Bosnia and Herzegovina

Yugoslavia was composed of 6 different Republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia) and 7 different ethnic groups( Bosniaks, Croats, Slovenes, Serbs, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Albanians) which were apart of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1991. Yugoslavia was held together and was…

nationalism played a role in the commencement of the war, however the very first incident was not caused by nationalism, but rather assassination. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, were brutally assassinated by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Although people believe that the assassination…

Croatia-Slavonia to the north, and Dalmatia to the south, and Serbia/Montenegro to the east/southeast was taken over by the Romans” (Gall and Gleason paragraph 6) that took them hundreds of years to be able to completely gain control of the country. “Bosnia and Herzegovina was particularly affected by the abolition of many traditional institutions” (Lampe, paragraph 1), meaning that religions and ethnicity had a very large impact on the Bosnian War. In the other hand, “manipulation of the…

a freshman attending the University of Florida. Her UFID is 31301122 and she is planning on majoring in Mathematics. She is currently enrolled in MAC2311. I met Merisa near the living learning center dorms in the Yulee Area. Merisa is from Bosnia and Herzegovina and has just moved to the United States less than a month ago. To start off the interview I asked some background questions such as why Merisa choose to come to the U.S. and how long she has been here. Her response was that she came for…

initiated a large repressive drive in Kosovo that ended the province’s autonomy within Serbia, dismissed tens of thousands of Kosovars…from their jobs, and made Kosovo ‘one large militia camp’” (Jones 319). Many people throughout Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina were also dismissed from their jobs at times without getting paid. This of-course only escalated the problem and grew the…

This was the Bosnian Herzegovina genocide. During the Bosnian genocide, approximately 7-8,000 muslims were killed. The reason why this genocide and civil war occurred was because of the past tensions between Serbia and Bosnia. Types of tensions that occurred was territoriality and ethnic tensions. Before the tensions between Bosnia and Serbia, they were united as Yugoslavia in the 1980’s and 90’s. They dealt with ethnic conflicts…

To understand this senseless murder/assassination, one has to examine the 1878 Treaty of Berlin, which recognized Serbia as a sovereign state, but diminished the size of the Kingdom of Serbia and allowed the occupation of Austria-Hungary by Bosnia and Herzegovina. Over the ensuing decades, Serbia’s discontent increased and between 1909 and 1914, Serbian nationalists attempted several unsuccessful assassinations against Austro-Hungarian officials (New World Encyclopedia). On July 28th, 1914 the…

The nation of Yugoslavia was created in the aftermath of World War I. However, this nation only lasted from 1918 to 1941, when it was invaded by Axis powers during World War II. In 1943, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) was established under the rule of authoritarian leader Josip Broz Tito. Tito allowed each of the different regions in the Republic of Yugoslavia to have their own constitutions, laws, and elected leaders and these regions experienced great autonomy during…

Cassie Niemeier Bosnia List Paper Anyone who says that history is black and white clearly slept through class. There is no simplicity to history. Most events in history are like a Jenga tower. Events stack on top of each other creating a less stable structure until it collapses in on itself, or war breaks out. The Bosnian genocide seems very simple on the surface. In fact, genocide is a rare simple thing in history, a group of people want to eliminate another group of people because the…

intersecting in the country of Croatia. The actual name of Croatia is the Republika Harvatska. Croatia is 21,831 square miles (Croatia) and is located in the Balken peninsula bordering the Adriatic Sea. The countries that border Croatia are Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro and Slovenia. Croatia is an interesting country with a unique history, and is rich with culture. Croatia has a very interesting history, its three independences. First independence was, from the Rome…