Bosnia and Herzegovina or Bos·ni·a-Her·ze·go·vi·na also Bos·ni·a-Her·ce·go·vi·na  (bŏz'nē-ə-hěrt'sə-gō'vē-nə, -gō-vē'-)   (click for larger image in new window) A country of the northwest Balkan Peninsula. It was a constituent republic of Yugoslavia from 1946 to 1991, when it declared its independence. In 1992 the country erupted in war among Serb, Bosniak, and Croat factions. A peace agreement was reached in November 1995 by Balkan leaders in Dayton, Ohio, which called for the creation of two substates, a Croat-Bosniak federation to govern one half of the country and a Bosnian Serb republic to constitute the other half, united under a newly created national presidency, assembly, court, and central bank. Population: 4,550,000. |
| bosnia-herzegovina | |
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| a mountainous republic of south-central Europe; formerly part of the Ottoman Empire and then a part of Yugoslavia; voted for independence in 1992 but the mostly Serbian army of Yugoslavia refused to accept the vote and began ethnic cleansing in order to rid Bosnia of its Croats and Muslims [syn: Bosnia and Herzegovina] |