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'Široki Brijeg' (Cyrillic: ''Широки Бријег'') is a town and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in northern Herzegovina.
In the 1991 census, the municipality of Široki Brijeg had 26,437 inhabitants: 26,231 Croats (99.2%), 147 Serbs (0.6%), 19 Yugoslavs (0.07%), 9 Bosniaks (0.03%), and 31 others (0.1%). The town itself had 6,864 inhabitants, 99.37% being Croats. Široki Brijeg has often been a hotbed for Croatian nationalism.
During the Second World War, it was the site of a massacre of a number of Franciscan friars at the hands of the Partisans. '(Citation needed.)' When the Partisans took full control of the town in 1945 it was renamed Lištica. In 1990, the town's name was again changed to Široki Brijeg.
The local football club is called NK Široki Brijeg, and the local basketball club is HKK Široki. Both these clubs are supported by local fans known as Škripari.
The town is the birthplace of the soccer player of the year in Austria Mario Bazina and popular Croatian singer Ivan Mikulic who appeared on the Eurovision Song Contest representing Croatia in 2004. The town is also the birthplace of former Croatian prime minister Gojko Šušak, a naturalised Canadian citizen. It holds a memorial football tournament in his honour each year. The town also hosts the Dani Filma (Days of Film) film festival.

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Twin cities

External links

Twin cities

★ Vinkovci, Croatia

External links

★ Official site

★ Široki Brijeg

★ Široki Brig Unofficial

★ http://www.siroki.info/

★ http://www.siroki-brijeg.com/