
	Where results make sense

Topic: Bosnia Province, Ottoman Empire

	Ottoman Empire - MSN Encarta
		Ottoman Empire, dynastic state centered in what is now Turkey, founded in the late 13th century and dismantled in the early 20th century.
		After his death the empire experienced severe internal crises, including disorder in the provinces, unrest in the military as serious inflation caused soldiers to be underpaid or not paid at all, and succession issues due to the lack of candidates who were of age to assume the sultanate.
		To be an Ottoman one had to serve the state and the religion and know the “Ottoman way.” Serving the state meant having a position within the military, the bureaucracy, or the religious establishment that carried with it the coveted askeri status and tax exemption.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553949/Ottoman_Empire.html (6116 words)

	Bosnia Province, Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Province of Bosnia was a key Ottoman province, the westernmost one, based on the territory of the present day state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		However, the Ottoman wars in Europe continued and the province significantly decreased in territory during the same century.
		Province of Bosnia's first center was Sarajevo (Saraybosna) between 1463 and 1583 again 1851 and 1878, after Banjaluka (Banyaluka or Banaluka) between 1583 and 1686; and Travnik between 1686 and 1851.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bosnia_Province,_Ottoman_Empire (250 words)

	Bosnia and Herzegovina
		Bosnia itself is the chief geographic region of the modern state, with a moderate continental climate, consisting of hot summers and cold, snowy winters.
		Bosnia and Herzegovina comprises the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH), the Republika Srpska (RS), and the Brčko District (BD).
		Bosnia is located in the western Balkans, bordering Croatia (932km) to the north and south-west, Serbia (302km) to the east, and Montenegro (225km) to the southeast.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/bosnia_and_herzegovina.html (6763 words)

	Bosnia and Herzegovina Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkan peninsula of Southern Europe with an area of 51,129 km² (19,741 square miles) and an estimated population of around 4 million people.
		It is also noticeable that Bosnia and Herzegovina sued Serbia and Montenegro for the act of genocide [2], and that the International Court of Justice ruled that the Serbian state could not be held responsible for the mass killing, or complicity in the act.
		Bosnia and Herzegovina has been a top performer in recent years in terms of tourism development; tourist arrivals have grown by an average of 24% annually from 1995 to 2000 (360,758 in 2002).
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.html (6742 words)

	The Ottomans: European Imperialism and Crisis
		Ottoman history in the nineteenth century was dominated by European wars and expansion.
		Although this is a story for another day, the Ottoman territories that fell into European hands precipitated a crisis among European powers that would eventually lead directly World War I. As a result of this conflict and the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the Ottomans lost all their territory in Syria, Palestine, Arabia, and Mesopotamia.
		By 1919, the Ottoman Empire was reduced to Turkey only, which extended from the southern European shores of the Black Sea, to Asia Minor in the west, to Iran in the east, and Syria and Iraq, newly created states in 1919, in the south.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/OTTOMAN/EUROPE.HTM (1238 words)

	Bosnia and Herzegovina - GipsyPrincess.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkan peninsula of Southern Europe with an area of 51,280 square kilometres (19,741 sq mi).
		Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the south, Bosnia and Herzegovina is mostly landlocked, except for 26 kilometres of the Adriatic Sea coastline, centered around the town of Neum.
		There are seven major rivers in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Una river in the northwest part of Bosnia flows along the northern and western border of Bosnia and Croatia and through the Bosnian city of Bihac.
	www.gipsyprincess.com /encyclopedia/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina (3922 words)

	Nationalism
		Because the [Ottoman] army was fighting elsewhere, the government armed local Turks, as well as Circassian and Tatar refugees who had been settled in Bulgaria, as well as Circassian and Tatar refugees who had been settled in Bulgaria, and allowed them to put down the rebels.
		After Bulgaria had been detached from the Ottoman Empire and Austria had seized Bosnia and Herzogovina in 1878, the region left to the Ottoman Empire in Europe was predominantly Muslim....
		As the Ottoman Empire came to the period of the First World War, it had already suffered greater blows than any other combatants were to suffer in the Great War.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /ottoman/module4/lecture4.htm (1631 words)

	Bosnia and Herzegovina
		As the borders of the Ottoman Empire began to shrink in the 19th century, Muslims from elsewhere in the Balkans migrated to Bosnia.
		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 (1642 words)

	Bosnia and Herzegovina: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		As the borders of the Ottoman Empire began to shrink in the 19th century, Muslims from elsewhere in the Balkans migrated to Bosnia.
		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 - Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbo-Croatian Bosna i Hercegovina, country (2005...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107349.html (1854 words)

	Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bosnia had three faiths; each existed only in particular geographical areas: Catholics to the north, west, and from the 1340s the center (especially in towns); the Orthodox in the south and east; the Bosnian church in the center, extending east to the Drina and south along the Neretva into Hum.
		Bosnia at the time of the 1463 campaign was divided into two major parts, the "king's lands," i.e., Bosnia proper, and "the duke's lands," i.e., Herzegovina; in their usual conservative fashion, this division was retained by the Ottomans.
		One characteristic of Bosnia that remained a constant from the approach of the Ottomans down certainly to the end of the eighteenth century was that it comprised, in large part along its northern and western borders with Hungary and Venice, a true borderland, or in Ottoman terms an uc.
	www.unc.edu /courses/pre2000fall/slav167/muslims.htm (19427 words)

	Ottoman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ottoman firepower destroys the flower of the Hungarian nobility at the battle of Mohacs; the conquest of Buda and Peşte follows.
		This turn-of-the-century upheaval marks the end of the Classical Age and the opening pf a new chapter in Ottoman history characterized by the waning of the state's political and military fortunes.
		Nevertheless, esraf and ayan (newly crystallizing dynasties of provincial notables) are on the move throughout the empire.
	www.theottomans.org /english/chronology/index.asp (1227 words)

	boys clothing: European royalty -- Bosnia
		Bosnia's borders were established in the middle ages: the Sava River in the North, the Drina River in the east and south east, and the Dinaric Alps in the West.
		Bosnia as a result shared in the Empire's glorious expansion and in the decline that began in the 18th century.
		Gradually the Ottomans were forced to great increasing autonomy to Balkan principalities and by the end of the century there were independent kingdoms in Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Serbia.
	histclo.com /royal/yug/bos/royal-bos.htm (3979 words)

	ottoman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Even after Ottoman control began to decline in the early 1800's, the Ottoman Empire was able to hold onto the southern tip of the Balkans and much of the Near East until the Empire was finally destroyed by World War One.
		As the Ottoman Empire declined and lost control in the Balkans in the 19th and 20th century, new countries emerged and the deep divisions between Balkan peoples became apparent.
		Ottoman regional dominance, and European attempts to avoid that economic control, were the catalysts for European sea dominance, colonization, Western "discovery" of the American continent and the further increase of global interactions!!
	www.hcc.hawaii.edu /hcconline/hist151/ottoman.htm (2237 words)

	SFOR Informer Online: History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
		However, although this tactic was useful during the Ottoman years of occupation, in the future it would serve as a problem for Croats interested in independence and a 'pure' Croatian state.
		In 1592, the Turks captured the important fortress at Bihac from the Hapsburgs, and with this move the Ottoman Empire covered all of Bosnia and Herzegovina, part of Croatia, and Hungary.
		After the Vienna War (1683-1699) Bosnia became the western province of the Ottoman Empire, and the Karlowitz treaty (1699) confirmed the historical borders of Bosnia on the north, west and south.
	www.nato.int /sfor/indexinf/146/p07a/t02p07a.htm (645 words)

	Bosnia-Herzegovina Overview \| Bosnia-Herzegovina Tour Guide \| iExplore.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When thinking of Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is difficult not to focus on the Yugoslav wars that blighted the Balkan region for much of the 1990s.
		of the Ottoman Empire, much of the population converted to Islam but, as a frontier province, the country was the first line of defense against incursions and consequently suffered recurring invasions.
		Then, under expulsion of the Turks in 1876, Bosnia was assigned to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and an influx of non-Muslims from the north brought Bosnia close to its present-day ethnic mix.
	www.iexplore.com /dmap/Bosnia-Herzegovina/Overview (519 words)

	Albania - Glossary
		Title of honor adopted by the Ottoman sultans in the sixteenth century, after Sultan Selim I conquered Syria and Palestine, made Egypt a satellite of the Ottoman Empire, and was recognized as guardian of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
		The city was captured by the Turks in 1453 and became the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
		The Ottoman Empire disintegrated at the end of World War I; the center was reorganized as the Republic of Turkey, and the outlying provinces became separate states.
	countrystudies.us /albania/Glossary.htm (2492 words)

	History of Bosnia
		During the 16th and 17th centuries, Bosnia was an important Turkish outpost in the constant warfare against the Habsburgs and Venice.
		As the Ottoman Empire was pushed out of Europe, its rule in Bosnia became more onerous, and Muslims and Christians alike grew resentful of interference from Constantinople.
		With the collapse of communism in 1989-90, Bosnia and Herzegovina was engulfed by a wave of nationalism that swept Yugoslavia.
	www.sadik.net /bosnia/historyofbosnia.htm (882 words)

	Top20Bosnia-Herzegovina.com - Your Top20 Guide to Bosnia-Herzegovina!
		Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkan peninsula of Southern Europe with an area of 51,129 square kilometres (19,741 sq mi) and an estimated population of around 4.5 million people.
		In Bosnia though, the distinction between a Bosnian and a Herzegovinian is maintained, again parallel to ethnicity.
		Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the south, Bosnia and Herzegovina is landlocked, except for 20 kilometres of the Adriatic Sea coastline,
	www.top20bosnia-herzegovina.com (2236 words)

	Croats in BiH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The border between Middle Age Bosnia and Croatia was on the river Vrbas, not on Una.
		Georgius Benignus (Juraj Dragisic, ?1454 - 1520), a Croat born in Bosnia, in the town of Srebrenica.
		Vlatko Kupreskic, martyrdom in Bosnia and in the Hague
	www.hr /darko/etf/et02.html (9805 words)

	The Decline of the Ottomans
		The history of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century is one of increasing internal weakness and deterioration in the machinery of Government and of sustained external pressure by the Great Powers, which ultimately led to the dissolution of that Empire.
		The twenty years which followed the Crimean War were a period of comparative calm in the field of international rivalry in the Ottoman Empire, with two exceptions: the civil war of 1860 in Lebanon and the sanguinary insurrections of 1866-1868 in Crete, an island with a Christian majority of Greeks and a privileged Muslim minority.
		With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Eastern Question, as far as it concerned the question of which Power or Powers would inherit the vast and rich possessions of the "Sick man" upon its dissolution, i.e.
	www.naqshbandi.org /ottomans/decline_main.htm (2318 words)

	Bosnia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bosnia Province, Ottoman Empire, from the 15th to 19th centuries
		Bosnia (album), a live album by Grand Funk Railroad
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bosnia (92 words)

	The Black Hole of Nation-Building - by Nebojsa Malic
		Bosnia's economy continues to founder, its demoralized people continue to flee, and its rapacious political class continues to bleed the people dry, under the benevolent gaze of Imperial viceroys who couldn't make it at home, but have god-like powers here.
		The former Ottoman "province of darkness" has become a fl hole where all freedom, hope, and reason seem to vanish.
		The state of Bosnia today demonstrates everything that is wrong not only with the Empire, but also with the ideology on which it is based.
	www.antiwar.com /malic?articleid=673 (1272 words)

	Gendercide Watch: Bosnia-Herzegovina
		The war in Bosnia can thus be considered both a genocide against Bosnia's Muslim population, and a gendercide against Muslim men in particular.
		The Yugoslav ("Southern Slav") federation, cobbled together from the disintegrated Ottoman Empire after World War I, was torn apart by combined Nazi invasion and ethnic conflict during the Second World War.
		He was intimately involved in planning and preparing the genocidal actions against the Muslim population of Bosnia.
	www.gendercide.org /case_bosnia.html (2422 words)

	Macedonia FAQ: Macedonia From the Settlement of the Slavs to the Ottoman Empire
		Macedonia From the Settlement of the Slavs to the Ottoman Empire
		From then onwards the territory of Macedonia (which was governed as a province of the Illyric prefecture whose capital was Salonica) was exposed to continual spoliation by the Slavs.
		After the collapse of Dushan's Empire towards the middle of the 14th century a number of independent feudal states and districts were created in the territory of Macedonia.
	faq.macedonia.org /history/mk.from.slavs.2.ottoman.html (2064 words)

	Macedonia - United Macedonians Organization of Canada
		She was drawn forward by imperialist ambition, in the oppressed Christians of her own communion, many of whom were Slav by language and race, and by the instinct to seek a warm water port-a window whence the imprisoned giantess could look out upon the world.
		While the Ottoman Empire was crumbling at the edges, it was tightening its grip ever harder on Macedonia.
		They enjoyed all the freedoms and privileges as honorary citizens of the Ottoman Empire under the protection of their county's flag, and paid nothing for the honour bestowed upon them, not even taxes.
	www.unitedmacedonians.org /macedonia/stefov6.html (7069 words)

	Rome and Romania, Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, etc.
		Trajan was the first Emperor born in the provinces (Spain) and briefly, with his Mesopotamian campaign, expanded the Empire to its greatest extent.
		Finally, the Ottoman mosques of Sinan (c.1500-1588), based on the model of Sancta Sophia, produce the monumental Islâmic equivalent of the cathedral.
		By the settlement with the Crusaders, Venice was ceded 3/8 of the Empire, and the Doge henceforth styled himself quartae partis et dimidiae totius imperii Romaniae Dominator ("Lord of a quarter and a half [of a quarter] of the whole Empire of Romania").
	www.friesian.com /romania.htm (14302 words)

	Serbs, Bosnia and national identity
		Franjo Racki, the Croatian historian, says, that as the Roman province of Dalmatia stretched from the Adriatic to Pannonia, under those Serbs, who are mentioned by Einhard, we must look at all those lands between, and the people inhabiting them, ie: Bosnia to be considered Serbian land, inhabited by Serbs.
		The LPD called Bosnia and Raska (the name of the first Serbian state within the borders of modern Serbia) by the common name "Serbia", which clearly indicates the united Serbian national identity.
		Bosnia (pars Serbliae), Farlati writes, like Raska, is a Serb land, an original and integral part of Zagorja or Interior Serbia.
	members.tripod.com /cafehome/serbdom-eng.htm (3009 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)