Doboj East

Doboj East

Добој Исток
Doboj East Добој Исток
Municipality
	Location of Doboj East within Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Government
• Municipal mayor	Kemal Bratić (SDA)
Area
• Municipality	41 km2 (16 sq mi)
Population (2013 census)
• Municipality	10,248
• Density	250/km2 (600/sq mi)
• Urban	4,874
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code(s)	+387 35
Website	www.opcinadobojistok.ba

Doboj East (Serbian Cyrillic: Добој Исток) is a municipality located in Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was created after the Dayton peace agreement in 1998 by seceding from the municipality of Doboj. The seat of the municipality is the village of Klokotnica.

Geography[]

Doboj East is situated between the cities of Gračanica and Doboj, on the left side of the Spreča river, in the Spreča valley, surrounded by the Trebava mountain. It is mainly a rural municipality, densely populated and has a high birth rate.

Demographics[]

Settlements[]

It consists of the villages of: Brijesnica Mala, Brijesnica Velika, Klokotnica, Lukavica Rijeka, Sjenina Rijeka and Stanić Rijeka,

Population[]

Population of settlements – Doboj East municipality
	Settlement	1991.	2013.
	Total	7,969	10,866
1	Brijesnica Mala	1,530	1,764
2	Brijesnica Velika	1,771	1,872
3	Klokotnica	3,989	4,874
4	Lukavica Rijeka	983	1,037
5	Sjenina Rijeka		0
6	Stanić Rijeka		701

Ethnic composition[]

History[]

The area of present-day Doboj East was populated since the Middle Ages, and according to some written documents the first time Brijesnica Mala and Klokotnica were mentioned is in 1528. and Lukavica Rijeka and Stanić Rijeka in 1533.