Bosnia-Herzegovina, often referred to simply as Bosnia, is located on the Balkan Peninsula, bordering Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro. The country consists of the regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina and is populated by three constitutional ethnic groups; Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats. You have a coast almost 20 km long along the Adriatic Sea. Capital: Sarajevo Biggest city: Sarajevo State: Federal Republic Language: Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian Religion: Islam, Christian Orthodoxy, Catholicism Surface:…
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Oppositions between Bosnia’s three major ethnic groups – Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats – were behind the civil war of 1992-95 and still threaten to tear apart the country. Data on the size of the population were uncertain for a long time after the war, but a census in 2013 showed that the population amounted to 3.5 million residents – almost a fifth less than at the outbreak of the war…
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