Motike (Serbian Cyrillic: Мотике) is a village in the municipality of Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.[2]
Motike
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Coordinates: 44°49′20″N 17°08′17″E | |
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Municipality | Banja Luka |
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• Total | 2,622[1] |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
On 7 February 1942, Ustaše paramilitaries, led by a Franciscan monk, Miroslav Filipović (aka Tomislav Filipović-Majstorović), killed more than 2,300 Serbs (among them 500 children)[3] in Drakulić, Motike and Šargovac.
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