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The partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina was discussed and attempted during the 20th century. The issue came to prominence during the Bosnian War , which also involved Bosnia and Herzegovina 's largest neighbors, Croatia and Serbia .
A Bosniak republic, or Bosniak entity, was proposed during the Bosnian War when plans for the partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina were made. It would either be established as one of three ethnic states in a loose confederation, [1] or as an independent "Bosniak state" in the area controlled by the Bosnian Army, as unofficially proposed by some Bosniak leaders.
On 20 August, the U.N. mediators Thorvald Stoltenberg and David Owen unveiled a map that would partition Bosnia into a union of three ethnic republics, [12] in which Bosnian Serb forces would be given 53 percent of Bosnia-Herzegovina's territory, Muslims would be allotted 30 percent and Bosnian-Herzegovina Croats would receive 17 percent.
A referendum on the Contact Group plan was held in Republika Srpska on 28 August 1994, after the National Assembly had rejected the plan on 8 August. [1] [2] The plan would give 49% of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Serbs, around a third less than they held at the time. [3]
The present political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina are based on Annex 4 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace, also known as Dayton Agreement, concluded at the Dayton Peace Conference in November 1995, and subsequently signed in Paris on December 14, 1995. A key component of this was the delineation of the Inter-Entity Boundary ...
Bosnia and Herzegovina Herzeg-Bosnia Croatia Srpska Serbian Krajina Western Bosnia FR Yugoslavia: Stalemate. Internal partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina according to the Dayton Accords; Over 101,000 dead, mainly Bosniaks; First genocide in Europe since World War II; Deployment of NATO-led forces to oversee the peace agreement
The flag of the Partisan detachments of Bosnia-Herzegovina The Yugoslav Partisans formed operational detachments in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the German -led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia during World War II. These detachments were formed to conduct local operations against the occupying powers and those collaborating with them, and a total of 108 detachments were created in Bosnia and ...
Map of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1998; 1992 — Bosnia and Herzegovina declares independence from Yugoslavia on March 1 and is formally recognised on April 6. A civil war breaks out, and as the result of the war, two largely autonomous entities are formed: Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika ...