Abstract
Settled by Slavs in the 7th century, Bosnia was conquered by the Turks in 1463 when much of the population was gradually converted to Islam. At the Congress of Berlin (1878) the territory was assigned to Austria-Hungary under nominal Turkish suzerainty. Austria-Hungary’s outright annexation in 1908 contributed to the outbreak of the First World War. After 1918 Bosnia and Herzegovina became part of a new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Its name was changed to Yugoslavia in 1929. (See SERBIA and MONTENEGRO for developments up to and beyond the Second World War.)
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Further Reading
Bieber, Florian, Post-War Bosnia: Ethnicity, Inequality and Public Sector Governance. 2005
Burg, Steven L. and Shoup, Paul S., The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina. 1999
Hoare, Marko Attila, The History of Bosnia: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day. 2006
Malcolm, N., Bosnia: a Short History. 3rd ed. 2002
National Statistical Office: Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zelenih beretki 26, 71000 Sarajevo.
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(2022). Bosnia and Herzegovina. In: The Statesman’s Yearbook 2023. The Statesman's Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-96056-9_32
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