Bosansko Grahovo
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Bosansko Grahovo is a town and municipality in western Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located near the border with Croatia, near the towns of Drvar, Livno and Glamoč. Administratively it is part of the West Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In 1991, the municipality of Bosansko Grahovo had 23,855 residents, of which 19,624 Serbs (82.3%), 3,288 Bosniaks (13.8%), 486 Yugoslavs (2%), 264 Croats (1.1%), and 193 others (0.8%). The town of Grahovo itself had 3469 residents (94% Serbs, 3% Croats, 2% Yugoslavs).
Gavrilo Princip, the main perpetrator of the assassination in Sarajevo of 1914, was born in the village of Obljaj located just east of Bosansko Grahovo.
In the prelude to the Operation Storm, Croatian military operation in 1995, the army forces of the Bosnian Croats first invaded the area around Bosansko Grahovo in order to be able to encroach on Knin and other areas of former Republic of Serbian Krajina.