Tourisam Destination

There are many fascinating destinations throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina for every type of tourist. In BiH, one gets the best of both worlds. Here, the most interesting and attractive sites are a wonderful mix of this tiny country's cultural and natural heritage. It is almost impossible to separate them, for it is from this pristine nature that its cultures and traditions evolved.  Sarajevo's Bascarsija (Old Town) The Old Town 'Bascarsija' may be hard to pronounce...

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Cities in Bosnia

    * Banja Luka     * Banovići     * Bihać     * Berkovići     * Bijeljina     * Kozarska Dubica     * Brod     * Bosanska Gradiška     * Bosanska Krupa     * Bosanski Petrovac     * Brčko     * Bugojno     * Čajniče     * Cazin    ...

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Bosnian languange

Bosnian (Bosanski (Bosanski, Cyrilic: босански) is a name commonly used for Serbo-Croatian as spoken by Bosnian as a form of the Shtokavian dialekt, it is one of three Serbo-Croatian standards used officially in Bosnia. The same subdialect of Shtokavian is also the basis of standard Croatian and Serbian,  so all are mutually intelligible. Up until the dissolution of former SFRJ, they were treated as a unitary Serbo-Croatian languange and that...

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Ethnic Gropus

More than 95% of population of Bosnia and Herzegovina belongs to one of its three constitutive ethnic groups: Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats . The term constitutive refers to the fact that these three ethnic groups are explicitly mentioned in the constitution, and that none of them can be considered a minority or immigrant. While each have their own standard language variant and a name for it, they speak mutually intelligible languages. On a dialectal level, Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks speak a variety of Štokavian dialects: Serbs, Bosniaks and Croats...

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History of Bosnia and Herzegovina

There are traces of human settlements in Bosnia dating from the Stone Age. The earliest inhabitants of Bosnia and Herzegovina of whom there is any certainty are the Illyrians, an exceedingly rapacious pastoral people who were divided into various tribes. The best known of these are: a small tribe called the Liburnians living in the northwest, who were notorious pirates; the Ardiaeans living south of the Liburnians, and the Antiariats, who were neighbours of the Ardiaeans living still farther to the south. The migrations of the Celts in the third...

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About Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina is the heart shaped land that lies in the heart of southeast Europe. It is here that eastern and western civilizations met, sometimes clashed, but more often enriched and reinforced each other throughout its long and fascinating history. Bosnia and Herzegovina is a long name for a country that measures just over 50,000 km2. Bosnia covers the north and centre of the country with its name probably derived from 'bosana', an...

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