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Among the several comprehensive histories, Robert J. Donia and John V.A. Fine, Jr., Bosnia and Hercegovina: A Tradition Betrayed (1994); and Noel Malcolm, Bosnia: A Short History, new, updated ed. (1996), both concentrate on the Ottoman period. Marko Attila Hoare, The History of Bosnia: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day (2007), is a more-detailed survey that focuses on the 20th century and the experience in the two Yugoslavias. The several-sided religious, architectural, and literary heritage from the medieval period forward is addressed in Ivan Lovrenović, Bosnia: A Cultural History (2001). The argument for a loosely Latin Bosnian church in the pre-Ottoman period and against the heretical “Bogomil” interpretation is presented in John V.A. Fine, Jr., The Bosnian Church: A New Interpretation (2007). The influence of the Habsburg period is treated in Peter F. Sugar, Industrialization of Bosnia-Hercegovina, 1878–1914 (1964); and Robin Okey, Taming Balkan Nationalism: The Habsburg “Civilizing Mission” in Bosnia, 1878–1914 (2007). The background to the assassination of Franz Ferdinand is dramatically presented in Vladimir Dedijer, The Road to Sarajevo (1966); while the city’s history is instructively surveyed in Robert J. Donia, Sarajevo: A Biography (2006). World War II in Bosnia and Herzegovina is discussed in the relevant chapters of Jozo Tomasevich, War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945: Occupation and Collaboration (2001).
Interest in the Bosniaks is served by Mark Pinson (ed.), The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Their Historic Development from the Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia, 2nd ed. (1996); and Francine Friedman, The Bosnian Muslims: Denial of a Nation (1996). Robert J. Donia, Islam Under the Double Eagle: The Muslims of Bosnia and Hercegovina, 1878–1914 (1981), is also pertinent. Two anthropological studies are Tone Bringa, Being Muslim the Bosnian Way: Identity and Community in a Central Bosnian Village (1995); and William G. Lockwood, European Moslems: Economy and Ethnicity in Western Bosnia (1975).
Analysis on the post-Yugoslav warfare of the 1990s and the Dayton protectorate began with Ivana Nizich, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, 2 vol. (1992–93); and Steven L. Burg and Paul S. Shoup, The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ethnic Conflict and International Intervention (1999). Concentrating on the uneasy combination of the Bosniak-Croat Federation and the Republika Srpska since 1996 are Francine Friedman, Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Polity on the Brink (2004); and Florian Bieber, Post-war Bosnia: Ethnicity, Inequality, and Public Sector Governance (2006).
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| Country Profile: Updated International authority. | Sep 02, 2026 | ||
| Top Questions added. | Jun 12, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC News - Bosnia-Herzegovina country profile. | Dec 30, 2025 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated head of state. | Mar 20, 2024 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated Head of state. | Jul 25, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: CRW Flags - Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina. | Jul 03, 2023 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated Head of government. | Jan 24, 2023 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated Head of state. | Nov 17, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: globalEDGE - Bosnia and Herzegovina. | Aug 20, 2022 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated Head of state and International authority. | Mar 21, 2022 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated head of state. | Jul 21, 2021 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated head of state. | Nov 24, 2020 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated head of state. | Mar 24, 2020 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated head of government. | Dec 09, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic Kids - Countries - Bosnia and Herzegovina. | Oct 18, 2019 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated head of state. | Jul 22, 2019 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated head of state. | Nov 20, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Tourism Site of Bosnia and Herzegovina. | Mar 28, 2018 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated head of state. | Mar 23, 2018 | ||
| Revised translation of Serb Democratic Party. | Mar 08, 2018 | ||
| Media added. | Dec 06, 2017 | ||
| Updated for the conclusion of the ICTY's mandate. | Dec 06, 2017 | ||
| Country Profile: Expanded country profile. | Oct 06, 2017 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated head of state. | Aug 01, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | May 19, 2017 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated head of state. | Mar 13, 2017 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated form of government. | Mar 13, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Globalsecurity.org - Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Introduction. | Dec 04, 2016 | ||
| "Bosniac" changed to "Bosniak." | Aug 09, 2016 | ||
| In Economy section, added data charts. | May 27, 2016 | ||
| In People section, added data charts. | May 27, 2016 | ||
| Added locator map to the Introduction. | May 04, 2016 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated head of state. | Mar 17, 2016 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated heads of state; updated international authority; updated head of government; revised footnotes 2 and 3. | Feb 17, 2016 | ||
| Changed "Francis Ferdinand" to "Franz Ferdinand." | Nov 12, 2015 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated head of government. | Feb 17, 2015 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated head of state. | Jan 06, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Bosnia-Herzegovina. | Oct 08, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Iloveindia.com - Bosnia and Herzegovina. | Dec 27, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Iloveindia.com - Bosnia and Herzegovina. | Dec 27, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Iloveindia.com - Haiti. | Dec 27, 2012 | ||
| Changed "Bosniac" to "Bosniak." | Apr 24, 2012 | ||
| Changed "Bosniac" to "Bosniak." | Apr 24, 2012 | ||
| Country Profile: Added name of head of state and head of government, along with urban-rural, life expectancy, literacy, and GNI per capita statistics. | Feb 24, 2012 | ||
| Updated for the resolution of the post-2010-election political deadlock. | Jan 10, 2012 | ||
| Added description of the capture of Ratko Mladic. | May 26, 2011 | ||
| Ancient and medieval periods, Ottoman Bosnia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina under Austro-Hungarian rule sections thoroughly revised. | Mar 11, 2011 | ||
| Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Yugoslav kingdom, Bosnia and Herzegovina in communist Yugoslavia, Independence and war, and Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina sections thoroughly revised and updated. | Mar 11, 2011 | ||
| Bibliography thoroughly revised. | Mar 11, 2011 | ||
| Land section thoroughly revised and updated. | Jan 12, 2011 | ||
| Government and society section thoroughly revised and updated. | Jan 12, 2011 | ||
| Introduction thoroughly revised and updated. | Jan 12, 2011 | ||
| National anthem added. | Jan 12, 2011 | ||
| People section thoroughly revised and updated. | Jan 12, 2011 | ||
| Add assembly ID 151372 (asset ID 145660) to this WIP. | Jan 12, 2011 | ||
| Economy section thoroughly revised and updated. | Jan 12, 2011 | ||
| Cultural life section thoroughly revised and updated. | Jan 12, 2011 | ||
| Country Profile: Updated area and population figures. | Mar 12, 2010 | ||
| Clarified that the European Community was ultimately succeeded by the European Union. | Jan 08, 2010 | ||
| History section restructured. | Sep 24, 2009 | ||
| Added a mention of the Bosnian national dish, cevapi. | May 29, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: National Geographic - Travel and Cultures - Bosnia and Herzegovina. | Apr 20, 2009 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Aug 06, 2008 | ||
| Updated with Karadzic's arrest in July 2008. | Jul 23, 2008 | ||
| Updated to include Radovan Karadzic's arrest. | Jul 23, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: InterAction Council - Biography of Tung Chee Hwa. | Jul 09, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Feb 23, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Library of Congress - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Selected Internet Resources. | Aug 08, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Central Intelligence Agency - The World Factbook - Bosnia and Herzegovina. | Jul 26, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 18, 2005 | ||
| Article revised. | Apr 12, 2002 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 | ||
| Article revised. | Jun 01, 1999 |
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