Šamac

Šamac, formerly called Bosanski Šamac, is a town and municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the right bank of the Sava river, with Slavonski Šamac in Croatia lying across the water. In 2013 the town had 5,390 inhabitants and the municipality 17,273. The modern town was founded in 1862 by Bosnian Muslim refugees expelled from the Sanjak of Smederevo and was first called Gornja Azizija after Sultan Abdulaziz. It later passed through Austro-Hungarian and Yugoslav rule and was occupied by Bosnian Serb forces in the early Bosnian War. The authorities of Republika Srpska dropped the word Bosanski from the name, and a court order later fixed the official name as simply Šamac. The local football club is FK Borac Šamac.