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BANJALUKA (sometimes written BANIALUKA, or BAINALUKA) , the See also:capital of a See also:district bearing the same name, in Bosnia. Pop. (1895) 13,666, of whom about 7000 were Moslems. Banjaluka lies on the See also:river Vrbas, and at the See also:terminus of a military railway which meets the Hungarian See also:state See also:line at Jasenovac, 30 M. N.N.W. Banjaluka is the seat of See also:Roman See also:Catholic and Orthodox bishops, a district See also:court, and an See also:Austrian See also:garrison. It is at the See also:head of a narrow See also:defile, shut in by steep hills on the See also:east and See also:west but expanding on the See also:north to meet the valley of the See also:Save. A small stream called the Crkvina enters the Vrbas from the north-east and in the See also:angle thus formed stand the citadel and See also:barracks, with the 16th-See also:century Ferhadiya Jamia, largest and most beautiful of more than 40 mosques in the See also:city. The celebrated Roman See also:baths are all in ruins, except one massive, domed See also:building, dating from the 6th century and still in use, although See also:modern baths are also open, for the development of the hot springs. Other noteworthy buildings are the Franciscan and Trappist monasteries, a girls' school, belonging to the Sisterhood of the Sacred See also:Blood of See also:Nazareth, a real-school and a See also:Turkish See also:bazaar. See also:Coal, See also:iron, See also:silver and other minerals are found in the adjoining hills; and the city possesses a See also:government See also:tobacco factory, a brewery, See also:cloth-See also:mills, See also:gunpowder-mills, a See also:model See also:farm and many See also:corn-mills, worked by the two rapid See also:rivers. Banjaluka is probably the Roman fort, marked, in the Tabula Peutingeriana, as Castra, on the river Urbanus and the road from Salona on the Adriatic to Servitium in See also:Pannonia.

The origin of its later name, meaning the " Baths of St See also:

Luke," is uncertain. In the 15th century, the fall of See also:Jajce, a See also:rival stronghold 22 M. S., led to the rapid rise of Banjaluka, which was thenceforward the See also:scene of many encounters between Austrians and See also:Turks; notably in 1527, 1688 and 1737. No Bosnian city had greater prosperity or importance in the last See also:half of the 18th century. In 1831, Hussein See also:Aga Borberli, called the " See also:Dragon of Bosnia," or Zmaj Bosanski, set forth from Banjaluka on his See also:holy See also:war against the See also:sultan Mahmud II.

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