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The Bosnian Crisis, also known as the Annexation Crisis (German: Bosnische Annexionskrise, Turkish: Bosna Krizi; Serbo-Croatian: Aneksiona kriza, Анексиона криза) or the First Balkan Crisis, erupted on 5 October 1908 [1] when Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, [a] territories formerly within the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire but under Austro ...
In response, local Croats and Bosniaks set up barricades and machine-gun posts. They halted a column of 60 JNA tanks, but were dispersed by force the following day. More than 1,000 people had to flee the area. This action, nearly seven months before the start of the Bosnian War, caused the first casualties of the Yugoslav Wars in Bosnia.
1992–1995: Bosnian War. 1992: 1992 Yugoslav campaign in Bosnia; 1992–1994: Croat–Bosniak War; 1993–1995: Intra-Bosnian Muslim War; 1993: Submarine incident off Kola Peninsula; 1993: 1993 Cherbourg incident; 1993: 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; 1994–1997: Nordic Biker War; 1994: Battle of Grozny (November 1994) 1994–1996: First ...
Start of the Bosnian-Serbian War; Bosnian-Serbian war (1350-1351) Banate of Bosnia Serbian Empire: Victory. After a failed siege of Bobavc Bosnia regains Hum; Partition of Altomanović (1373) Kingdom of Bosnia Kingdom of Hungary Moravian Serbia: Nikola Altomanović: Victory. Bosnia gains most of Raška; Bosnian-Hungarian war (1387-1390 ...
One such site is the sports complex built for the 1984 Winter Olympics. A 1994 report stated that "the siege has also had a profound effect on the psyche and future of the city's population. The Bosnian Government has reported a soaring suicide rate by Sarajevans, a near doubling of abortions and a 50% drop in births since the siege began." [10]
Bosnian refugees in 1993 Kosovo Albanian refugees in 1999 Kosovo Serb refugees in 1999. The Yugoslav Wars caused one of the largest refugee crises in European history. It is estimated that the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo produced about 2.4 million refugees and an additional 2 million internally displaced persons. [172]
The NATO intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina was a series of actions undertaken by NATO whose stated aim was to establish long-term peace during and after the Bosnian War. [23] NATO's intervention began as largely political and symbolic, but gradually expanded to include large-scale air operations and the deployment of approximately 60,000 ...
The 1992 Yugoslav campaign in Bosnia was a series of engagements between the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and the Territorial Defence Force of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (TO BiH) and then the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) during the Bosnian war. The campaign effectively started on 3 April and ended 19 May.