Science Fair Project Encyclopedia Tuzla is a city in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. At the time of the 1991 census, it had 131,000
inhabitants. Taking the influx of refugees into accuont, the
city is currently estimated to have 160,000 inhabitants. After
Sarajevo and Banja Luka, Tuzla is the third largest city in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the seat of the Tuzla Canton and
Tuzla Municipality. Tuzla is located in the northeastern part of
Bosnia, settled just underneath the Majevica mountain, on the
Jala river. The central zone lies in an east-west oriented
plain, with residential areas in the north and south of the city
located on the Ilinčica, Kicelj and Gradina hills. The climate
is moderate continental. First mentioned in 950 as a county
under Hungarian rule, the town was later referred to by
historians as Soli. Soli means "salts" in the Bosnian language,
and the city's present name means "place of salt" in Turkish.
However, there is enough archaeologic evidence to suggest that
Tuzla was a rich neolithic settlemen