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 Austro-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 under the Serbian monarchy. 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
Cigar, N., Genocide in Bosnia: the Policy of Ethnic Cleansing. 1995
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Friedman, F., The Bosnian Muslims: Denial of a Nation. 1996
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
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Turner, B. (2014). Bosnia and Herzegovina. In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-67278-3_185
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