BOSNA i HERCEGOVINA	BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA
entitet: Република Српска / Republika Srpska	entity: Republic of Srpska
Regija: Добој / Doboj

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Doboj (Serbian Cyrillic: Добој) is situated at an elevation of 146 m on the river Bosna in the north of Bosnia, about 70 km east of Banja Luka and about 102 km northwest of Sarajevo. It is the administrative centre of the Doboj region within the Republika Srpska. The municipality has a population of about 60,200 (2018) and the most important urban center in northern Republika Srpska.

Doboj was continuously inhabited ever since Neolithic times. The Illyrian tribe of Daesitates settled in this region as early as the twelfth century BC. After the Bellum Batonianum (6–9 AD), Roman legions permanently settled in the area. The oldest known written mention is found in a charter issued in 1415 in Dubrovnik. The Doboj fortress was first built in the early 13th century and then expanded in the early 15th century (1415) and again in 1490 during the Ottoman Empire. As an important border fortress between the Bosnian Kingdom and Hungary it was also frequently attacked in the Austro-Ottoman Wars, and finally fell to the Habsburgs in 1878. From 1929 to 1941, Doboj was part of the Vrbas Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Doboj was strategically important during the Bosnian War. In May 1992, the control of Doboj was held by Bosnian Serb forces and the Serb Democratic Party took over the governing of the city. What followed was a mass disarming and subsequently mass arrests of all non-Serb civilians (namely Bosniaks and Croats). After the Dayton Agreement and the peace following in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the city served as a major HQ/base for IFOR (later SFOR) units. Today, Doboj is the largest national railway junction; the operational base of the Railways Corporation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is located in Doboj.

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doboj, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doboj]