tories were add for the manufacture of engine turbos and manufacture of parts for the Mercedes Benz OM-360 engine that was built under licence.
War in Bosnia
During 1991 and 1992, as the tensions rose in the run up to the Bosnian War, the Pale region became the an administrative center of the nascent breakaway Republika Srpska. It would remain a center of activity for the Serb forces during the Siege of Sarajevo.
The town became the nominal administrative headquarters of the Bosnian Serb government, while Banja Luka became the defacto capital. Pale remained an important cultural center with a collection of cultural and informational institutions such as the news agency SRNA, TV Station Canal S, Newspapers "Javnost" and "Ognjista" based there.
Post Dayton
The Bosnian War ended with the signing of the Dayton Peace accords on December 14, 1995.
With the war at the end the town return to some sort of normalcy. As the Constitution of Republika Srpska sets out that Sarajevo is the capital of Republika Srpska which was recognized as an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Dayton Peace Agreement. The administrative capital has now transferred to Banja Luka
