* 1925 – Alija Izetbegović, Bosniak politician, 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( d. 2003 )

Stari Most | Old Bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina is located in Southeastern Europe, in the western Balkans.

The country's name comes from the two regions Bosnia and Herzegovina, which have a very vaguely defined border between them.

Bosnia occupies the northern areas which are roughly four fifths of the entire country, while Herzegovina occupies the rest in the south part of the country.

The major cities are the capital Sarajevo, Banja Luka in the northwest region known as Bosanska Krajina, Bijeljina and Tuzla in the northeast, Zenica and Doboj in the central part of Bosnia and Mostar, the capital of Herzegovina.

Eastern Bosnia is heavily forested along the river Drina, and overall close to 50 % of Bosnia and Herzegovina is forested.

There are seven major rivers in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina:

* The Sava river is the largest river in Bosnia and Herzegovina but not the largest river that is flowing through Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Sava river flows through Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.

Sava is making a natural border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia and towns like Brčko, Bosanski Šamac, Bosanska Gradiška lies on the river.

Phytogeographically, Bosnia and Herzegovina belongs to the Boreal Kingdom and is shared between the Illyrian province of the Circumboreal Region and Adriatic province of the Mediterranean Region.

According to the WWF, the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina can be subdivided into three ecoregions: the Pannonian mixed forests, Dinaric Mountains mixed forests and Illyrian deciduous forests.

* List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina

* Bosnia and Herzegovina

es: Geografía de Bosnia y Herzegovina

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the head of government, and of a multi-party system.

On 12 April 2004, Sulejman Tihić, then Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, filed a request with the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the review of constitutionality of Articles 1 and 2 of the Law on the Coat of Arms and Flag of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Official Gazette of Federation of BiH No. 21 / 96 and 26 / 96 ), Articles 1, 2 and 3 of the Constitutional Law on the Flag, Coat of Arms and Anthem of the Republika Srpska ( Official Gazette of the Republika Srpska No. 19 / 92 ), Articles 2 and 3 of the Law on the Use of Flag, Coat of Arms and Anthem ( Official Gazette of the Republika Srpska No. 4 / 93 ) and Articles 1 and 2 of the Law on the Family Patron-Saint ’ s Days and Church Holidays of the Republika Srpska ( Official Gazette of Republika Srpska No. 19 / 92 ).

Gaddafi aligned himself with the Orthodox Serbs against Bosnia and Herzegovina's Muslims and Kosovo's Albanians.

He defended Salman Rushdie, the novelist who was subject to a fatwā requiring Rushdie's execution by Ayatollah Khomeini, and took a strongly pro-interventionist position against Serbia during its conflict with Croatia and Bosnia, supporting NATO forces whilst citing defence of civilian populations in the latter countries.

In August 1995, the Croatian military forced Serbian Armed Forces, withdraw from Croatian territory ethnically cleansing the Serbian population in the process, and NATO now focused it's attention on launching a major offensive operation against Serbian Armed Forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

** The final fighting in Croatian and Bosnian wars ends in 1995 with the success of Croatian military offensives against Serb forces and the mass exodus of Serbs from Croatia in 1995 ; Serb losses to Croat and Bosniak forces ; and finally the signing of the Dayton Agreement which internally partitioned Bosnia and Herzegovina into a Republika Srpska and a Bosniak-Croat federation.

* August 4 – Croatian forces launch Operation Storm against Serbian forces in Krajina, with the cooperation of the ARBiH, and force them to withdraw to central Bosnia and Herzegovina.

* August 30 – The NATO bombing campaign against Serb artillery positions begins in Bosnia and Herzegovina, continuing into October.

At the same time, ARBiH forces begin an offensive against the Bosnian Serb Army around Sarajevo, central Bosnia, and Bosnian Krajina.

** Bosnian War: Serb troops, following a mass rebellion of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Bosnian declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, besiege the city of Sarajevo.

* May 12 – The United States recalls United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia Warren Zimmermann to protest military aggression against Bosnia and Hercegovina.

* Pope Gregory IX calls for a crusade against Bosnia, and replaces the Bogumil Bosnian Bishop with a Catholic Dominican German, Johann.

Pollen has been used to trace activity at mass graves in Bosnia, catch a burglar who brushed against a Hypericum bush during a crime, and has even been proposed as an additive for bullets to enable tracking them.

The Chetniks, who increasingly collaborated with the Germans and Italians throughout the war, carried out massacres against the Croat and Muslim population of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sandžak.

Milošević was subsequently sent to the ICTY and was indicted on charges of crimes against humanity in Kosovo, charges of violating the laws or customs of war, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions in Croatia and Bosnia and for complicity in genocide in Bosnia.

Pollen has been used to trace activity at mass graves in Bosnia, catch a burglar who brushed against a Hypericum bush during a crime, and has even been proposed as an additive for bullets to enable tracking them.

Category: Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina convicted of crimes against humanity

The Hungarians undertook many crusades against the heretics in Bosnia, but towards the close of the 15th century, the conquest of that country by the Turks put an end to their persecution.

After service as a Royal Marine and as an intelligence officer for the UK security services, Ashdown was a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001, and leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until August 1999 ; later he was the international High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 27 May 2002 to 30 May 2006, following his vigorous lobbying for military action against Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

Ulrich of Celje, a Slovenian magnate and heir to Bosnia, the cousin of Ladislaus's mother, prevailed against Eyczing and became the new guardian of the child, effectively ruling in his stead.

Perhaps the most famous Janissaries were George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, son of a despot in northern Albania who later defected and led a 20 &# 8209 ; year Albanian revolt against the Ottomans, and Sokollu Mehmed Paşa, a Serbian peasant from Bosnia who later became a grand vizier, served three sultans, and was de facto ruler of the Ottoman Empire for more than 14 years.

In the early 1990s, Masri lived in Bosnia, with a forged identity document, where he fought alongside Bosniaks against Serbs and Croats during the Bosnian War.

Instead, war immediately broke out across the country as Serb and Yugoslav Army forces took control of large areas of Bosnia against the opposition of poorly-equipped government security forces.

From around this time onwards, NATO became increasingly involved in the conflict with occasional " pinprick " bombings conducted against the Bosnian Serbs, generally following violations of ceasefires and the no-fly zone over Bosnia.

More recently under President Clinton, war powers were at issue in former Yugoslavia ; Bosnia ; Kosovo ; Iraq, and Haiti, and under President George W. Bush in responding to terrorist attacks against the U. S. after September 11, 2001.