Bosnia (region)

Coordinates: 44°10′N 17°47′E / 44.16°N 17.78°E / 44.16; 17.78
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Bosnia (

Serbo-Croatian: Bosna / Босна, pronounced [bɔ̂sna]) is the northern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, encompassing roughly 81% of the country; the other region, the southern part, is Herzegovina
.

The two regions have formed a geopolitical entity since medieval times, and the name "Bosnia" commonly occurs in historical and geopolitical senses as generally referring to both regions (Bosnia and Herzegovina). The official use of the combined name started only in the late period of Ottoman rule.

Geography

Bosnia lies mainly in the

Pannonian plain, with the rivers Sava and Drina
marking its northern and eastern borders.

The area of Bosnia comprises approximately 39,021 km2,[1] and makes up about 80% of the territory of the present-day state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. There are no true borders between the region of Bosnia and the region of Herzegovina. Unofficially, Herzegovina is south of the mountain Ivan planina. According to another unofficial definition, Herzegovina encompasses the watersheds of the Neretva and Trebišnjica rivers.

History

Main article: Bosnia (early medieval)

The Central part of Bosnia was inhabited by Neolithic farmers that belonged to the Kakanj culture, and later replaced by another neolithic culture called the Butmir culture. The first Indo-Europeans are thought to be members of eneolithic Vučedol culture.[2]

In the

Glasinac culture. Later on the Illyrian tribe of the Daesitiates would become dominant in these area.[3]

The historical records of the region are scarce until its first recorded standalone (domestic) ruler and viceroy of Bosnian state, Ban Borić, was appointed in 1154.

Visoko.[4][5]

Under its first known by name ruler, Stephen, Duke of Bosnia, in the 1080s, the region spanned the upper course of the rivers Bosna, the Vrbas and the Neretva.[citation needed]

Expansion of the Bosnian Kingdom

At the end of the 14th century, under Tvrtko I of Bosnia, the Bosnian kingdom included most of the territory of today's Bosnia and of what would later become known as Herzegovina.

The kingdom lost its independence to the Ottoman Empire in 1463. The region of Bosnia's westernmost city at the time of the conquest was Jajce.[6]

The Ottoman Empire initially expanded into Bosnia and Herzegovina through a territory called the

Berislavići Grabarski
.

Eventually, following the Great Turkish War, in the 18th century the Eyalet came to encompass the area largely matching that of today's Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 1833, the

Bosnian crisis
by formally annexing the province.

Regional identity

Within

Ottoman conquerors, who created the Sanjak of Bosnia in 1463, giving it a regional name, which was not always the case. By the end of the Ottoman rule (1878), regional Bosnianhood became a distinctive mark of local identity, that transcended traditional ethnic and religious distinctions within the general population of Bosnia, and the same notion of regional Bosniandom was preserved throughout the periods of Austro-Hungarian (1878–1918) and Yugoslav (1918–1992) rule.[9]

Subregions

See also

References

  1. ^ "Land area (sq. km) - Bosnia and Herzegovina | Data". data.worldbank.org. Archived from the original on 2021-05-06. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  2. ^ Supporters of Gimbutas' "kurgan model" of Indo-European expansion identify both the preceding Baden culture and Vučedol as Indo-European speakers, though no trace of a written language for either can be expected; see Mallory and Adams, eds., Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, 1997; "A succession of Kurgan 'waves' of expansion was set out, the fourth influencing the Vucedol culture of Yugoslavia. This was significant for the further 'Kurganization' of Europe by the Bell Beaker people." (Colin Renfrew, Archaeology and Language: the puzzle of Indo-European origins, 1990:39)
  3. ISSN 0351-4536. Archived
    from the original on 2015-01-28. Retrieved 2012-09-12. Bosna u obujmu, u kakvom se navodi u djelu DAI kao jedinstvena teritorijalna jedinica, protezala se, kako neki autori smatraju, na području u kojem su prije prebivali Desitijati (M. Hadžijahić). Ti Desitijati, koji su nastavali istočnu i srednju Bosnu počevši od Travnika prema Rogatici pa dalje, imali su središte oko današnje Breze. (Mandić 1942, str. 133.)
  4. ^ Vladimir Ćorović, Teritorijalni razvoj bosanske države u srednjem vijeku, Glas SKA 167, Belgrade, 1935, pp. 10-13
  5. ^ Mrgić-Radojčić 2004, p. 52–53.
  6. ISBN 0-932885-12-8. Archived
    from the original on 2023-02-15. Retrieved 2012-05-06. ... in Bosnia Jajce under Hungarian garrison actually held until 1527
  7. ^ Moravcsik 1967, p. 161.
  8. ^ Ramet 1989, p. 303.
  9. ^ Donia & Fine 1994, p. 71-74.

Sources

External links

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