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  bosnia and herzegovina - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Bosnia and Herzegovina (officially Bosna i Hercegovina, shortened to BiH, also in English variously written Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bosnia-Hercegovina) is a mountainous country in the western Balkans.
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%).
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina   (1399 words)

  
 Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Islam was brought to this region by the Ottomans.
Bosnia and Herzegovina remained provinces of the Ottoman Empire until the 1878 Congress of Berlin gave temporary control of the region to Austria- Hungary.
Religious education in Bosnia and Herzegovina is largely decentralized, as is the education system generally.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Islam_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina   (1368 words)

  
 CHARLES BRAY's Bosnia and Herzegovin Journal
Bosnia: After Friday's reopening on July 23rd 2004, of the historic bridge of Mostar, was blown up in fighting between Muslims and Croats during the Bosnian war in 1993, European papers assess the significance of the ceremony.
Herzegovina followed in 1482 and the Turks remained in control until 1878, during that time Turkish influence was enormous.
Bosnia- Herzegovina was the poorest of the republics, after Macedonia, in the old Yugoslav federation, and was the most central of the country’s six republics, covering an area of 51,129 km [19,736 sq miles].
www.greatestcities.com /users/cbray5003/Europe/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina   (4761 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina travel guide - Wikitravel
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina) is a Balkan country in Southern Europe that was formerly part of Yugoslavia.
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 and Herzegovina ranked next to The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as the poorest republic in the old Yugoslav federation.
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 New Balkan Politics - Issue 5
The problem of the ideological-political trends in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the context of this analysis, first of all focuses on the controversies created around the question about possible ideological-political plans and activities with the aim of forming a "Muslimania" in the European geo-strategic and geo-political space.
It is followed by the connotation related to the centuries-long tolerance in Bosnia and of Bosnia as an undisputed part of Europe, regardless of the religious and cultural particularities or divergences.
The explanation and the argument is that, for instance, the language codes of the Serbs and the Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina are quite close or identical to the language code of the Bosniaks, compared to the language codes of the Serbs and Croats from the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Croatia.
www.newbalkanpolitics.org.mk /OldSite/Issue_5/slavejko.islam.eng.asp   (2507 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina (09/06)
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, there are 407 primary schools with 250,000 students, 171 secondary schools with 80,000 students, 7 universities in the major cities (Sarajevo, Mostar, Banja Luka, Tuzla, Bihac, and Foca) and 6 academies (4 pedagogic and 2 art academies).
Bosnia and Herzegovina introduced the direct election of mayors at regional and municipal elections held in October 2004.
Bosnia and Herzegovina maintains an embassy in the United States at 2109 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20037 (tel.: 202-337-1500; fax: 202-337-1502).
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2868.htm   (2914 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina (officially Bosna i Hercegovina/Босна и Херцеговина, shortened to BiH, also in English variously written Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bosnia-Hercegovina) is a mountainous country in the western Balkans.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is divided into the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska.
Bosnia is located in the western Balkans, bordering Croatia to the north and south-west, and Serbia and Montenegro to the east.
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 Islam in Bosnia & Herzegovina
The Congress of Berlin Agreement further stipulated that the Muslim population of Bosnia and Herzegovina were guaranteed the freedom to practice their religion and the freedom to conduct their own religious affairs.
This was evidenced by the outcome of the October 1990 elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina which were swept by PDA and the subsequent election of Aliia Izetbejovic as the President of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Muslims insist that the territorial and political integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina remain intact and undivided irrespective of the new model of Yugoslavia that eventually emerges.
members.tripod.com /worldupdates/islamintheworld/id23.htm   (4213 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — FactMonster.com
Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia and Montenegro have delimited most of their boundary, but sections along the Drina River remain in dispute; discussions continue with Croatia on several small disputed sections of the boundary.
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...
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 Top20Bosnia-Herzegovina.com - Your Top20 Guide to Bosnia-Herzegovina!
A citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, regardless of ethnicity, is usually identified as a Bosnian.
Bosnia was formerly one of the six federal units constituting Yugoslavia.
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.
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 Meteoroloo.com :: Bosnia - topographical maps of bosnia
Bosnia through historyThe territories of today's Bosnia and Herzegovina were part of Illyria and later part of the Roman Empire (provinces Dalmatia and Pannonia).
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 bosnia war (51% of the territory), and the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Serb entity - bosnia news Republika Srpska (49%).
The currency (the Convertible bosnia herzegovina civilian Mark KM or Bosnian mujahideen in bosnia Mark BAM, BAM ratio to the Euro 1: 0,51), which is based on the fixed value of the deutschmark, is also very stable.
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 A Soldier's Guide: Bosnia-Herzegovina
After the war, Bosnia Herzegovina became one of the six constituent republics of the Yugoslav federation.
The Federal and Bosnian Serb armies under General Ratko Mladic, aided by paramilitary groups, began seizing territory in northern and eastern Bosnia, expelled much of the non-Serb population, and engaged in ethnic cleansing, in which intimidation or violence were used to remove all members of other ethnic groups from the area.
Bosnia-Herzegovina is divided into three major religious/cultural groups: Islam, the largest group (Muslim Slavs), comprises approximately 44 percent of the population and makes up most of the government, another 17 percent of the population comprises Croatians who are mostly Roman Catholic and allied with the Bosnian Muslims.
www.dtic.mil /bosnia/army/bosbuch.html   (2175 words)

  
 Strategic Insights -- Bosnia and Herzegovina—Islamic Revival, International Advocacy Networks and Islamic ...
Second, Bosnia in the 1990s was in the unique situation of having the political and mobilizing structures in place for the creation of an Islamic state.
Third, Bosnia is currently straddling the liberal religious tradition, mainly in Sarajevo, and the advent of more conservative and radical Islam in the rural impoverished areas of the country.
Bosnia and Herzegovina marks the western expansion of the boundaries of the Muslim world.
www.ccc.nps.navy.mil /si/2005/May/attanassoffMay05.asp   (4402 words)

  
 Croats in BiH
When Bosnia fell under the Ottoman rule in 1463, her two children (a boy and a girl) had been taken to slavery and educated in the spirit of Islam, her husband decapitated.
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   (10291 words)

  
 New Balkan Politics - Issue 2
The problem of the ideological-political trends in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the context of this analysis implies, first of all, focuses on the controversies created around the question about possible ideological-political plans and activities with the aim of forming a "Muslimania" in the European geo-strategic and geo-political space.
At the same time, there is the need for emphasizing some of the most indicative views of top personalities in the Islamic hierarchy in Bosnia and Herzegovina in relation to these plans and activities, as well as, for shedding some light on the present, relevant internal Islamic - religious divergences.
He particularly stresses that from a historical aspect, as well as from the aspect of the modern situation in Bosnia, says that it is totally ungrounded to treat the Bosniaks as fundamentalists.
www.newbalkanpolitics.org.mk /OldSite/Issue_2/sasajkovski.eng.asp   (2545 words)

  
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To teenagers like Arsen and Islam, he is a hero and a symbol of peace.
Arsen, from Croatia, and Islam, from Bosnia and Herzegovina, share not only a love of basketball but also a common history with Vlade, a Serb.
Fifty 12 to 14 year old boys from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Former Yugoslav Republic came to the three-day camp in Treviso, Italy this summer.
www.un.org /arabic/works/peace/peace1.html   (496 words)

  
 Adherents.com
The earliest defters, from 1468/9, show that Islam had established only a toehold in the first few years after conquest: in the eare of east and central Bosnia which they cover, 37,125 households were Christian and only 332 were Muslim.
The most detailed study of north-eastern Bosnia during this period, by Adem Handzic, does not support Mandic's claim, however--though it does show that many Catholics emigrated from the area, and that five out of the ten Franciscan monasteries there ceased to operate.
Islam in modern Bosnia evolved into a tolerant form with some practices diverging sharply from what is considered orthodoxy in other Islam countries.
www.adherents.com /Na/Na_332.html   (2783 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
Postwar political economy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: the spoils of peace.
Fractured land, healing nations: religious barriers and contributions toward reconciliation in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The importance of civil law in the transition to peace: lessons from the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107349.html   (1604 words)

  
 Adherents.com: By Location
"Figures estimated on a different basis for the whole of Bosnia and Hercegovina suggest that the Christian population grew from 143,000 in 1732 to 400,000 in 1817.
"From 1328-1878, Bosnia was occupied by the Ottoman Turks.
There was also by now a small Jewish community, of roughly sixty people, in Travnik: this town had gained importance as the seat of the governor of Bosnia, and now had a predominantly Muslim population of 70000.
www.adherents.com /adhloc/Wh_40.html   (2760 words)

  
 AL-ISLAAH PUBLICATIONS
With the Mercy of Allah Subhaanu wa-Ta'ala,today Islam has spread to the FOUR corners of the globe.
It is with this intention of uniting the Ummah of Nabi(Sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) through the acknowledgement of their existence in different parts of the world; this treatise has been presented.
The enlightenment of the lives of our Muslim Brothers and Sisters; their struggles;their truimphs; and their plights in today's global village will make us understand one another.
members.tripod.com /worldupdates/islamintheworld   (148 words)

  
 Islam and Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia: A Decade On From War - Part 1
Bosnia: A Decade On From War - Part 2
Bosnia: A Decade On From War - Part 3
www.islamawareness.net /Europe/Bosnia   (186 words)

  
 The UN Works for Peace and Security (1)
At Basketball without Borders, an innovative camp developed by the United Nations Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) and the National Basketball Association (NBA), Arsen and Islam had a chance to become team-mates, room-mates and friends.
Fifty 12 to 14 year old boys from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia came to the three-day camp in Treviso, Italy this summer.
As for the two new friends — Arsen and Islam — they exchanged telephone numbers and addresses.
www.un.org /works/peace/peace1.html   (514 words)

  
 Bosnia-Hercegovina Travel Information | Lonely Planet Destination Guide
This cafe was once a tavern when Sarajevo was a stopover on the ancient crossroads between East and West.
Bosnia and Hercegovina (or Bosnia Hezegovina as some prefer it) is a crossroads country.
Sandwiched between Croatia and Serbia, it's been a zone of contention since Occident and Orient first began arm-wrestling for it.
www.lonelyplanet.com /destinations/europe/bosnia_hercegovina   (164 words)

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