There were some big political, economic, demographic and administrative changes in
Bosnia and Herzegovina primarily caused by the war in the period from 1992 to 1995
Bosnia and Herzegovina is divided into two entities – the Federation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina and Republic of Srpska. The entity’s boundary did not respect the boundaries
of settlements system, and did not respect the boundaries of the settlements itself as the
network of settlements, which led to the division of settlements between the two entities.
It was perhaps one of the biggest problems when it comes to the data comparability of
population census in 1991 and 2013. It can be said that it is almost impossible to
determine which number of inhabitants of these divided settlements in 1991 lived on the
territory of the Republic of Srpska and which lived in the Federation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina. Major changes and disintegration settlements occurred in the area of the
capital city of the Bosnia and Herzegovina- Sarajevo, where, in 1992, the city of East
Sarajevo is founded. The work will present the kind of changes that occurred at the area
of Sarajevo – East Sarajevo, what happened to the settlement system and how it creates
problems regarding the comparability of the census. The aim is to point out the level of
disintegration of settlements in the researched area.
