Gorazde, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Goražde is a city in eastern Bosnia. It is located between Foča, Sokolac and Visegrad, and is administratively part of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the center of the Bosnian Podrinje Canton.

In 1991, the municipality of Goražde was inhabited by 37,505 people: 26316 Bosniaks, 9844 Serbs, 776 Yugoslavs, 83 Croats and 486 others. The town of Goražde itself had 18,751 residents.

During the 1990s Bosnian war, Goražde was a Bosniak enclave surrounded and besieged by the Bosnian Serbs. In the end it was to become the only town in eastern Bosnia not to be ethnically cleansed by the Serbs in eastern Bosnia.

References

• Joe Sacco: Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995, 2002, Fantagraphics Books, ISBN 1560974702