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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Proper noun

∙ A country on the Balkan Peninsula which has the capital Sarajevo and which, until 1992, was part of Yugoslavia.

BABYLON ENGLISH
Bosnia and Herzegovina n.
independent republic on the Balkan Peninsula (formerly a part of Yugoslavia)

WORDNET 2.0
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Noun
1. 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
(synonym) Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosna i Hercegovina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia
(hypernym) European country, European nation
(hyponym) Sarajevo

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Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( or ; Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: , ; Cyrillic script: ), sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina, abbreviated BiH, and in short often known informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeastern Europe located on the Balkan Peninsula. Sarajevo is the capital and largest city. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west, and south; Serbia to the east; Montenegro to the southeast; and the Adriatic Sea to the south, with a coastline about long surrounding the city of Neum. In the central and eastern interior of the country the geography is mountainous, in the northwest it is moderately hilly, and the northeast is predominantly flatland. The inland is a geographically larger region and has a moderate continental climate, bookended by hot summers and cold and snowy winters. The southern tip of the country has a Mediterranean climate and plain topography.
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