Under the "Law on Territorial Organization and Local Self-Government" adopted in 1994, Republika Srpska was divided into 80 municipalities. After the conclusion of the Dayton Peace Agreement, the law was amended in 1996 to reflect the changes to the entity's borders and now provides for the division of Republika Srpska into 64 municipalities.
The following list includes 64 municipalities of Republika Srpska (with population data from 2013 census):
The Law on Territorial Organization and Local Self-Government was amended in 1996 to provide that certain municipalities whose territory was now completely or partially located in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina would "temporarily stop functioning." In addition, the parts of these former municipalities that were located in Republika Srpska (if any) were incorporated into other municipalities.
The following are the former municipalities of Republika Srpska:
In 1993, the Law on the Serb City of Sarajevo during the State of War or Immediate Danger of War was adopted providing that Serb Sarajevo (later IstoÃÂno Sarajevo) consisted of the following municipalities: Centar, Hadà ¾iÃÂi, Ilidà ¾a, Ilijaà ¡, Novo Sarajevo, Stari Grad, Rajlovac, Vogoà ¡ÃÂa, and Trnovo. Ilidà ¾a, Hadà ¾iÃÂi, Ilijaà ¡, Rajlovac, and Vogoà ¡ÃÂa were incorporated into the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The city now consists of the following six municipalities: Srpska Ilidà ¾a (name replaced by "Kasindo" in 2004), Srpsko Novo Sarajevo (name replaced by "Lukavica" in 2004), Pale, Sokolac, Srpski Stari Grad (name replaced by "IstoÃÂni Stari Grad" in 2004), and Trnovo.
In 1996, the name "Serb City of Sarajevo" was changed to "City of Srpsko Sarajevo". In 2004, the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina decided that the temporary name of the city would be decided that the former name of the city "be temporary replaced" with the name "City of IstoÃÂno (East) Sarajevo".
A significant portion of the BrÃÂko District (48% of its area) was created from territory of Republika Srpska (). RS controlled this territory until March 8, 2000 (see the History and Mandate of the OHR North/Brcko). The BrÃÂko District was created as a shared territory, a condominium, of both entities (RS and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina), but it was not placed under control of either, and is hence under direct jurisdiction of Bosnia and Herzegovina. RS's authorities never officially accepted the BrÃÂko Arbitration result, but the official decision about jurisdiction remains.