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	History of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bosnia, due to its geographic position and terrain, was probably one of the last areas to go through this process, which presumably originated from the urban centers along the Dalmatian coast.
		The kingdoms of Serbia and Croatia split control of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 9th and 10th century, but by the high middle ages political circumstance led to the area being contested between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Byzantine empire.
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina (3255 words)

	History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
		Bosnia seems to have belonged to Croatia as late as the beginning of the tenth century.
		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.
		Bosnia and Herzegovina today consists of two entities -- the Muslim/Croat Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is largely Bosniak and Croat, and the Republika Srpska, which is primarily Serb.
	www.historyofnations.net /europe/bosniaandherzegovina.html (2022 words)

	Mostar Online - A Brief History of Bosnia-Herzegovina
		Bosnia's traditional borders, established in the medieval period, are: the Sava River (in the N), the Drina River (E/SE), and the Dinaric Alps (in the W).
		Bosnia became a killing ground, as bands of Serbian Chetniks, the Croatian Ustasha, local militias, German and Italian occupation troops and the Communist Partisans vied with each other in terrorizing various segments of the civilian population.
		Bosnia and its people had suffered terribly during the war, but the city of Sarajevo had once again emerged physically unscathed; it became the center of a cultural and economic revival.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/1935/history.html (3931 words)

	Bosnia's Long History-Part I, Untill 1800 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The aspects of Bosnia's history that are most relevant to the current crisis are its constant exposure to and involvement in fighting and the origins of its now warring factions, the Serbs, Croats and Muslims.
		Bosnia Herzegovina is bordered on the north and west by Croatia and on the south and east by Serbia.
		Bosnia's violent and tumultuous history is perhaps best summed up by the fact that Ban Kulin's reign, from 1180 to 1204, has lived on for more than seven hundred years as the "Golden Age" of Bosnian history, when in fact it was only twenty four years of peace.
	www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosta/slike/bosnia.html (4692 words)

	The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Bosnia-Herzegovina
		The first Jews did not immigrate to Bosnia until the Spanish Inquisition and expulsion in 1492.
		Bosnia had before been occupied by mostly Sephardim, but with the Austrian-Hungarian influence came many Ashkenazi Jews.
		The Jewish population was led by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/bosnia.html (538 words)

	History of the War in Bosnia
		BosniaÃs Muslims are Slavs who converted to Islam in the 14th and 15th centuries after the Ottoman Empire conquered the region.
		Throughout Bosnia, Bosnian Serb nationalists and the JNA began a systematic policy of "ethnic cleansing" (a polite term for genocide) to establish a "pure" Serb republic.
		Bosnia was attacked by the Yugoslav National Army, Bosnian Serb nationalists, and Bosnian Croat nationalists..
	www.friendsofbosnia.org /edu_bos.html (2438 words)

	A short history of Bosnia and Herzegovina
		Present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina becomes part of the Roman Empire in 9 and it becomes in 379 part of the East Roman Empire.
		Bosnia remains independent until 1463, when it becomes part of the Ottoman Empire.
		In 1992 the Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina secedes from Yugoslavia.
	www.electionworld.org /history/bosnia.htm (897 words)

	Bosnia and Herzegovina History Counties with short briefs
		Country Briefs: Bosnia and Herzegovina apparently seem to be two different places, but is the name of a single country that lies in the south east region of Europe, is spread over more than fifty-one thousand square kilometers and has a population of over four million people.
		In the years that flowed Bosnia and Herzegovina was the bone of contention between the kingdom of Hungary and the Byzantine Empire.
		In 1991 the Bosnia and Herzegovina was declared sovereign.
	www.ezilon.com /about-bosnia-and-herzegovina.htm (823 words)

	Bosnia's Long History-Part II, After 1800 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The modern history of Bosnia, built on an ancient foundation of violence, shows in great detail that Bosnia is a center of violence and division, which has been and continues to be a major source of international conflict.
		The response to the revolt was particularly brutal in Bosnia.
		Bosnia caught in the middle of all this hatred, was ravaged by all sides.
	www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosta/slike/bosnia2.html (4819 words)

	Category:History of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The main article for this category is History of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		History of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
		History of the demographics of Bosnia and Herzegovina
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:History_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina (118 words)

	Bosnia-Herzegovina: history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		During this period, Bosnia was seen as a bastion of the Bogomils (or Cathari), one of southern Europe's main heretical movements, who found support among the local population, and from the State, as well.
		Herzegovina and the part of Bosnia east of the Una river were ceded to Austria in 1718, and returned to Turkey in 1739.
		Bosnia's Muslim President, Alija Izetbegovic, was first chairman; the Serb nationalist Momcilo Krajisnik was second and the Croat leader, Kresimir Zubak was third.
	gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_history.cfm?Id=219 (2898 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: Balkans Report
		Bosnian Muslim and Croat losses early in the war reflected another of the conflict's complicated realities: In addition to fighting the Serbs, the two sides were also fighting each other in 1992 and 1993 –; much of that involving disputes over who would control particular territories once the Serbs were defeated.
		That included the preservation of Bosnia as a single state, and an equitable division of territory between the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Bosnian Serbs.
		Bosnia remains the only former Yugoslav republic with a Muslim plurality, about 44 percent, while 31 percent are Serbs and 17 percent are Croats.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/overview/bosnia.htm (1204 words)

	Bosnia and Herzegovina History
		Bosnia and Herzegovina is country with one of the richest history in world.
		Bosnia and Herzegovina's cultural and historical treasure is very good kept, and gives you an opportunity to see all historical ages, from ancient history until the newest events, all over the country.
		In the same year the governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, general Marijan Varešanin was shot, and on June 28 1914 a young Serbian nationalist by the name of Gavrilo Princip shot Prince Ferdinand and his pregnant wife dead on the streets of Sarajevo.
	www.world66.com /europe/bosniaandherzegovina/history (2963 words)

	New Page 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Bosnia officially "fell with a whisper" (šaptom pala) in 1463 and became the westernmost province of the Ottoman Empire.
		Bosnia and Herzegovina's Catholics identified with the Croats from neighbouring Austro-Hungarian provinces of Croatia-Slavonia and Dalmatia.
		Feelings among Bosnia's three nations regarding their roles in the war are based mostly on two issues; whether the war was initiated by Serbian aggression, and whether Croat and Serbdom was or would have been infringed upon in an independent Bosnian state.
	koz.vianet.ca /frames1.htm (4663 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.
		With the collapse of communism in 1989-90, Bosnia and Herzegovina was engulfed by a wave of nationalism that swept Yugoslavia.
		disunited, Bosnia fell to the Turks in 1463.
	www.sadik.net /bosnia/historyofbosnia.htm (882 words)

	Bosnia-Herzegovina History & Bosnia-Herzegovina Culture \| iExplore.com
		Bosnia and Herzegovina also became susceptible to Turkish efforts to expand northwards (for example, the 16th-century Hungarian campaigns of Suleyman the Magnificent).
		The decision by Vienna to annex Bosnia fully in 1908 produced a destabilizing chain of events contributing to the First Balkan war of 1912–13, then to the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, by a Serb revolutionary, Gavrilo Princip, in June 1914.
		Concomitantly, the area was also the major battleground of the Yugoslav civil war proper, between royalist Chetnik forces loyal to the exiled King Peter II and his government in London, and Partisans under the control of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, led by Josip Broz Tito.
	www.iexplore.com /dmap/Bosnia-Herzegovina/History (1465 words)

	History - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Europe
		The earliest known inhabitants of what is now Bosnia, traceable to the Neolithic period, were the Illyrians, a people of Indo-European stock who are considered ancestors of the modern Albanians.
		Rome’s most enduring legacy in Bosnia was the division between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian faiths along the border between the western and eastern Roman empires.
		Bosnia was first mentioned by that name in a surviving document from 958.
	www.countriesquest.com /europe/bosnia_and_herzegovina/history.htm (320 words)

	Cool Planet - Bosnia - History
		The area that is now called Bosnia has been ruled by many different groups in the course of its history.
		Bosnia was divided into two parts: a Muslim-Croat federation which controlled 51 per cent of the country and a Bosnian Serb republic which controlled 49 per cent of the country.
		The peace plan also called for refugees to be allowed to return home, and for the cease-fire to be policed by 60,000 NATO troops.
	www.oxfam.org.uk /coolplanet/kidsweb/world/bosnia/boshist.htm (392 words)

	The Nationalism Project: Bosnia: A Short History
		Noel Malcolm’s Bosnia A Short History is the first in a two part series which valiantly attempts to produce an historic reading of the roots of the contemporary conflict in the former Yugoslavia.
		The weakness of this book lies in its tendency to review sources that are heavily linked to the creation of national ideology of the many regimes within the region without necessarily exploring the role that the historians themselves played in the formulisation of the respective policies of states.
		Consequently, the role of prominent Moslems in the development of both Serb and Croat nationalist movements prior to 1941 have not been dealt with as serious contributions to both movements birth pangs, rather as political anomalies that were considered as necessity in achieving the eventual goal of an autonomous or independent Bosnian state.
	www.nationalismproject.org /books/bookrevs/bosnia.htm (549 words)

	The Bosnian Manuscript Ingathering Project: Brief History
		The prospect of remaining part of a rump Yugoslavia dominated by Miloshevich was clearly unacceptable to the majority of Bosnia's population, while Bosnian independence was anathema to Serb nationalists both within Bosnia and in Serbia.
		Among the methods of "ethnic cleansing" employed by the Serb forces are the selective killing of the non-Serb community's civic, religious and intellectual leaders, the confinement of all males of military age in concentration camps, and the use of mass rapes as a weapon of terror and abasement.
		Bosnia's vice-president and the deputy commander of the Bosnian armed forces are both Bosnian Serbs.
	www.kakarigi.net /manu/briefhis.htm (5520 words)

	Bosnia-Hercegovina's History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Also, the share of Serbs was certainly a plurality of the population of the region, which only became significantly upset after Tito came to power, according to a census taken in 1948 and compared with one in 1981.
		Thus, "Bosnia-Hercegovina" is only a region of a former kingdom whose residents are not unified by a shared history in the same way that the Croatians or Serbians are.
		There are similar examples of this in other countries-- Greece (along with Turkey and Bulgaria) occupies a region known as "Thrace." The Thracians were an ancient people with a common language and even had their own customs within the Orthodox Catholic Church.
	web.media.mit.edu /~constans/bih_history.html (1048 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Bosnia: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Bosnia: A Short History was celebrated on its first publication as a brilliant work of history which set the terrible war in the Balkans in its full historical and political context.
		This kind of "history" is typical of those Croat and Muslim nationalists who seem to have personal grudges against Serbs and therefore cannot be accepted at face-value.
		Covers the whole history of Bosnia, from the end of the Roman Empire to the Dayton Accords, in a single accessible volume; equally suited to the general reader or to the expert, it draws on a wide range of primary and secondary sources in all the relevant languages.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0330412442 (1044 words)

	Serbs, Bosnia and national identity
		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.
		Illyria Sacrum is a massive eight-volume history of the Church in Illyria prepared in the 18th and 19th centuries by three Italian Jesuits, Filipo Riceputi, Daniele Farlati and Jacobo Coleti.
		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)

	The History Place - Genocide in the 20th Century
		In April 1992, the U.S. and European Community chose to recognize the independence of Bosnia, a mostly Muslim country where the Serb minority made up 32 percent of the population.
		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.
		However, this new Muslim-Croat alliance failed to stop the Serbs from attacking Muslim towns in Bosnia which had been declared Safe Havens by the U.N. A total of six Muslim towns had been established as Safe Havens in May 1993 under the supervision of U.N. peacekeepers.
	www.historyplace.com /worldhistory/genocide/bosnia.htm (1456 words)

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