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Ajka Lokmic
Ajka Lokmic
Birth: 4 May 1914
Bosanski Samac, Austria-Hungary (present-day Samac, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Age: 109 years, 350 days
Country: Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIH
Centenarian

Ajka Lokmic [Bosnian: Ajka Lokmić] (born 4 May 1914) is a Bosnian centenarian who is currently the oldest living person in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Biography[]

Ajka Lokmic was born in Bosanski Samac, Austria-Hungary (present-day Samac, Bosnia and Herzegovina) on 4 May 1914. At the age of three, she lost her parents, so she and her siblings were raised by their eldest brother Ibrahim in Sarajevo.

At the age of 24, she married Nurije Lokmic. The couple had four children: Zumreta, Zineta, Nurudin, and Semsudin.

As of May 2014, she had seven grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

She became the oldest known living person in Bosnia and Herzegovina, following the death of 108-year-old Muska Porobic on 12 March 2021.

On 21 March 2023, she was visited by the mayor of Stari Grad, Sarajevo, Ibrahim Hadzibajric, and presented her with a certificate of the plaque of the oldest living person in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Ajka Lokmic currently lives in Stari Grad, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the age of 109 years, 350 days. She is currently the oldest known woman ever from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the second-oldest known person ever from Bosnia and Herzegovina, behind Jovan Jovanovic.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (VE)

Luca BulicMilusa Andjelic • Safa DedicAnica RadmilovicMara Kvrgic • Jovan JovanovicDragoljub GalicMuska PorobicAjka Lokmic

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