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Medjugorje is a town located in western Bosnia & Herzegovina, in the Herzegovina region around 25 km southwest of Mostar and close to the border of Croatia. Today the town is best known due to claims of apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to six Croats since 24 June 1981, and is now visited by thousands of pilgrims from around the world as a Marian shrine. The shrine is not officially recognised by the Catholic Church, making it one of the world's largest illicit Catholic shrines.
The name Medjugorje literally means an area "between mountains". At an altitude of 200 metres above sea level it has a mild Mediterranean climate. The town consists of an ethnically-homogeneous Croat population of over 4000. The Roman Catholic parish (local administrative and religious area) consists of five neighbouring villages, Medjugorje, Bijakovici, Vionica, Miletina and Surmanci.
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