Zenica

Zenica is a city in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the valley of the Bosna river about 70 km north of Sarajevo, and the administrative and economic center of the Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is known for its ironworks and as a university center, and the football club Celik is one of its landmarks. The area was settled very early, with the earliest findings dating from 3000 to 2000 BC, and the Romans knew the place as the municipium of Bistua Nuova. The current name is first mentioned in 1415, and the town became largely Muslim during Ottoman rule from 1463 to 1878. Modern Zenica was mostly built in the Austro-Hungarian and Yugoslav periods. The municipality became the City of Zenica in 2014, and the 2013 census counted 70,553 people in the settlement itself and 110,663 in the administrative area, the fourth largest city in the country.