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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)

  
 Young Bosnia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Young Bosnia (Serbo-Croat: Млада Босна / Mlada Bosna) was a revolutionary youth organization in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the early 20th century.
Young Bosnia (most of whose members, but not all, were Serbs), was an organization of young people who advocated use of violence to achieve this goal.
Young Bosnia who participated in the assassination were Gavrilo Princip, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Vaso Čubrilović, Trifko Grabež, Danilo Ilić, Muhamed Mehmedbašić, Cvjetko Popović, Miško Jovanović and Veljko Čubrilović.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Young_Bosnia   (287 words)

  
 Young Bosnia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Young Bosnia (Serbo-Croatian ''Mlada Bosna'') was a revolutionary youth organization in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the early 20th century.
The members of Young Bosnia were Gavrilo Princip, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Vaso Čubrilović, Trifko Grabež, Danilo Ilić, Muhamed Mehmedbašić, Cvjetko Popović, Miško Jovanović and Veljko Čubrilović.
In Yugoslavia, Young Bosnia were praised as revolutionaries who helped bring about the fall of the oppressive Austro-Hungarian Empire and unification of Southern Slavs.
www.seattleluxury.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/entry/Young_Bosnia   (372 words)

  
 Bosnia's Long History-Part II, After 1800   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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)

  
 Bosnia-Herzegovina: history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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)

  
 The Seattle Times: Opinion: Bridge can't heal Bosnia divisions
This historic monument's reconstruction is being heralded as a significant event in the recovery of Bosnia and the reconciliation of the warring ethnicities of that country.
Young men dove from it for a few dollars or deutschmarks, and sweethearts arranged dates on its smooth-worn marble steps.
Bosnia's constitution, drafted in Dayton, Ohio, established two ethnically based entities, one ruled by Serbs and the other a Muslim-Croat federation.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/opinion/2001985986_mostar23.html   (724 words)

  
 InternationalReports.net : Bosnia and Herzegovina 2002
Bosnia’s private contractors and businessmen may be the only ones that are aware of this fact and perhaps deserve support in their activities.
Bosnia is near the bottom of the European scale regarding proliferation of computers (both PC’s per capita and office computers), access to the Internet and development of the communications infrastructure.
Bosnia has two main ISP’s: one is BIHNET, owned by the state-owned company BH Telecom in the Federation, and the other is Telecom of Srpska, owned by the Republika Srpska state-owned telecommunications company.
www.internationalreports.net /europe/bosnia/2002/bosniaandherz.html   (1970 words)

  
 Slave trade thrives in Bosnia
Bosnia has become the centre of a modern day version of the slave trade.
Young women are lured from the poorest regions of Europe with promises of work in the West, then sold like cattle and forced into prostitution.
With no shortage of young women desperate to improve their lives and no sanctions on the unscrupulous gangs that exploit them, this modern day slave trade will continue to thrive.
www.uri.edu /artsci/wms/hughes/ukraine/slavebosnia.htm   (534 words)

  
 Balkanalysis.com » Blog Archives » The Young Turk Revolution and the 1908 Annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina
The Young Turks’ belief was that if the great achievements of Western civilization were adopted in the Ottoman Empire, the expected resulting adoption of capitalism would thus bring prosperity to the population.
Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918.
“Proclamation of the Annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Emperor Franz Joseph” in Trifunovska, 1994.
www.balkanalysis.com /?p=672   (3049 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.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...
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107349.html   (1604 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina - Thematic Reports
That process was discontinued in 1997 (see resolution 1997/57) and the CHR requested the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the territory of the former Yugoslavia to act on behalf of the UN in studying the issue of disappeared persons.
The concerns of the Office of the High Representative, the OHCHR and the OSCE were noted with regard to the fairness of the trial of Ibrahim Djedovic, who was convicted on charges of war crimes against the civilian population and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment by the Sarajevo Cantonal Court in October 1998.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is among the countries visited by such representatives and potential adoptive parents.
www.hri.ca /fortherecord1999/vol5/bosniatr.htm   (563 words)

  
 Young Bosnia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
After seven months in Bosnia in 2000, the 49-year-old said, he was given a brief talk about stress, relationships and safety...
The members of Young Bosnia were Gavrilo Princip, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Vaso Čubrilović, Trifko Grabež, Danilo Ilić;, Muhamed Mehmedbašić and Cvjetko Popović;.
In Yugoslavia, Young Bosnia were praised as revolutionaries who helped bring about the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and unification of Southern Slavs.
publicliterature.org.cob-web.org:8888 /en/wikipedia/y/yo/young_bosnia.html   (282 words)

  
 Origins and History Bosnia-Hercegovina Under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1878-1918: Prelude to World War I | Carl ...
The Young Bosnia Movement and Serbian nationalism were guided by the Young Italy Movement and the example of Piedmont in national unification and nationalism.
The illegal annexation of Bosnia would lead directly to the assassination of the Archduke and the outbreak of World War I. Austrian foreign minister Aloys, Count Lexa von Aehrenthal made the decision to annex Bosnia-Hercegovina to preclude the Ottoman Empire from regaining control and to prevent the self-determination of the Serbian population of Bosnia.
Near the bridge, the Muzej Mlade Bosne (Museum of the Young Bosnia Movement) was established, in honor of the Bosnian nationalist group which had planned and organized and carried out the assassination.
www.serbianna.com /columns/savich/015.shtml   (4122 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | The battle for the Bosnian vote
Hundreds of posters and leaflets are stacked against the walls, and the young staff come and go, working and singing along to songs on the radio.
Bosnia's young people have a lot at stake in these elections.
In some ways Bosnia's youth is not so different from the rest of the population.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/5397020.stm   (703 words)

  
 Global Youth Connect: Bosnia Country Background Information
For a country in the heart of Europe, it is interesting that Bosnia has only regained its full independence and statehood at the end of the last century.
And while Bosnia "fell with a whimper", there was a growing sense of emerging South Slavic nationalism (particularly among Serbs and Croats) which created a new generation of anti-colonial movements (mostly comprised of young people educated in the West).
Among others, there emerged a specific movement of "Young Bosnia" which called for expulsion of the Austrian rulers and creation of a Couth Slav state, under the umbrella of Serbian leadership.
www.globalyouthconnect.org /country_bosnia.html   (1006 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
Because Princip's "fanaticism" unleashed yet further suffering for the Serbs at that particular moment in their history, the young man was a tragic figure as far as the fate of his own people was concerned.
Markovic is not so sure, arguing that the young man's deed must be seen in its historical context and that it would be wrong to say that the demise of former Yugoslavia discredited him and Mlada Bosna forever.
Bosnia imported 230,000 tons of sugar from the EU over the past 18 months, of which 200,000 tons then "went missing." Bosnia's Muslim-Croat Federation consumes about 35,000 tons of sugar annually.
www.rferl.org /reports/balkan-report/2004/07/26-230704.asp   (3373 words)

  
 Young, Bosnian, and searching for a future | csmonitor.com
As Bosnia's leaders and the international community that has overseen day-to-day life here since the end of the war in 1995 contemplate the country's future, they are belatedly realizing that young people – the one group most often associated with a nation's future – are distinctly absent from the conversation.
Still, other young people say they want to leave their country – although travel abroad is almost impossible for Bosnians because of strict visa requirements placed on them by almost every country in the world.
Among some young people who do want to stay in Bosnia, there is a tangible sense of taking hold of the recent past and making their own commentary on it.
www.csmonitor.com /2002/0724/p12s01-woeu.html   (1846 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina for the Curious quiz -- free game
"Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav republic, is a newly born state (1992-95) in the West Balkans.
A strong religious movement blossomed in medieval Bosnia, characterized as "dualistic [Manichean] heretics" by Pope.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot dead in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a young Serb from the 'Young Bosnia' clandestine organization.
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=112025   (512 words)

  
 Gavrilo Princip and Patrick Pearse: Nationalism, Patriotism, and Rebellion: A Comparison | Carl Savich | Columns | ...
The Young Bosnia Movement was committed to violence and revolution, not gradual, peaceful reform.
But the Young Bosnia Movement, influenced by anarchist writings of Pyotr Kropotkin, the Russian Narodnaya Volya (People’s Will), a populist revolutionary organization, Giusseppe Mazzini, the leader of the Italian unification/nationalist movement, who advocated political assassination as a means of achieving independence, Giovane Italia, the Young Italy Movement, and the Balkan Wars of 1912-13.
The Young Ireland Movement had much in common with the Young Bosnia Movement which in turn was based on the Young Italy Movement.
www.serbianna.com /columns/savich/028.shtml   (6696 words)

  
 Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Bosnia was ruled by Bans and in 753 formed a territorial union with the Principality of Rascia known as Surbia (nativly called Zagorje) ruled by Grand Princes.
Bosnia's Serbs were baptised into Christianity by Byzantine missionary of the actions of Cyril and Methodus in the 800s.
The fiercest fighting of the war was in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the Serb forces fought the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, seizing much territory, except for the enclave of Goražde and committing ethnic cleansing of the regions which left them almost entirely Serb-populated.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Bosnian_Serb   (2026 words)

  
 The City, The Girl, And The Little Rag Doll - Story From Bosnia (Islaam.Com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I was led through the dark and damp hallways to a room in the basement of the building where a group of young girls were practicing Islamic songs for an upcoming Islamic festival.
I shudder with the thought of the painful last moments of the young Aida, trapped in the fire of a war she never fully understood, punished by the Balkan war for a crime that her enemies are still not ready to forgive her for - Islam!
Bosnia is alive today; so are many Aidas, and so are many lands such as Bosnia.
islaam.com /Article.aspx?id=137   (1865 words)

  
 Salon.com News | Outside the law
Denisa, who is now 23, had spent her early teens in what she calls "life in the basement," hiding from the shelling in the surrounding hills, often going without electricity, and sometimes without food and water.
Oliver is personally familiar with the workings of forced prostitution in Bosnia -- he admits he paid a local brothel owner for his current wife, who was in her late teens at the time.
In one of the stories he tells in his deposition, Oliver says he was invited into the house of some co-workers to see what he describes as two "rental" live-in women in their late teens.
archive.salon.com /news/feature/2002/06/26/bosnia/print.html   (5032 words)

  
 History of Bosnia and Herzegovina - HERCEG BOSNA :: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina ::
After the battle at Vitez in central Bosnia, in which they have decisively defeated the Bosnian Muslim army, Filipovic's forces have taken Sarajevo (breaking the severe resistance of local Muslim population), and advancing further through Herzegovina and NoviPazar Sanjak have occupied the entire Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Also, Serbia's financial support of rapidly radicalized pro-Yugoslav secret society "Mlada Bosna" ("Young Bosnia") and the assassination of the Austrian Archduke in Sarajevo, have resulted in World War I and the collapse of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
The Supreme-Bosnian archbishop (the somewhat pompous title of the oldest religious office in Bosnia and Herzegovina) dr. Josip Stadler opened the primary year of philosophical-theological studies in Mostar on Sep. the 1st.
www.hercegbosna.org /engleski/aushu.html   (2061 words)

  
 USNews.com: Nation & World: Bosnia accord marks anniversary amid new talks
Bosnia has a single currency and has moved to create a unified military establishment.
Some of Bosnia's young people are clamoring for Bosnia to become, as the U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, R. Nicholas Burns, puts it, "a normal country." And the two most notorious war crimes suspects—the former Bosnian Serb chief Radovan Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic—remain at large.
So as Bosnia's three presidents—representing Serbs, Croats, and Muslims—meet early this week in Washington, they not only are touting the effect of the Dayton agreements but find themselves under pressure to seek constitutional changes that would yield a more unified and coherent state.
www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/051122/22world.htm   (631 words)

  
 Outside the law - Salon
Occasionally he'd see the young girls riding bikes and playing with other children, with their "owners" standing by, watching.
A second wrongful termination suit filed in the U.K. by a former DynCorp employee contracted to the United Nations to be part of the U.N.'s International Police Task Force in Bosnia charges that she was sacked for implicating DynCorp employees who participated in forced prostitution in the Balkans.
The scope of the problem is stunning, says Martina Vandenberg, a women's rights researcher with Human Rights Watch, and in a 1999 tour of Bosnia, she saw little effort to stop it.
dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2002/06/26/bosnia/index.html   (1262 words)

  
 PlanetPapers - The Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand : Trigger for War
Bosnia and Herzegovina were provinces just south of Austria, which had, until 1878, been governed by the Turks.
Towards that end, three young Bosnian-Serbs were recruited and trained in bomb throwing and marksmanship.
Franz Ferdinand accepted the invitation of Bosnia's governor, General Oskar Potoirek, to inspect the army maneuvers being held outside Sarajevo.
www.planetpapers.com /Assets/3241.php   (2521 words)

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