Šargovac
Šargovac
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Construction of the Orthodox Church in Šargovac | |
| Coordinates: 44°49′50″N 17°10′54″E / 44.83056°N 17.18167°E | |
| Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Entity | Republika Srpska |
| Municipality | Banja Luka |
| Population (2013) | |
• Total | 3,171 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Šargovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Шарговац) is a village in the municipality of Banja Luka (present-day Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina).
During World War II, on 7 February 1942, Ustaše paramilitaries, led by a Franciscan friar, Miroslav Filipović (aka Tomislav Filipović-Majstorović), killed more than 2,300 Serbs (among them 500 children) in Drakulić, Motike, and Šargovac.