Location of Šamac within Bosnia and Herzegovina |Country||Bosnia
and Herzegovina| |- Mayor||Savo Minić (SNSD) | |Time zone||CET
(UTC+1)| |- Summer (DST)||CEST (UTC+2)| Šamac (Cyrillic: Шамац)
or Bosanski Šamac (Cyrillic: Босански Шамац), is a town and
municipality in Republika Srpska, in the northern part of Bosnia
and Herzegovina, located on the right bank of the Sava river.
Across the river is Slavonski Šamac in Croatia. The city was
part of the old Ottoman province of Bosnia by the time it was
incorporated in the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of 19th
century. After the I World War, the city passed to part of the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From 1929 to 1939, it was part of Drina
Banovina; and from 1939 until 1941 it was part of the Banovina
of Croatia. During World War II, Bosanski Šamac, as all the rest
of Bosnia-Herzegovina, was included into Nazi-controlled
Independent State of Croatia. After 1945, the city was
reintegrated within the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and
Herzegovina in Tito's Yugoslavia. In