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Posušje

Posušje (pronounced [pɔ̌suːʃjɛ]) is a town and municipality in the West Herzegovina Canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina, near border with Croatia.

It lies in the Posuško polje, at an altitude of 675 m, at the intersection of the road from Split and Imotski in Croatia towards Tomislavgrad and Mostar.

The name Posušje is derived from suša (Croatian for drought). The area of Posušje was historically a dry area with water-supply problems. The problem was solved by building an artificial Tribistovo Lake in 1989.

According to the 2013 census, the population of Posušje town was 6,267.

Posušje is 29 km from Široki Brijeg, 54 km from Mostar, 10 km from Imotski and 71 km from Makarska in Croatia.

Posušje field is located at an altitude of about 610 m, Vir field at about 520 m, Rakitno at about 900 m, Pločno (peak of Čvrsnica mountain) is at 2228 m, and the area around the lake Blidinje 1050 meters and more.

There has been settlement in the area since pre-Slavic times when the Illyrians inhabited the region.

From the older (Paleolithic) and middle (Mesolithic) periods of Stone Age, the period of primitive man hunter and wild berries collector, in the area of Posušje municipality were not found traces of human beings.

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