Bosna in Hercegovina
Bosna in Hercegovina
a mountainous republic of south-central Europe; formerly part of the Ottoman Empire and then a part of Yugoslavia; voted for independence in 1992 but the mostly Serbian army of Yugoslavia refused to accept the vote and began ethnic cleansing in order to rid Bosnia of its Croats and Muslims [gorska republika v jugovzhodni Evropi; nekoč del Otomanskega imperija in nato del Jugoslavije; leta 1992 je glasovala za neodvisnost, vendar je večinoma srbska vojska Jugoslavije zavrnila glasovanje in začela etnično čiščenje, da se Bosne znebijo Hrvatov in muslimanov]