Posavina

{{for|other meanings|Posavina (disambiguation)}} [[Image:Savarivermap.png|thumb|200px|right|Map of the Sava river basin; Posavina constitutes the inner regions near Sava itself]] '''Posavina''' ({{lang-hr|Posavina}}, {{lang-sr|Посавина}} or {{lang|sr|''Posavina''}}, and {{lang-bs|Bosanska Posavina}}) is a Slavic name for the region of the [[Sava (river)|Sava]] river basin in [[Croatia]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], and [[Serbia]] that is adjacent or near the Sava river itself. ==History== In the first half of the 18th century, [[Sava]]-[[Danube]] (Posavina-[[Podunavlje]]) section of the [[Habsburg Monarchy|Habsburg]] [[Military Frontier]] existed in the area. Posavina segment of the Frontier comprised parts of the [[Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia]] - the southern parts of [[Slavonia]] and [[Syrmia]], stretching from [[Nova Gradiška]] to the confluence of the [[Drina]] river into the Sava. Between 1929 and 1939, one of the provinces of the [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]] was known as the Croatian region [[Sava Banovina]]. The capital city of the province was [[Zagreb]] in [[Croatia]]. In 1939, Sava Banovina was merged with [[Littoral Banovina]] to form new [[Banovina of Croatia]]. Today, one of the counties in [[Croatia]] is named [[Brod-Posavina county]] and one of the cantons in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] is named [[Posavina Canton]]. ===Yugoslav breakup and wars=== Before the [[Yugoslav wars]], [[Croats]] made the majority of the population in Bosnian Posavina. According to the pre-war 1991 census was inhabited by 260,793 people: * [[Croats]] : 131,542 or 51% * [[Serbs]] : 77,723 or 29% * [[Bosniaks]]: 18,726 or 12% The Bosnian Posavina region was gravely hit by the [[war in Bosnia and Herzegovina]] (1992-1995) to the point that parts of it had become uninhabited{{Fact|date=September 2009}}, as almost all the houses were plundered, burnt or destroyed. Only a few percent of people have returned to their homes. The majority of refugees live in and around the city of [[Slavonski Brod]], [[Croatia]] right across the [[Sava River]], while a minority emigrated to the [[European Union]] countries, the [[United States]], and [[Australia]]. ==Cities and towns in Posavina== Cities and towns in Croatia: *[[Zaprešić]] *[[Samobor]] *[[Zagreb]] the capital of [[Croatia]] *[[Dugo Selo]] *[[Ivanić grad]] *[[Sisak]] *[[Novska]] *[[Nova Gradiška]] *[[Slavonski Brod]] *[[Županja]] Cities and towns in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]: *[[Derventa]] *[[Orašje]] *[[Brčko (city)|Brčko]] *[[Gradiška, Bosnia and Herzegovina|Gradiška]] *[[Brod, Bosnia and Herzegovina|Brod]] *[[Šamac]] *[[Odžak]] Cities and towns in Serbia: *[[Sremska Mitrovica]] *[[Šabac]] *[[Obrenovac]] *[[Belgrade]], the capital of [[Serbia]] ==See also== * [[Posavina Canton]] * [[Brod-Posavina county]] * [[Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] {{Geographical regions of Croatia}} {{Geographical regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina}} {{Geographical regions of Serbia}} {{coord missing|Croatia}}