Dubica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dubica, known in Serbian as Kozarska Dubica and formerly as Bosanska Dubica, is a town and municipality in Republika Srpska, one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the 2013 census the municipality held 21,542 inhabitants, of whom 11,566 lived in the town itself, and it covers about 499 square kilometres in the eastern part of the Bosanska Krajina region. It lies on the right bank of the Una river, with Hrvatska Dubica in Croatia to the north and Gradiska, Kostajnica and Prijedor as its other neighbours. The place is first recorded in 1258 as a castrum, came under Ottoman rule in 1538 and served as a border fortress, and was the scene of the Dubica War of 1788 to 1791. The Serbian Orthodox Mostanica Monastery appears on its coat of arms.