Travel Guide Srebrenik

Srebrenik/Сребреник has a population of about 6,500, of which 90% are Bosniaks. It is the capital of the municipality of Srebrenik (39,000 inhabitants), in the canton of Tuzla. The town is 36 km northwest of Tuzla, 38 km southwest of Brčko and 42 km east of Doboj. Many bus connections to Tuzla, Doboj, Gračanica and Brčko.Famous for its fortress that saw the birth of the first king of Bosnia in the 14th century, Srebrenik is located in the valley of the Tinja River, a tributary of the Sava, between the small, isolated massifs of Majevica (916 m above sea level, east) and Trebava (692 m, west), the last foothills of the Dinaric Alps before the great Pannonian plain. The city itself is rather dull with its functional architecture inherited from the socialist period. It only really emerged after World War II, taking advantage of the creation of the Brčko-Banovići railroad and the road connecting the northern and southern parts of Croatia. If its name evokes the martyred city of Srebrenica (142 km to the southeast), it has in common with it only a mining past: srebro means "silver" in Proto-Slavic. During the 1992-1995 war, Srebrenik remained away from the fighting and was relatively spared from violence between communities, even if the Bosnian-Serb population was expelled. The landscapes of the surroundings are in any case superb. Since 1977, they are used as inspiration to the painters who come for the festival of art of Srebrenik in August-September.