Banja Luka (bih)

Banja Luka

Banja Luka ranks 585th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Troyes, Hangzhou, and Kingdom of Portugal. Memorable people born in Banja Luka include Milorad Dodik, Mustafa Nadarević, and Vinko Puljić. Memorable people who died in Banja Luka include Momčilo Krajišnik, Jadranka Stojaković, and Marijan Beneš. Banja Luka has been the birth place of many soccer players, and handball players and the death place of many politicians, and musicians. Banja Luka is located in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Banja Luka or Banjaluka is the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the largest city of Republika Srpska, of which it is also the de facto capital. Banja Luka is the traditional centre of the densely-forested Bosanska Krajina region of northwestern Bosnia. According to the 2013 census, the city proper has a population of 138,963, while its administrative area comprises a total of 185,042 inhabitants. Read more on Wikipedia