Teslić ( sr-cyrl, Теслић) is a town and municipality located in Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in the central part of the Republika Srpska, on the banks of

Usora River Usora ( sr-cyrl, Усора) is a river in central-northern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It begins at the confluence of two smaller Usora rivers, Mala Usora and Velika Usora, at the town of Teslić. Usora runs for some 20 km northeast of Teslić, ...

. As of 2013, the town has a population of 7,518 inhabitants, while the municipality has 38,536 inhabitants. About to the south-east from the city center there is a location of medieval

tombstones of Duke Momčilo The Tombstones of Duke Momčilo are a group of three medieval tombstones about 5 km to the South-East from the center of Teslić in Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes ca ...

. Also,

Solila Solila is a town in Haute Matsiatra Region in central Madagascar. It is some 30 kilometres west of Fianarantsoa. It lies at the Mananantanana The Mananantanana is a river in Haute Matsiatra region, is located in eastern Madagascar. It flows int ...

is located on the Borja Mountain.

History

The town was settled in the 19th century with the first industrialization of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Main industries are wood products and the chemical industry. Long before Teslić began to rise a nearby village called

Čečava Čečava (Serbian Cyrillic: Чечава) is a village in the municipality of Teslić, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ethnic composition, 1991 census total: 2,616 * Serbs - 2,503 (95.68%) * Yugoslavs - 54 (2.06%) * Croats - 36 (1.37%) * others and unkn ...

existed as one of the oldest places people inhabited, there is archaeological evidence that Čečava existed as early as the 10th century. From 1929 to 1941, Teslić was part of the Vrbas Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Teslić was until the late 1950s among the largest industrial centers in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Today Teslić industry is mostly based on the production of wood, milk, clothing, telecommunications, electro industry, metallic industry and building construction. Teslić is also known as a tourist destination, mainly because of the Banja Vrućica, а health spa for healing cardio-vascular diseases. With a complex of five hotels and a capacity of over 1000 beds, Banja Vrućica has the biggest tourist capacity in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The nearby mountain Borja is an attractive tourist destination with two hotels and sports facilities.

Demographics

According to the 2013 census results, the municipality of Teslić has a population of 38,536 inhabitants.

Population

Ethnic composition

Economy

The following table gives a preview of total number of registered people employed in legal entities per their core activity (as of 2018):

Notable people

Brock Bierman and Zeljka Cvijanovic at USAID - 2020 (cropped)

Borki Predojević Borki Predojević ( sr-cyrl, Борки Предојевић; born 6 April 1987 in Teslić) is a Bosnian chess grandmaster, the youngest ever from his country. He is the No. 1 ranked player of Bosnia and Herzegovina as of February 2021. Early ...

, professional chess player * Dragan Blatnjak, footballer *

Vladimir Petrović Vladimir Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Владимир Петровић, ; born 1 July 1955) is a Serbian football manager and former player. He is widely known domestically by his nickname Pižon ( sr, Пижон), after the French for ''pigeon''. C ...

, footballer * Željka Cvijanović, President of Republika Srpska *

Dragan Bogdanic Dragan Bogdanic (born 5 July 1965 in Teslic, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian Serb politician and Health Minister of Republika Srpska since 2013. Previously, he was a CEO of Banja Vrucica, a medical center in B ...

, Minister of Health and Social Welfare of Republika Srpska

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Teslic Populated places in Teslić Spa towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina