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 Bosnia and Herzegovina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While those living in Bosnia were from 1908 officially in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, South Slavs in Serbia and elsewhere were calling for a South Slav state; World War I began with the assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, the assassin was Gavrilo Princip, a member of the "Mlada Bosna" organization.
On November 21, 1995, in Dayton, Ohio, presidents of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Alija Izetbegović), Croatia (Franjo Tuđman), and Serbia (Slobodan Milošević) signed a peace agreement that brought a halt to the three years of war in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (the final agreement was signed in Paris on 14 December 1995).
The Dayton Agreement succeeded in ending the bloodshed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it institutionalized the division between the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Muslim and Croat entity - Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (51% of the territory), and the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Serb entity - Republika Srpska (49%).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bosnia   (2068 words)

  
 Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The remainder of the flag is medium blue with seven full five-pointed white stars and two half stars top and bottom along the hypotenuse of the triangle.
The three points of the triangle are understood to stand for the three nations of Bosnia: Croats, Bosniaks, and Serbs.
Bosnia-Herzegovina's first flag of independence has a fleur-de-lys, a coat of arms taken from the first Bosnian king from 14 century Tvrtko Kotromanic that was deemed too specific to the Bosniaks, which is why it was replaced with the current flag.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina   (351 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia and Montenegro have delimited about half of their boundary, but sections along the Drina River remain in dispute; discussions continue with Croatia on problem sections of the Una River and villages at the base of Mount Pljesevica.
Bosnia and Herzegovina were annexed to Serbia as part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes on Oct. 26, 1918.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Economy - Economy Never particularly robust, Bosnia and Herzegovina's economy was shattered by the civil war...
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107349.html   (1666 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia may be regarded as a succession of great terraces, but Herzegovina, in which the mountain sides slope down towards the Narenta River, has more the shape of a basin.
Bosnia was also, in consequence of the physcal formationn of the land, frequently divided into two parts, the upper or mountainous Bosnia, which extended to where the rivers pass into the flat country of the Save, and the Bosnian plain along the Save.
In 968 however, Bosnia was conquered by the Croatian king Kresimir and in 1019 the whole north-western part of the Balkan Peninsula came under the sway of the Eastern Roman Emperor, Basil II.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02694a.htm   (4064 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Europe - Pictures, Travel, Sites and Maps
Bosnia and Herzegovina ranked next to The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as the poorest republic in the old Yugoslav federation.
Although agriculture is almost all in private hands, farms are small and inefficient, and the republic traditionally is a net importer of food.
Bosnia and Herzegovina's declaration of sovereignty in October 1991, was followed by a declaration of independence from the former Yugoslavia on 3 March 1992 after a referendum boycotted by ethnic Serbs.
bosnia.europe-countries.com   (3103 words)

  
 Governments on the WWW: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Institucija Ombudsmana Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine [Institution of the Ombudsmen of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina]
Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in The Hague, Netherlands
Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Doha, Qatar
www.gksoft.com /govt/en/ba.html   (477 words)

  
 NewsHour Online: Bosnia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Admiral Leighton Smith, the commander of NATO forces in Bosnia known as IFOR, tells Jim Lehrer that though there is "an awful lot of hate that remains" Bosnian and Serbian forces are not interested in fighting each other anymore.
May 21, 1996 -- Arms To Bosnia Excerpts from the Senate investigation of the U.S. role in supporting arms shipments from Iran to the Bosnian Muslims during their war with the Serbs.
19, 1996 -- Bosnia Deadlines Opposing forces were supposed to withdraw at least 1 1/4 miles from the cease-fire lines, clear all mines from the zone of separation, and exchange prisoners of war.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/bosnia/bosnia.html   (2564 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The blue, "in combination with the stars" is said to represent "Europe and the Council of Europe, of which Bosnia and Herzegovina is a part".
Concerning the flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina, my source for the colours is the model drawing I got by fax from the Office of the High Representative in Sarajevo.
Flag of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
fotw.vexillum.com /flags/ba.html   (673 words)

  
 The History Place - Genocide in the 20th Century
Bosnia is one of several small countries that emerged from the break-up of Yugoslavia, a multicultural country created after World War I by the victorious Western Allies.
On February 6, 1994, the world's attention turned completely to Bosnia as a marketplace in Sarajevo was struck by a Serb mortar shell killing 68 persons and wounding nearly 200.
Sights and sounds of the bloody carnage were broadcast globally by the international news media and soon resulted in calls for military intervention against the Serbs.
www.historyplace.com /worldhistory/genocide/bosnia.htm   (1456 words)

  
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Head of the European Commission Delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Michael Humphreys, Head of the BiH Civil Service Agency, Mr Jakob Finci, and UNDP Resident Representative, Mr Jens Toyberg-Frandzen today signed a Memorandum of Understanding for joint support to a training programme for civil servants in the state and entity administrations.
Bosnia and Herzegovina –; a model country, when it comes to establishment of gender mechanisms and implementation of law on gender equality in the region
The conference is a part of the regional initiative for promotion of the gender equality, implemented through the Regional Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia and Montenegro, in cooperation with state institutions for gender equality and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) offices in these countries.
www.undp.ba   (586 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Bosnia and Hercegovina, Former Yugoslavia (Former Yugoslavian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Bosnia and Hercegovina[boz´nEu, hertsugOvE´nu] Pronunciation Key, Serbo-Croatian Bosna i Hercegovina, country (1995 est.
A narrow, undeveloped outlet to the Adriatic along the Neretva River in the southwest is its only outlet to the sea.
The country is commonly referred to as Bosnia.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BosniaNH.html   (201 words)

  
 Milosevic "Bosnia and Herzegovina" - Initial Indictment
Radovan KARADZIC was President of the Serbian Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Srpska demokratska stranka Bosne i Hercegovine or "SDS") throughout the period of the indictment.
By 21 November 1991, the Serbian Autonomous Regions and Autonomous Regions consisted of the Autonomous Region of Krajina, the SAO Herzegovina, the SAO Romanija-Birac, the SAO Semberija, and SAO Northern Bosnia.
On 15 May 1992, the United Nations Security Council in its resolution number 752 demanded that all interference from outside Bosnia and Herzegovina by units of the JNA cease immediately and that those units either be withdrawn, be subjected to the authority of the Government of the Republic, or be disbanded and disarmed.
www.un.org /icty/indictment/english/mil-ii011122e.htm   (8999 words)

  
 The Islamic World to 1600: The Rise of the Great Islamic Empires (The Islamicisation of Bosnia)
Why Bosnia converted en masse to Islam under the Ottoman Empire, while the other Balkan regions - with the exception of Albania, which also became mostly Muslim - remained Christian, was the subject of much scholarship in the wake of the Balkan war that followed the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1991.
The main mosque in Bosnia is the Gazi Husrev Beg Mosque, named after the Governor of Bosnia, and built in 1531 by the same architect who later built the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne for Sultan Selim I. The mosque underwent reconstruction in 1996 after being damaged in the war.
Another famous Islamic monument in Bosnia was the Old Bridge in the city of Mostar, which was built by the Ottomans in 1566.
www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/islam/empires/ottoman/bosnia.html   (911 words)

  
 eMedicine - Emergency Medicine in Bosnia : Article by James Lasseter, MD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bosnia and Herzegovina were one of six republics within the Federation of Yugoslavia, established at the end of World War II.
Bosnia was caught between Croatia and the remnants of the Yugoslav Federation, dominated by the Serbian Republic.
Located in central Bosnia, about 60 kilometers northwest of Sarajevo, Zenica remained relatively undamaged throughout the conflict and was the center of humanitarian relief activities for many organizations.
www.emedicine.com /emerg/topic724.htm   (1066 words)

  
 Bosnia-Herzegovina - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bosnia and Herzegovina : The Bradt Travel Guide (Bradt Travel Guide)
Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia
Michelin Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Serbia And Montenegro,The Former Yug.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /bosnia-herzegovina.htm   (149 words)

  
 INCORE: Conflict Data Service: Internet country Guides: Albania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
ICG's Bosnia project is largely centered on: war criminals, legal reform, the economy, the police, refugee return and political developments.
Council of Minister Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations, Office of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Coordinator for the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) in Bosnia and Herzegovina –PRSP in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The PRSP is meant to determine the principal medium-term economic development priorities for Bosnia, as well as to identify the most effective solutions for combating poverty in the country.
www.incore.ulst.ac.uk /cds/countries/bosnia.html   (3630 words)

  
 List of World Wide Web and other Internet Resources in and about Bosnia
All of the pretenses about Bosnia have now been exposed as lies or wishful thinking: that the Bosnian Serbs are independent of Belgrade; that the Serbs care one bit what the UN or the West wants or says; that the UN forces in Bosnia are doing any good...
Note: Bosnia and Herzegovina is suffering from interethnic civil strife which began in March 1992 after the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina held a referendum on independence.
Britain is currently the largest contributor of troops in Bosnia; additionally, some 25 per cent of all aid convoys to the region have been from the United Kingdom.
balkansnet.org /bosnia.html   (3491 words)

  
 Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina - SFOR - Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
To fulfil its mission and a key task of ensuring continued compliance with military aspects of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFOR conducts regular operational rehearsals, including regular training in the deployment and operation of its Reserve Forces.
A military bus escorted by a Slovenian MP vehicle is not an unusual scene for Bosnia and you should not expect to attract a lot of attention from the people who are walking on the streets of Sarajevo on Sunday August 8th.
The Liaison and Observation Team (LOT) is a group of soldiers who live not in military camp but in civilian accommodation among the local population providing the dynamic, responsive and locally-based 'public face' of SFOR.
www.nato.int /sfor   (624 words)

  
 Reports on War Crimes in the FormerYugoslavia
See also the article by Paul Hockenos in the Bosnia Report April-July 2004 of the Bosnian Institute; the summary the ICG Report #55, Collapse in Kosovo (click the pdf option at the top for the full report), and the full IDF report (63 pages in pdf).
Bosnia's National Library in Sarajevo, shelled and burned by Serb military forces on August 25-26, 1992 in the largest book burning in history.
It is also a compelling introduction to Bosnia for those who do not know its history and wish to understand the current situation, valuable for small groups, large groups, public education, and classroom use.
www.haverford.edu /relg/sells/reports.html   (6181 words)

  
 Bosnia Maps - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online
Bosnia Geographic Overview Map From The Former Yugoslavia: A Map Folio CIA 1992 (52K)
Bosnia Population Map From The Former Yugoslavia: A Map Folio CIA 1992 (68K)
Bosnia and Herzegovina Muslim Resettlement in the U.S. Sector: Target Areas CIA 1997 (221K)
www.lib.utexas.edu /maps/bosnia.html   (522 words)

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