DO YOU KNOW HOW THE BORIK SETTLEMENT IN BANJA LUKA WAS FORMED?

Residents of Banja Luka, especially those who have been walking the streets of the city on the Vrbas River since birth, greet every story related to the beauty of Krajina with special emotions.

PHOTO: Tomas Damjanović

"Memories awaken, the most beautiful days come back to life... Days of youth, carefree days..."

A story on social media supports this sentiment. Namely, on the Facebook page "Old Banja Luka," a text titled "How the Borik settlement was formed" was published, and many Banja Luka residents couldn't resist commenting. Mostly, they spoke nostalgically about the topic of this Facebook story.

"The city of youth, as Banja Luka was once called, was left without young people for the first time because elementary and high school students were transported by buses to all the cities of the former Yugoslavia, where they finished the school year. After the earthquake, the construction of all residential areas of the city began, which is still recognizable today. Many cities of the former Yugoslavia showed solidarity in construction. The foundation stone for the construction of the Banja Luka settlement Borik was laid on April 1, 1970. Thus, from the cabbage field, instead of cabbage, a new residential area Borik emerged."

"The first settlers moved to the new settlement as early as 1971. As Borik grew, so did some new kids in it."

These words on social media were written about the origin of Banja Luka's Borik, and then its residents joined the "discussion." In addition to numerous comments such as "Bravo," "That's right," "It used to be good! The neighborhood of my childhood," one comment caught the most attention.

"As it is about Banja Luka, please be precise and polite, no inaccuracies. The cabbage field is in the Regulatory Plan Center-East, the Local Community Center East, and I know this because I worked at the Urban Planning Institute Banja Luka and I am a native Banja Luka resident. More precisely, it is Ulica Srpska behind the Manja bakery, where the small park is located. There were wooden barracks where people who had their gardens lived, and most of them planted cabbage and lived off it. That's why that place in the city is called 'cabbage field.' I'm really sorry that I don't have a photo of the cabbage field on my Facebook profile. As I grew up in the Borik neighborhood, it's an insult to me, so I had to write this, and I ask you to understand me."

This comment, once again, showed how much the residents of the beautiful Krajina love their city. They all want to set the record straight and preserve the "dignity" of their Banja Luka.