The south part of Bosnia has Mediterranean climate and a great deal of agriculture.

By United Nations law, Bosnia has a right of passage to the outer sea.

As of October 2012, the IMF has approved a two-year stand-by arrangement of 405. 3 million euro for Bosnia.

The implementation of the Dayton Accords of 1995 has focused the efforts of policymakers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the international community, on regional stabilization in the countries-successors of the former Yugoslavia.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has an embassy in Sofia.

Recently Croatia has opted to build a bridge to the Pelješac peninsula to connect the Croatian mainland with the exclave but Bosnia and Herzegovina has protested that it will close their way to international waters ( although Croatian territory and territorial waters surround Bosnian-Herzegovinan ones completely ) and has suggested that the bridge must be higher than 55 meters for free passage of all types of ships.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has an embassy in Prague.

Since 1998, Bosnia and Herzegovina has an embassy in Athens.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has an embassy in Budapest.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has an embassy in Bucharest.

Bosnia is one of the countries where Russia has contributed troops for the NATO-led stabilization force.

The United States has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to help with infrastructure, humanitarian aid, economic development, and military reconstruction in Herzegovina and Bosnia.

The U. S. Agency for International Development ( USAID ) and Support for Eastern European Democracies ( SEED ) has played a large role in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, including programs in economic development and reform, democratic reform ( media, elections ), infrastructure development, and training programs for Bosnian professionals, among others.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has no diplomatic relations with:

In the 3 years since the Dayton Accords were signed, over $ 4 billion in foreign aid has flown into Bosnia, about $ 800 million of it coming from SEED funds.

Recently Croatia has opted to build a bridge to the Pelješac peninsula to connect the Croatian mainland with the exclave but Bosnia and Herzegovina has protested that it will close their way to international waters ( although Croatian territory and territorial waters surround Bosnian-Herzegovinan ones completely ) and has suggested that the bridge must be higher than 55 meters for free passage of all types of ships.

It has been successfully evaluated in Cambodia and Bosnia.

Hungary joined the Partnership for Peace program in 1994 and has actively supported the IFOR and SFOR missions in Bosnia.

HK has been accused of shipping small arms to conflict regions such as Bosnia and Nepal, and has licensed its weapons for production by governments with poor human rights records such as Sudan, Thailand and Burma.

The popularity of pršut has helped it spread to other regions of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and other surrounding countries.

In addition to SEED funding, USAID programs have been crucial to the redevelopment of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Key issues over the last decade have been the implementation of the Dayton Accords and the Erdut Agreement, nondiscriminatory facilitation of the return of refugees and displaced persons from the 1991-95 war including property restitution for ethnic Serbs, resolution of border disputes with Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, and general democratization.

More recently, ethnic conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina and genocide in Rwanda have been described as mass-based hate crimes, but the term " hate crime " did not really begin to be used until after World War II and the end of most major government-sanctioned racial cleansing projects that had been linked with official fascism.

They may have been influenced by an earlier religious sect of Armenian " Paulicians ", who became known as the " Bogomils " of Thrace, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Serbia.

Since independence, Bosnian has likewise been established as an official standard in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

They have also participated in U. S. peacekeeping operations in Somalia, Haiti, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bosnia, and Kosovo as well as for natural disasters, strikes, riots and security for the Olympic Games when they have been in the States.

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 Bosnian crisis was a result of Franz Joseph's annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908, which had been occupied by his troops since the Congress of Berlin ( 1878 ).

Bildt has also been noted internationally as a mediator in the Balkan conflict, serving as the European Union's Special Envoy to the Former Yugoslavia from June 1995, co-chairman of the Dayton Peace Conference in November 1995 and as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 1995 to June 1997 immediately after the Bosnian War.

Several international governments criticized Bildt for having been ineffective and too closely affiliated with the Serbs in Bosnia and Serbia.

Parts of the Brigade have been employed many times in the Balkans ( Missions IFOR / SFOR in Bosnia and KFOR in Kosovo ), with MNF in Albania and Mission INTERFETd to East Timor.

In reviewing the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) Bosnian Genocide Case in the judgement of Jorgic v. Germany on July 12, 2007 the European Court of Human Rights quoted from the ICJ ruling on the Bosnian Genocide Case to draw a distinction between ethnic cleansing and genocide. The term ' ethnic cleansing ' has frequently been employed to refer to the events in Bosnia and Herzegovina which are the subject of this case ... General Assembly resolution 47 / 121 referred in its Preamble to ' the abhorrent policy of ' ethnic cleansing ', which is a form of genocide ', as being carried on in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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.

During the Great Turkish War ( 1667 – 1698 ), Slavonia was regained in 1687 when the Ottomans abandoned the region — unlike western Bosnia, which had been part of Croatia before the Ottoman conquest.

The first U. S. troops moved into Bosnia in early December 1995, and by late January 1996 the full complement of 20, 000 had been deployed.

In some recent cases, federations have been a measure to handle with ethnic conflict within a state, such as Bosnia and Hercegovina and Iraq since 2005.

She was the first female member of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving from 18 November 1990 until April 1992 after having been elected in the first multi-party elections in 1990 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The first official mention of the settlement is from 1415, as it was written in the charter issued by Dubrovnik to Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, although there are numerous artefacts and objects that have been found ( The National Museum of Bosnia / Herzegovina in Sarajevo & The Regional Museum in Doboj ) and which confirm the fact that the area had been inhabited ever since the early stone age, and that the Roman Empire had an army camp ( Castrum ) and a settlement ( Canabea ) in the vicinity of the town dating from the 1st century AD.

With a boom of neologisms in Croatia, an additional emphasis on Turkisms in the Muslim parts of Bosnia and a privileged position of the Cyrillic script in Serb inhabited parts of the new states, every state and entity showed a ' nationalization ' of the language.

During the Bronze Age, Bosnia was inhabited by people of supposed Indo-European stock, commonly referred to by ancient Greeks and later Romans by a single name, Illyrians.

Tihomir Blaskic was in command of the HVO troops in the Lašva valley in central Bosnia, which was inhabited, in the majority, by Muslims and Croats.

As this definition implied that large areas of continental Croatia, Dalmatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, including areas inhabited by Roman Catholics-Vuk Karadžić is considered by some to be the progenitor of the Greater Serbia program.

Following the Slovenian and Croatian secessions from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991, the multi-ethnic Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was inhabited by Muslim Bosniaks ( 44 percent ), Orthodox Serbs ( 31 percent ) and Catholic Croats ( 17 percent ), passed a referendum for independence on 29 February 1992.

Ilidža is one of the longest continuously inhabited regions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

On June 22, 2003, he visited Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a city inhabited by many Catholics before the 1992-1995 war, but since then predominantly Orthodox.

Most of the film was shot on location in Višegrad, Republika Srpska ( Serb inhabited entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the time still governed by Radovan Karadžić ), often in places that were former battlefields.