Drvar

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | 441 words | Copyright

Drvar, Bosnia and Herzegovina Titov Drvar Derived from the Serbo‐Croat drva ‘firewood’, a reference to the locals chopping trees to make logs for use in the bitter winters. After the Second World War each of the Yugoslav republics named a town in honour of Josip Broz Tito^†. Thus Drvar gained the additional Titov ‘Tito's’. It was dropped after Bosnia and Herzegovina became independent in 1992.

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