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14 unusual facts about Bosnia and Herzegovina


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision

Pelin then pointed to a blip on the screen approaching Kostajnica.

Arbanaška

:for the village in Bosnia and Herzegovina see Arbanaška, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bojan Petrić

Still young, he moved to Bosanski Brod (name simply as Brod nowadays as part of the Republika Srpska, the Serbian entity within Bosnia), a town on the Bosnian side of the river, where he begin playing with local side FK Polet Bosanski Brod.

Bosna

Bosnia and Herzegovina or Bosna i Hercegovina, a country in southern Europe

Dinaric

The term Dinaric comes from the name of a mountain called Dinara, on the border of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Ernst von Mansfeld

He set out for Venice, but when he reached Rakowitza near Sarajevo, in Bosnia, he was taken ill, and here he died on 29 November 1626.

Gradiška

Gradiška, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a town in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hedum Kastelum

Hedum Kastelum was an ancient city located in central Bosnia, in the modern-day town of Breza, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Nicholas Ribic

The May 1995 worldwide television and newspapers coverage showed the shocking photo of a distraught Capt. Rechner chained to a lightning rod at an ammunition bunker in the Bosnian city of Pale.

Serbian cross

A monument in Šamac, Republika Srpska, Bosnia-Herzegovina for the Serbs who fought and died in the Bosnian war, has the Serbian eagle in the center, the years which the war occurred (1992-1995) and the Serbian slogan: "Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava" on the left and right sides.

Stig'o ćumur

"Listen to folk, dance, house, and the rest of the scene. No one is forcing you to listen to me," Edo says in the first track of his third album, in which he dedicates the album to Breza's coal miners and the hard life of coal mining.

Veldin Karić

According to Karić, he had been arrested by the JNA in 1992 and was taken to Pale, the Serbian stronghold during the Siege of Sarajevo, where he was delivered as a prisoner to Serbian paramilitary forces.

Visoko

Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a city and municipality in central Bosnia and Herzegovina

Žilavka

Production is generally focused in the area south of Mostar around the villages of Čitluk, Međugorje, Ljubuški, and Čapljina with notable producers such as Nuić, Škegro, Brkić, Vinarija Čitluk, and Vitai/Gangaš.


1996 Sarajevo tram attack

The 1996 Sarajevo tram attack occurred on 9 January 1996 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Abdul Rasul Sayyaf

During the post-war period, Sayyaf retained his training camps, using them for militarily training and indoctrinating new recruits to fight in Islamic-backed conflicts such as Chechnya, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in the Southern Philippines, where his name inspired the Abu Sayyaf group.

Colt Canada C7 rifle

The C7A1 was first issued to field units of Logcoy/Danbn/Dancon of the Danish International Brigade, in October–November 1995 shortly before the transition from UNPROFOR to IFOR in Bosnia.

Damir Kaletović

Damir Kaletović is a controversial reporter from Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Damir Krupalija

Damir Krupalija (born June 13, 1979) is a Bosnian American professional basketball player born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia.

Danubian endemic familial nephropathy

It was first identified in the 1920s among several small, discrete communities along the Danube River and its major tributaries, in the modern countries of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria.

Dinaric race

According to the Dinaric model, Dinarics were to be found in the mountainous areas of Southeast Europe: Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Slovenia, Austria, part of northwestern Bulgaria, and northwestern Republic of Macedonia.

Donji Vrbljani

Donji Vrbljani is a village in the municipality of Ribnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Džemal Hadžiabdić

Džemaludin "Džemal" Hadžiabdić, commonly known as Jamal Haji (born July 25, 1953 in Mostar), is a Bosnian left back who represented SFR Yugoslavia.

Édouard-Alfred Martel

He traveled throughout Europe, Belgium, Dalmatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, where he investigated the course of the Trebišnjica, considered the one of the longest underground rivers in the world.

Franciscan monastery in Fojnica

Franciscan monastery of the Holy Spirit is a Bosnian Franciscan monastery in Fojnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Gordan Vidović

Gordan Vidović (born 23 June 1968 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a former football player who played for the Belgium national team.

Hadi Norouzi

He started his International Career under Afshin Ghotbi in August 2009 against Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Haris Handžić

Haris Handžić (born 20 June 1990 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Bosnian football player currently playing as a striker for Lichtenstein club Vaduz in Swiss Challenge League.

HKK Čapljina Lasta

Hrvatski košarkaški klub Čapljina is a professional basketball club from Čapljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

HMLA-167

These detachments supported numerous contingency operations to include: Operation Joint Endeavor in Bosnia, Operation Silver Wake in Albania and Operation Guardian Retrieval and Operation Noble Obelisk in Africa.

IrfanView

--spelling & no accents per author's webpage-->, from Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, living in Vienna.

Ivan Fijolić

He has three realized public sculptures: Foundation Batta, Zlín, the Czech Republic, Black Foot,in the Park of Sculptures, Vrsar, Croatia, and the Mostar Bruce Lee statue, in the town of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Iván Peñaranda

From there onwards Peñaranda's career went downhill, as he never settled in a team and often changed countries, until his definite release by Milan in June 2006: abroad, he played in Mexico for C.F. Pachuca, Bosnia and Herzegovina for FK Slavija (Sarajevo) and in Azerbaijan with Neftchi Baku PFC, appearing in the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League preliminary rounds with the latter.

Ivana Ninković

Ivana Ninković (born 15 December 1995 in Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Bosnian swimmer who swims for Swimming Club ' Olymp ' Banja Luka and for Bosnia and Herzegovina national swim team.

İzmit Clock Tower

In the former Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire, particularly in present-day Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin towns such as Belgrade, Prijepolje, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Gradačac and Stara Varoš, similar Ottoman era clock towers are still named Sahat Kula (deriving from the Turkish words Saat Kulesi, meaning Clock Tower.)

Jasmin Džeko

Jasmin Džeko (born November 15, 1958 in Doboj, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian defender who played for SFR Yugoslavia.

Joseph Lee Hooker

Eventually his faith, and his self-admitted need for conversion, led him to Medjugorje, in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, where on Easter Sunday of 1990, he met his wife, Bridget, an American also on a pilgrimage.

Josip Iličić

Josip Iličić was born in Prijedor, present day Bosnia and Herzegovina and moved to Slovenia after the death of his father when he was only one year old, together with his mother Ana and brother Igor.

KK Igokea

Laktaši Sports Hall (Serbian Cyrillic: Хала спортова у Лакташима) is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in the city of Laktaši, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Kosovo Campaign Medal

The Air Campaign refers to any flight operations which are performed in the land area and air space of Serbia (including Kosovo), Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, and Slovenia, as well as the waters and air space of the Adriatic and Ionian Sea, provided such flight operations are in direct support of Kosovo peacekeeping actions.

Márcio Sousa

In 2004 Sousa played for the under-19s in the 2005 European Championship qualifiers, netting against Bosnia and Herzegovina, but the country failed to ensure a place in the finals in Northern Ireland.

Marko Bruerović

In 1793 he was engaged for 4 years in diplomatic work in Travnik (Bosnia and Herzegovina) as merchant attaché, where he also helped the Jewish merchants (based in Sarajevo).

Milan Radonjić

Consequently and especially after Serbian law prohibited TV card readings, he started working at five television stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including nationwide OBN television based in Sarajevo, and a number of television stations in Croatia, including nationwide Nova TV based in Zagreb.

Mostar Youth Theatre 1974

Mostar Youth Theatre 1974. is an independent community theatre group in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Muamer Svraka

He got his international debut for Bosnia and Herzegovina on 31 May 2012 in a friendly match against Mexico on Soldier Field in Chicago which Bosnia and Herzegovina lost 2–1 in the dying minutes of the match due to a catastrophic mistake by Stojan Vranješ.

Nataša Ninković

Ninković was born on 22 July 1972 in Trebinje (SFR Yugoslavia then, Bosnia and Herzegovina now) to father Branko and mother Milena.

Nehemiah Hayyun

His parents, of Sephardic descent, lived in Sarajevo, Bosnia (then a part of the Ottoman Empire), where probably he was born, although in later life he pretended that he was a Palestinian emissary born in Safed.

Neum Agreement

The Neum Agreement is an unimplemented treaty between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina granting free passage of transit traffic between the territory of Dubrovnik-Neretva County around the city of Dubrovnik and forming a pene-exclave of Croatia and the remaining Croatian territory through the municipality of Neum.

Nino Bule

Nino Bule (born 19 March 1976 in Čapljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is a retired Croatian footballer who played as a striker.

Obudovac

Obudovac is a village in the municipality of Šamac, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Pod, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Pod was a prehistoric settlement and hill fort located on a plateau on a slope of Mt Koprivnica near Bugojno in the upper valley of the river Vrbas in modern Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Robert Edward Crozier Long

The stewing Balkan cauldron erupted again during late June, 1914, with the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, at Sarajevo, Bosnia.

Rugby union in Azerbaijan

They played two matches; one on 29 April 2006 against Luxembourg at Baku, and one on 14 May 2006 against Bosnia and Herzegovina at Zenica.

Sarajevo school of pop rock

The Sarajevo school of pop rock collectively refers to the popular music created between 1960 and 1991 by artists and bands native to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then part of Yugoslavia).

Skakavac Waterfall, Perućica

Perućica primeval forest is situated underneath of the highest peak in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Maglić (2386 m), and separated from the Zelengora mountain with the Sutjeska river and its impressive, deep and rugged canyon.

Srebrenik Fortress

Srebrenik Fortress (Bosnian: Utvrda Srebrenik) is a fortress located near the town of Srebrenik in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Tolj

Tolj is a Serbo-Croatian surname of a family originating from a small town called Greda in the district of Ljubuški in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Triplex Confinium

There was an actual place named the Triplex Confinium after the treaty of peace of Karlowitz (Sremski Karlovci) in 1699 and today it is a territory belonging to the Republics of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (the very point where empires met was Medveđak, today Medveđa Glavica, at the top of Debelo Brdo, a mountain northeast of Knin).

Vahidin Musemić

Vahidin Musemić (born 29 October 1946 in Janja near Bijeljina, PR Bosnia-Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia) is a famous Bosnian football player.

Vlado Zadro

Vlado Zadro (born 17 March 1987 in Mostar) is a professional Bosnian football player currently playing in Premier League club Široki Brijeg.

Željko Lelek

Željko Lelek (born 9 February 1962, Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina) was the first individual indicted for the mass rape crimes that were a feature of the expulsion of the Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) population of the town of Višegrad, as part of the strategic campaign of ethnic cleansing carried out in the Drina Valley in the early days of the Bosnian War.

Zenit Đozić

Zenit Đozić (born 8 October 1961 in Bugojno, PR Bosnia-Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian actor, humorist and television producer.

Zoran Redžić

Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, he is a younger brother of another Bosnian musician Fadil Redžić from band Indexi.