City (pop., 1997 est.: 160,000), northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It was an important military centre under the Turks and the seat (15831639) of the Bosnian territory governed by a pasha. A battlefield between the Austrians and Turks in the 16th18th centuries, it played an important part in the 19th-century Bosnian uprisings against Turkey as well as in the revolts of the Serbs. It was a hub of resistance in the Axis-dominated country of Croatia during World War II. In 1992 it became the capital of the autonomous Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was the site of much fighting during the Bosnian conflict .