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Battle of Kosovo
Bosnian King Tvrtko and other Balkan princes along with Albanians fought under the command of Serbian Prince Lazar. Serbs defeated in the battle of Kosovo. The Turks defeated the Serbs at the famous battle of Kosovo in 1389. They conquered Bosnia in 1463. During the roughly 450 years Bosnia and Herzegovina were under the Ottoman rule, many Christian Slavs became Muslim. A Bosnian Islamic elite gradually developed and ruled the country on behalf of the Turkish overlords. -
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Bosnia Crisis
The Bosnian crisis started in early October 1908 when Austria and Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina territories formerly within the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire. This unilateral action timed to coincide with Bulgaria's declaration of independence from the Ottoman Empire sparked protestations from all the Great Powers and Austria Hungary's Balkan neighbors, Serbia and Montenegro. Serbia officially recognized the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary. -
Pro Hitler croatian puppet state.
Bosnia-Herzegovina annexed by pro-Hitler Croatian puppet state. Thousands of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies are sent to the death camps. -
Bosnia & Herzegovina nutreality
Serbs in Krajina declared independence from the Republic of Croatia; Macedonia. Bosnia-Herzegovina proposed a plan of compromise about the future Yugoslav State. Slovenia and Croatia rejected the plan. Bosnia-Herzegovina declared its sovereignty and neutrality -
Founded independent
Ministerial Council of the EC adopted a declaration, recognized the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina within its present borders. President George Bush signed a decree in recognition of the independence of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia within the present boundaries of these former Yugoslav republics. Bosnian government issued new currency a referendum on the independence of Bosnia-Herzegovina held. Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina declared their own state, claimed Sarajevo the capital 1992. -
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Bosnian War
The Bosnian War took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war was part of the breakup of Yugoslavia. Following the Slovenian and Croatian secessions from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991, the multi-ethnic Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina which was inhabited by mainly Muslim Bosniaks as well as Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats passed a referendum for independence. The war ended on 14 December 1995. -
End of the Bosnian War
Srebrenica over run by Bosnian Serb forces under General Ratko Mladic. Despite the presence of Dutch UN troops, thousands of Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed. NATO air strikes against Serb positions helped Muslim and Croat forces gain. Big territorial ground, expelled thousands of Serb civilians Dayton Peace Agreement signed in Paris created two entities of equal size, one for Bosnian Muslims and Croats, other for Serbs; international peacekeeping force deployed -
Bosnian changes
First Bosnian Muslims and Croats convicted of war crimes in the Hague. There was a new currency. The Konvertibilna Marka entered into circulation in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The national flag of Bosnia-Herzegovina adopted. -
Bosnian general election
General elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina. They decided the makeup of Bosnia and Herzegovina's presidency as well as a federal, entity, and cantonal governments. As of September 2006, there were 2,736,886 registered voters. Of the 2.7 million voters, 1.7 million are in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and 1 million in Republika Srpska. Official voter turnout as reported by the Central Election Commission was 52.74% of the total number of registered voters. -
Radovan Karadžić arrest
A Bosnian Serb named Radovan Karadžić former politician and convicted war criminal who served as the President of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War and sought the unification of that entity with Serbia. He was arrested in 2008 after 13 years on the run.
