Banja Luka

Banja Luka is The largest and the capital of the Serbian and the second largest in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In today's political-territorial organization of the Republic of Serbian, which is composed of municipalities and cities, the city of Banja Luka is the biggest political-territorial unit, with 1239 km ² and is the political, administrative, financial, academic and cultural center of the Serbian Republic.

Banja Luka was once a strong economic center with 63,000 employees and advanced machinery, textile, food, wood processing and electric.

In this city and its surroundings are intertwined in various cultures, traditions and influences. All this has influenced the architecture of certain parts of the city, but also a large number of cultural and historical monuments of different epochs and witnesses of human creativity.

Because of the many green areas (parks and alleys), Banja Luka is known as a town green.

Banja Luka is located on the banks of the Vrbas River, where the river loses its characteristics of mountain rivers and enters the plain on its way to the confluence of the Sava. Much of the Banja Luka area belongs to the Vrbas, a small part of the West Basin Gomjenice. Vrbas flows in mid-town and inner-city area receives tributaries Suturliju, Crkvena and Vrbanja.

The central part of town lies at an altitude of 163 mi surrounded by Tertiary hills. According to various geomorphological, geological and hydro-graphic features that are important for the location of existing and future units of the city, the area of Banja Luka can be divided into four parts: a flat bottom valleys, alluvial terraces, hills that surround the basin and the Dinaric Alps in the south. In the southwest area rises Mount Manjaca, and in the southeast mountains Čemernica.

The town, following the flow of the Vrbas, developed downstream, and residential areas that were built after the Second World War and the earthquake 1969th they have developed in the width of the hills surrounding the Banja Luka.

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