Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Republika Bosna i Hercegovina Република Босна и Херцеговина | |||||||||||
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1992–1995 | |||||||||||
Anthem: Једна си једина Jedna si jedina "You are the one and only" | |||||||||||
Capital | Sarajevo | ||||||||||
Official languages | Serbo-Croatian[1] | ||||||||||
Religion | Islam Christianity | ||||||||||
Demonym(s) | Bosnian | ||||||||||
Government | Unitary dominant-party parliamentary republic | ||||||||||
Chairman of the Presidency | |||||||||||
• 1992–1996 | Alija Izetbegović | ||||||||||
Prime Minister | |||||||||||
• 1992 | Jure Pelivan | ||||||||||
• 1992–1993 | Mile Akmadžić | ||||||||||
• 1993–1996 | Haris Silajdžić | ||||||||||
• 1996–1997 | Hasan Muratović | ||||||||||
Legislature | National Assembly | ||||||||||
Historical era | Breakup of Yugoslavia | ||||||||||
1 March 1992 | |||||||||||
3 March 1992 | |||||||||||
6 April 1992 | |||||||||||
18 October 1992 | |||||||||||
18 March 1994 | |||||||||||
14 December 1995 | |||||||||||
Currency | BH Dinar | ||||||||||
Calling code | +387 | ||||||||||
ISO 3166 code | BA | ||||||||||
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The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Serbo-Croatian: Republika Bosna i Hercegovina / Република Босна и Херцеговина) was a state in Southeastern Europe, existing from 1992 to 1995. It is the direct legal predecessor to the modern-day state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[2]
Bosnia and Herzegovina seceded from the disintegrating Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 3 March 1992. The Bosnian War broke out soon after its Declaration of Independence and lasted for 3 years. Leaders from two of the three main ethnicities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, namely the Serbs and the Croats, separately established the entities of the Republika Srpska and the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, respectively, which were unrecognized by the Bosnian state and international governments.[3] Informally, these events were considered as evidence that the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina represented primarily its Bosniak (mainly Muslim) population, though formally, the presidency and government of the republic was still composed of Serbs and Croats along with Bosniaks.[4][5][6]
Under the Washington Agreement of 1994, however, Bosniaks were joined by Herzeg-Bosnia, in support for the Republic by the formation of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a sub-state joint entity. In 1995, the Dayton Peace Accords joined the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the Serb entity, Republika Srpska, from that point onward recognized formally as a political sub-state entity without a right of secession, into the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[3][5][7]
The prefix Republic was removed following the co-signing of the Annex 4 of the Dayton Agreement, containing the constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 14 December 1995.
U Republici Bosni i Hercegovini u službenoj upotrebi je srpskohrvatski odnosno hrvatskosrpski jezik ijekavskog izgovora.