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capital | Sarajevo |
Government | Federal Republic (in development) |
Currency | marka (BAM) |
Area | 51,129 km2 |
Population | 4,498,976 (est. July 2006) |
Language | Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian |
Religion | Muslims 52%, Orthodox 31%, Roman Catholics 15%, Protestants 3% |
Electricity | 220V/50Hz |
phone code | 387 |
Internet TLD | .ba |
Time zone | UTC 1 |
THE Bosnia Herzegovina[1] is a country in Balkans, in the southeast of Europe, which borders the Croatia, a Serbia and Montenegro. In the 1990s, after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the country of which it was a part, it was the scene of a bloody civil war. Today, the monuments are being rebuilt and the peace accords guarantee a peaceful climate for travel, which makes tourism in the country grow every day.
Regions
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Bosanska Krajina northwest of the country |
Central Bosnia |
Herzegovina the south of the country |
North East |
Posavina along the river Sava |
Sarajevo Region the capital and its surroundings |
Cities
Other destinations
Understand
Known as Little Yugoslavia for synthesizing the diversity of the former Balkan nation, the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina borders Croatia (to the north and west), Serbia (east) and Montenegro (to the southeast), as well as having a tiny part of its territory bathed by the Adriatic Sea.
Bosnia-Herzegovina, together with Macedonia, is one of the economically poorest republics in the former Yugoslavia. The planned economy, in addition to the conflicts that took place in the country for years, destroying infrastructure, causing deaths and emigration flows, hampered national economic development. Another aggravating factor was the disruption of trade relations imposed by Serbia and Croatia.
History
From 1992 to 1995, the country was the scene of the most violent conflicts of fragmentation of the Yugoslav territory. The clashes caused nearly 200,000 deaths and approximately 2.5 million refugees.
The Bosnian War began when Bosnia-Herzegovina declared its independence in 1992. The Serbs, opposed to the separation process, carried out ethnic persecution, expelling rival groups from areas under their occupation, in addition to carrying out massacres. Only in August 1995, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) promoted intervention in the conflict by bombing Serbian positions. That same year, the bloodiest conflict on European soil since World War II came to an end. The Dayton Agreement, signed in December, established the territorial limits of Bosnia-Herzegovina on its current borders. The state was divided into two entities: the Serbian Republic (49% of the territory) and the Bosnian Muslim-Croatian Federation (51%).
The nation proclaimed its independence on September 1, 1992.
To arrive
Portuguese and Brazilians do not need a visa to visit the country (maximum stay 90 days)
- Embajada de Bosnia and Herzegovina - Calle 14 de Julio, 1656. Tel: 54 11 4554-9386 (e-mail: [email protected]) [2]
By airplane
Of boat
By car
By bus/bus
By train/train
Circular
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By airplane
Of boat
By car
By bus/bus
By train/train
Speak
The Bosnian language (called bosanski) is a Slavic language, and uses the Latin alphabet. It is a variant of the Serbo-Croatian language, also spoken in Bosnia (especially in Republika Srpska, where the Cyrillic alphabet is used) and in neighboring countries.
With the
drink and go out
sleep
Learn
Work
Safety
Health
respect
Stay in touch
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