Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Republika Bosna i Hercegovina
Република Босна и Херцеговина
1992–1995
Anthem: "Jedna si jedina"
"Једна си једина"
(English: "You are the one and only")
  All territory once fully controlled and administered by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War
  Territory internationally recognised as part of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but controlled by other entities during the Bosnian War
CapitalSarajevo
Official languagesSerbo-Croatian[1]
Demonym(s)Bosnian
GovernmentUnitary dominant-party parliamentary republic
Chairman of the Presidency 
• 1992–1996
Alija Izetbegović
Prime Minister 
• 1992
Jure Pelivan
• 1992–1993
Mile Akmadžić
• 1993–1996
Haris Silajdžić
• 1996–1997
Hasan Muratović
LegislatureNational Assembly
Historical eraBreakup of Yugoslavia
1 March 1992
3 March 1992
6 April 1992
18 March 1994
14 December 1995
CurrencyBH Dinar
Calling code+387
ISO 3166 codeBA
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
SFR Yugoslavia
Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Serbo-Croatian: Republika Bosna i Hercegovina / Република Босна и Херцеговина) was a state in Southeastern Europe, existing from 1992 to 1995. It is the direct legal predecessor to the modern-day state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[2]

Bosnia and Herzegovina seceded from the disintegrating Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 3 March 1992. The Bosnian War broke out soon after its Declaration of Independence and lasted for 3 years. Leaders from two of the three main ethnicities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, namely the Serbs and the Croats, separately established the entities of the Republika Srpska and the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, respectively, which were unrecognized by the Bosnian state and international governments.[3] Informally, these events were considered as evidence that the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina represented primarily its Bosniak (mainly Muslim) population, though formally, the presidency and government of the republic was still composed of Serbs and Croats along with Bosniaks.[4][5][6]

Under the Washington Agreement of 1994, however, Bosniaks were joined by Croats of Herzeg-Bosnia, which was abolished by this agreement, in support for the Republic by the formation of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a sub-state joint entity. In 1995, the Dayton Peace Accords joined the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the Serb entity, the Republika Srpska, from that point onward recognized formally as a political sub-state entity without a right of secession, into the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[3][5][7]

The prefix Republic was removed following the co-signing of the Annex 4 of the Dayton Agreement, containing the constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 14 December 1995.

  1. ^ "Ustav RBiH.pdf" (PDF). Fondacija Centar za javno pravo. 14 March 1993. Retrieved 6 March 2019. U Republici Bosni i Hercegovini u službenoj upotrebi je srpskohrvatski odnosno hrvatskosrpski jezik ijekavskog izgovora.
  2. ^ "CONSTITUTION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA" (PDF). The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 June 2013.
  3. ^ a b Holbrooke, Richard C. (1999). To End a War. Modern Library. ISBN 9780375753602.
  4. ^ Hoare, Marko Attila (2004). How Bosnia armed. Saqi Books in association with the Bosnian Institute. ISBN 9780863563676.
  5. ^ a b Simms, Brendan (4 July 2002). Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia. Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 9780140289831.
  6. ^ Bose, Sumantra (2002). Bosnia After Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention. C. Hurst. ISBN 9781850656456.
  7. ^ Vranić, Jelena (2000). The Dayton peace accords: mapping negotiations : based on "To end a war" book by Richard Holbrooke. Fama. ISBN 9789958954917. Retrieved 7 September 2016.

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