Before the war, the second largest city in northern Bosnia. It had slightly more Muslims than Serbs. Most of the Muslim males were shipped to death camps.

Prijedor (Cyrillic: Приједор) is a town and municipality in northwestern Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, located on the Sana River, between Novi Grad and Banja Luka. Prijedor is second largest town in Republika Srpska after Banja Luka, .