Šargovac

Šargovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Шарговац) is a village in the municipality of Banja Luka (present-day Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina).^[2]

Šargovac Шарговац (Serbian)
Village (Selo)
Construction of the Orthodox Church in Šargovac
Šargovac
Coordinates: 44°49′50″N 17°10′54″E
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity	Republika Srpska
Municipality	Banja Luka
Population  (2013)
• Total	3,171[1]
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

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.^[3]