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Bosnia

[ boz-nee-uh ]

noun

  1. a historic region in SE Europe: a former Turkish province; a part of Austria-Hungary (1879–1918) now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.


Bosnia

/ ˈbɒznɪə /

noun

  1. a region of central Bosnia-Herzegovina: belonged to Turkey (1463–1878), to Austria-Hungary (1879–1918), then to Yugoslavia (1918–91)


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  • Bosni·an adjective

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Example Sentences

There were stories of distant strife, in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Northern Ireland, and those stories had the whiff of a different era.

These formations streamed from Rwanda with the same hopeless shuffle as they did from Bosnia and now as they do from Syria.

In that incident, a group of DynCorp employees working as peacekeepers in Bosnia were accused of sex trafficking by a colleague.

In Darfur, the Fur, Zaghawa, and Massaleit peoples have been targeted by the Sudan government, as were Muslims in Bosnia.

The court cleared Serbia in 2007 of committing genocide after the fall of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia.

The bands may be raised and projecting (Bosnia) or be merely painted on a flat, sometimes burnished, surface.

With a few followers, he proceeded through Bosnia and Dalmatia, towards Venice.

We are assured by good authorities that Bosnia was full of Manicheans and Arians as late as the middle of the fifteenth century.

The old soldier who rented opera glasses at the second landing, and who had left a leg in Bosnia, leaned over the railing.

She concentrates her troops on the frontiers of Bosnia, Servia, and Wallachia.

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bo's'nBosnia and Herzegovina