Category: Bosnia and Herzegovina

State structure and political system of Bosnia and Herzegovina The state-building process of Bosnia and Herzegovina is in its initial stages. This is a state with a unique form of structure and government, combining elements of federation and confederation (the institution of collective presidency, the presence of two armies, etc.). The Constitution adopted in 1995…

The merging of Orient and Occident is omnipresent in Bosnia-Herzegovina and shapes the cityscape in many places where mosques and churches have stood side by side for centuries. The multi-ethnic population consisting of Muslim Bosniaks, Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats has always interwoven the legacy of different cultures and thus developed a character of its…

Literature The literature in Bosnia and Herzegovina is closely related to other South Slavic literature and has often been treated as part of the Serbian and Croatian literature, respectively. The first known books are church books that date to the 12th century and are mostly written in the Kyrgyz language with Glagolitic or Cyrillic writing….

In 1875 Bosnia decided to take the field against Turkey. He met the sympathies of the Italians who immediately activated themselves to activate the insurgents. At this point the Turkish government, worried about the turn the events were taking, hastened to make important concessions, such as the change of all local governors, freedom of religion…