Brčko
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Brčko (Bosnian:Brčko/Брчко, Serbian: Брчко) is a city in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Brčko is the seat of the Brčko District, an independent unit of local self-government created on the territory of Republika Srpska and Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina following an arbitration process set up by the Dayton Peace Accords. The local administration is aided by an international supervisory regime headed by Susan Johnson of the United States of America.
Brčko has the largest port in Bosnia, on the Sava river. It is also home to an economics faculty and to a rather important theater festival. Before the war, the Municipality of Brčko had 87,332 inhabitants (1991 census), 45% of whom were Bosniaks, 25% Croats, 21% Serbs, 6% Yugoslavs and 3% others. According to the former mayor Branko Damjanac, the current population is 40% Serbs, 39% Bosniaks and 20% Croats. The Brčko District covers an area of 208 km² and has around 80,000 inhabitants.
The city's most famous citizen is Lepa Brena (real name Fahreta Jahić Živojinović), a Bosnian and Serbian popular folk music singer.
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