* 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.

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.

Category: Bosnia and Herzegovina female singers

In Bosnia Sava could also be a female name, a result of the tradition of naming female children like rivers – in this case, after the river Sava.

Category: Bosnia and Herzegovina female singers

Category: Bosnia and Herzegovina female singers

The sport is also very popular on the eastern side of the Adriatic, especially in Slovenia ( where it is known as balinanje or colloquial playing boče or bale from Italian bocce or palle meaning balls ), Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Hercegovina ( in Serbo-Croatian known under the name of boćanje or simply playing boće ( colloquial also bućanje or playing balote ), originating in Italian boccie ).

The Bosnian group went under the name Mlada Bosna ( Young Bosnia ).

* Operation Corridor, the name of a Serb operation in Bosnia in 1992

Turan is also a common name in the Middle East, and as family surnames in some countries including Bahrain, Iran, Bosnia and Turkey.

* Slobomir is a new town in Bosnia and Herzegovina and its name means: " the city of freedom and peace ".

Otto von Habsburg ( 20 November 1912 4 July 2011 ), also known by his royal name as Archduke Otto of Austria, was the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary from 1916 until the dissolution of the empire in 1918, a realm which comprised modern-day Austria, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, and parts of Italy, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine.

Large numbers took refuge in Bosnia, where they were known under the name of Patarenes or Patareni.

" With the death of Kallay the policy was abandoned and in 1907 the name was changed to Serbo-Croatian, and this was the official language of Bosnia and Herzegovina throughout the parliamentary period, from the annexation until the dissolution of Austria-Hungary after World War I.

Slobomir is a new town in Bosnia and Herzegovina and its name means: " the city of freedom and peace ".

Matura or a similar term ( Matur, Maturita, Maturità, Maturität, Mатура ) is the common name for the high-school exit exam or " maturity exam " in various countries, including Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland, as well as among Ukrainian émigrés.

It had more versions and names: arvacko pismo or arvatica, meaning the script used by Croats ; this name was used in Povaljska listina ; bosanica or bosančica, meaning the script of the region of Bosnia ); and begovica ( used by beys ); poljičica, meaning from the Poljica region of southern Croatia.

* 2004: Two days after her death, the mayor of Sarajevo announced the city would name a street after her, calling her an " author and a humanist who actively participated in the creation of the history of Sarajevo and Bosnia.

Tvrtko added " Stefan " to his name when he was crowned king of the Serbs and Bosnia.

Members of the regiment have served on Operation RECUPERATION, in the Golan Heights, Korea, South Africa, Cambodia, Cyprus, Bosnia, and Afghanistan to name only a few and of course, both World Wars and the Boer War.

In large parts of the Muslim world, particularly Iran, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Central Asia, Somalia and South Asia, it is the name commonly given to local Islamic clerics or mosque leaders.

Operation Storm ( Croatian / Bosnian / Serbian: Operacija Oluja, Cyrillic: Oпeрaциja Oлуja ) is the code name given to a large-scale military operation carried out by Croatian Armed Forces, in conjunction with the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina retaking control of the Krajina region that had been in Serb hands since 1991.

Self-taught people, mostly in two or three members of the different choices of old instruments, mostly in the violin, sacking, saz, drums, flutes ( zurle ) or wooden flute, as others have already called, the original performers of Bosnian music that can not be written notes, transmitted by ear from generation to generation, family is usually nasljedna. Smatra to be brought from Persia-Kalesi tribe that settled in the area of present Sprecanski valleys and hence probably the name Kalesiji. U this part of Bosnia is najrasprostranjenija. Ponovo became the leader of First World War onwards, as well as 60 years in the field Sprecanski doline. Ovu kind of music enjoyed by all three peoples in Bosnia, Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs, and she contributed a lot to reconcile people socializing, entertainment and other organizations through festivala. U Kalesija each year maintained and the Bosnian Festival Original music

In 2004, the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared the name change unconstitutional, and reverted it to Foča, until the National Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina passes an appropriate law.

Eventually, in late 1995, after the Dayton Peace Accord was signed thus ending the war in Bosnia, the newsletter expanded its area of focus to other global trouble spots ( initially mainly focusing on ex-Soviet republics ) and adjusted its name to simply War Report.

The Herzegovina Uprising of 1875-1878 (, ) was an uprising led by Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, firstly in Herzegovina ( hence its name ) and then in Bosnia.