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Banja Luka
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Ban·ja Lu·ka  (bäny lk)
A city of north-central Bosnia and Herzegovina northwest of Sarajevo. Ruled at various times by Turkey and Austria, Banja Luka became part of Yugoslavia after World War I. Population: 221,000.
Banja Luka (Serbo-Croat) [ˈbaːnjaː ˌluːka]
n
(Placename) a city in NW Bosnia-Herzegovina, on the Vrbas River: scene of battles between the Austrians and Turks in 1527, 1688, and 1737; besieged by Serb forces (1992-95). Pop.: 160 000 (1997 est.)
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Kelly Smith and Kinder McKenna Banya Luka Medical Centre BLMF, Op Palatine BFPO 553 WE ARE a bunch of squaddies stuck in an isolated part of Bosnia for the winter.
Readers' letters: Dear Jo by Dipple, Jo / The Mirror (London, England)
The human pieces on the Banya Luka road were shovelled into a bin liner by a mournful Serb who muttered lines from Camus' The Plague as he did it, soliloquised like an over-analytic Hamlet over the first two beers afterwards, and damned the Muslims to hell over the third.
Bosnia: on the dangerous edge of things by Foster, Charles / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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