Cetingrad is underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as the First Category Area of Special State Concern by the Government of Croatia.

In next centuries Cetin was part of Military Frontier, the borderland between Habsburg monarchy and Ottoman Empire.

In 1790 Austrian troops under the command of general Walisch finally returned back Cetin Castle to the Habsburg monarchy.

[7] In 1809 Ottoman forces once again occupied Cetin but in 1810 they withdrew under the threats of Marshal Marmont, governor-general of Illyrian provinces.

[citation needed] Due to poverty population was forced to migrate, first overseas and later to European countries.

[5][6] In May 1995, Cetingrad was the site of a helicopter crash, caused by a missile fired by Serbs, in which the foreign minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Irfan Ljubijankić and six others were killed.