Islam and Christianity are about the same in Bosnia. The religious affiliation mainly follows the division into ethnic groups. Formally, state and religion are separate, but religious communities have great influence in society. Civil war gave religion more room in people’s lives. In the past, many were not actively religious, […]
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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As a result of the civil war and the political divide in the 1990s, Bosnia and Herzegovina has three official languages, Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian. According to the CIA World Factbook, 52.9 percent use Bosnian as their mother tongue, while 30.8 and 14.6 percent use Serbian and Croatian as their […]
The Bosnia War was a war that lasted from April 1992 to November 1995. The war revolved around control of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the wake of the disintegration of the Yugoslav state. Nationalist politicians from what had been the Bosnian Republic’s three constituent peoples (Muslims, Serbs and Croats) since […]
The Bosnia War of 1992–1995 caused major damage to the country’s infrastructure and was very devastating to business. Although the damage has been largely repaired, the economic situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina is difficult. Among other things, this has to do with a highly decentralized governance system that prevents effective […]
Over the years, Bosnia and Herzegovina has had very varied literary traditions. Often, Serbian and Croatian writers from Bosnia and Herzegovina are not considered “Bosnian literature” but Serbian or Croatian. Here is an overview of the overall literature in the country. The Middle Ages The oldest literary memorial from Bosnia-Herzegovina […]
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Europe, in the Balkan Peninsula, borders Serbia and Montenegro in the east and southeast, Croatia in the north and west. The border of today’s Bosnia-Herzegovina is identical to the borders of the sub-republic of the same name in federal Yugoslavia, which lasted from 1945 to […]
The shots in Sarajevo In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mlada Bosna (‘Young Bosnia’) gathered students with Yugoslav (South Slavic) orientation. Serbia’s victories against the Turks during the Balkan War in 1912 increased the pro-Serbian and anti-Austrian sentiments in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Tensions between Serbia and Austria-Hungary increased in 1913. […]
Insurgency against Turkish rule A hereditary feudal class and local army leaders (kapetani) who developed from the 17th century became very independent in relation to the sultan. While also Christians had been able to be landlords before, and Muslim peasants serfs, led the development of the 1800s was all the […]
The history of Bosnia and Herzegovina is characterized by the fact that various states have fought for influence over several centuries. The population consists of several ethnic groups, which have at times been at odds with each other. The area that is today Bosnia-Herzegovina was from the 12th century partly […]
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a republic and federal state with a relatively weak federal level. The political system is based on the Dayton Agreement (1995) that followed the Bosnia wars in the first half of the 1990s. The supreme political authority is the UN High Representative, who ensures that the […]