Administrativno-teritorijalne promjene u Hercegovini od 1945. do 1966. godine
Adminstrative – territorial changes in Herzegovina from 1945 to 1966

Summary/Abstract: In the period of building of the state socialist system, the Yugoslav authority changed the administrative and territorial organization of the country many times. The first moves in that direction were done immediately after the Second World War, on the 16thof August 1945 when the Presidency of the National Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina passed the Law on territorial division of Federal Bosnia and Herzegovina into regions, districts and areas of local national councils. According to this law, Bosnia and Herzegovina was divided into 7 regions and Herzegovinian regions had 12 districts. The following year, a Law on Changes and Additions to the Law on territorial division of Federal Bosnia and Herzegovina into regions, districts and areas of local national councils was passed and regulated the formation of the thirteenth Ostrožac district with the seat in Ostrožac within the Herzegovinian region. With the new Law on the administrative - territorial division from 1949, People’s Republic Bosnia and Herzegovina was divided into four regions and the Mostar region included 13 districts. In 1950 the Presidency of the National Assembly of People’s Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaimed a new Law on the administrative and territorial division of Bosnia and Herzegovina according to which the Mostar region now included 14 districts and 165 local national councils. In 1952, the National Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina passed and proclaimed a new Law on the division of People’s Republic Bosnia and Herzegovina. This law abolished the existing regions, and the new administrative – territorial division was introduced into 66 districts, 5 towns (1 on the territory of Herzegovina –Mostar) and 418 municipalities of which 53 were town municipalities and 8 of them on the territory of Herzegovina. With this division of 1952, the territory of Herzegovina covered 14 districts. In 1955 the National Assembly of People’s Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, passed a new Law on the area of districts and municipalities in People’s Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the session of the Republican Council. According to this law Bosnia and Herzegovina was administratively and territorially organized into 15 districts. In the area of Herzegovina, two districts were formed –Mostar and Trebinje. The new administrative and territorial division was adopted in 1958 when a new Law on areas of districts and municipalities in People’s Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina was passed. According to this Law the districts of Derventa, Trebinje and Zvornik were abolished, so that People’s Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina was now divided into 12 districts. According to this law, the district of Mostar had 17 municipalities.

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