In Maglaj 1998 Eldin won 2nd place jury prize for best music at the festival, “Tamo Gdje Ljubav Počinje (Where Love Begins)”.
Before the war, the Bosna river was heavily polluted due to heavy industrial activity at the nearby Natron paper and pulp factory, as well as steel and wood industry factories in the southern cities of Zenica and Zavidovići respectively.
He had finished four grades of elementary school in Maglaj, then he attended the Jesuits' minor seminary in Travnik where he finished elementary school and gymnasium.
Croatian historian Luka Jelić wrote the mountain was located either between Maglaj and Skender Vakuf, northwest of Žepče, or it was the mountain Borovina located between Vranica and Radovan, according to Ferdo Šišić's 1908 work.
In 2001 the following Croatian villages from the municipalities of Maglaj and Zavidovići merged with the municipality of Žepče to form one entity with Croatian majority: Adže, Pire, Ponijevo, Matina, Ljubatovići, Grabovica, Čustovo Brdo, Komšići, Radunice, Globarica, Brankovići, Donji Lug, Gornji Lug, Vrbica, Debelo Brdo, Osova, Vinište and Gornja Lovnica.