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BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Bosna i Hercegovina; Bosnia; Bosnia-Herzegovina; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Bosnia and Herzegovina"):
Bosnia (the northern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Sarajevo (capital and largest city of Bosnia; scene of the assassination of Francis Ferdinand in 1914 which precipitated World War I)
