The famous Serbian linguist, Vuk Karadžić mentions: "Slatina is a place where the salty and sour water springs, so the cattle come and lick it and that is why the villages are so named.

From the material evidents from that period, the most important is a tombstone, found in the 1830s, near the Old Church in the village of Malo Blaško, near Slatina.

The Marl Board has engraved decorations and an inscription in Glagolitic in three rows (here in Cyrilic): Мартин лежи Василев син се писа Миле с(и)н.

In the period of the Ottoman rule, it is known that there were great oppression of the local people and well-known families of landowners were Karabegović and Silahić, especially a man, Mehmed Čardžić stood out.

[citation needed] According to the Extensive census of the Bosnian Sandžak from the year of 1604, it is known that place had 36 houses, which paid a total tax of 8.090 akča.

According to the records of the priest, Stevan Davidović, from the year 1886: "60 years ago ... a Turk, Mehmed Čardžić, came from Banjaluka and for one night, he fenced a huge space around the spa which raja (oppressed local people) later cleared and he appropriated it to himself, without any rights, so that now entire that land around the baths (thermal pools) is his".

In 1909 started the building of Volksbad – the public pool with the separated entrances and locker rooms for men and women.

[5] In that period, the first hotels were built - Mehmed Čardžić's, Luka Kuruzović's, Đorđe Avdalović's and more modern The State Hotel with a restaurant (1897), the first postcards of Slatina (1900), the school (1912), Serbian cultural and educational Association Prosvjeta from Sarajevo Board – Blaško-Slatina (1913), as well as a weather station (1905, worked until 1934).

In the first tourist guide book (1938) is mentioned, that there is a good bus transportation from Banjaluka (the city) via Slatina to Klašnice, Bosanska Gradiška (Bosnian Gradiška), Okučani or Prnjavor, Derventa, Bosanski Brod (Bosnian Brod), as well as to Jajce and Sarajevo.

A large number of the playing orchestres was formed by the local people and when it was organized, there were dances in all of the hotels in Slatina.

[7] In the municipality of Slatina, county of Banjaluka, catholic Anton Petelin set fire to the Serbian Orthodox Church.

[5] Slatina entered in the 21st century with solid tourist capacities, although the weakening of the tourism is visible, comparing with the Golden Age in the 1930s.

With the arrival of the new decades of the 21st century, tourism in Slatina, as well as the spa resort itself, is revitalising and becoming one of the leading ones of its sort in the Republic of Srpska.

The place is characterized by unpolluted nature, numerous picnic areas and recreation zones, of which the biggest and the most famous is The Slatina Forest Park.

Every summer there is a manifestation Dan jagode (The Strawberry Day), which gathers hunderts of young people, who compete in different disciplines.

[11] In honor of Slovenes who migrated to Slatina in the period between the two world wars, there is Slovenian Day, organized in June.