-The concept of the city is often identified as a larger settlement in which the majority.
population lives and is engaged in non-agricultural activities: handicrafts, trade, industry, etc.
-During the second half of the fourteenth and early fifteenth century, is the starting phase of.
distinctly urban development in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the emergence and development of several small city village. This development was caused by the rapid development of commodity-money economy (exploitation mineral resources: mercury, lead, iron and partly of gold and copper; manufacturing, trade, etc.). This is mainly on a number of smaller urban settlements that were created with the mines or in near them. Dynamic development of mining encourage the development of export trade and the emergence of larger number of smaller urban settlements that arise along the natural road to the Adriatic coast. The largest of these grow in traffic and trade hub of regional significance.
-Intensive urbanization, the result of complex actions of a number of factors (the development of economic, administrative, political, cultural and educational and other activities), resulted in the development of multifunctional cities which then Europe did not know. Of course, this was in line with strong organization of Turkish feudal system and outstanding geographical position and strategic importance of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the territorial part of the Ottoman Empire. Traces of the Turkish period urbanization are still visible today, both in morphology and in the spatial structure Bosnian cities.
-Period until the end of Ottoman rule (1878) was marked by stagnation and regress the city.
economy, and thus the urban settlements.
-The inclusion of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the end of XIX century. c. within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy represents a significant stage in the development of urban centers and urbanization in general.