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Bosnia and Herzegovina [a] (Serbo-Croatian: Bosna i Hercegovina, Босна и Херцеговина), [b] [c] sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe, situated on the Balkan Peninsula. It borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to the north and southwest.
This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries , the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies.
The location of Bosnia and Herzegovina An enlargeable map of the Bosnia and Herzegovina. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosnia and Herzegovina – country in Southwestern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. It comprises two autonomous entities: the Federation of Bosnia and ...
Bosnia and Herzegovina, like many countries, is made of geographical, historical, and political regions. The current geopolitical regions were finalised with the signing of the Dayton Agreement . [ 1 ]
Coronation of King Tomislav, painted by Oton Iveković. Croats settled the areas of modern Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 7th century. [3] [4] [5] Constantine VII in De Administrando Imperio writes that Croats settled Dalmatia and from there they settled Illyricum and Pannonia [6] There, they assimilated with native Illyrians and Romans during the great migration of the Slavs.
The present political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina are based on Annex 4 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace, also known as Dayton Agreement, concluded at the Dayton Peace Conference in November 1995, and subsequently signed in Paris on December 14, 1995. A key component of this was the delineation of the Inter-Entity Boundary ...
The Croatian diaspora outside Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina amounts to close to a million elsewhere in Europe, and to about 1.7 million overseas. The largest overseas community is reported from the United States at 1,200,000, Chile at 400,000, and Argentina with 250,000 people.