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Bos·ni·a

(bŏz′nē-ə)

1. A region that constitutes the northern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was settled by Slavs in the 7th century and became an independent state in the 12th century. Bosnia was controlled after 1463 by Turkey and after 1878 by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which formally annexed Bosnia in 1908. After World War II Bosnia and Herzegovina formed a constituent republic of Yugoslavia.

2. See Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Bosnia

(ˈbɒznɪə)

(Placename) a region of central Bosnia-Herzegovina: belonged to Turkey (1463–1878), to Austria-Hungary (1879–1918), then to Yugoslavia (1918–91)

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Bos•ni•a

(ˈbɒz ni ə)

n.

a historic region in S Europe: a former Turkish province; a part of Austria 1879–1918; now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bos′ni•an, adj., n.

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Noun	1.	Bosnia - the northern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosna i Hercegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia - 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
	2.	Bosnia - 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 Bosna i Hercegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Republic 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

Translations

البوسْنَة

Босна

Bosna

Bosnien

Bosnia

Bosna

Bosznia

Bosnia

Bosnia

ボスニア

보스니아

Bosnia

Bosna

Bosnien

ประเทศบอสเนีย

Bosna

Bosnia

波斯尼亚

Bosnia

[ˈbɒznɪə] N → Bosnia f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

Bosnia

[ˈbɒzniə] n → Bosnie f

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Bosnia

n → Bosnien nt

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Bosnia

[ˈbɒznɪə] n → Bosnia

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

Bosnia

→ البوسْنَة Bosna Bosnien Bosnien Βοσνία Bosnia Bosnia Bosnie Bosna Bosnia ボスニア 보스니아 Bosnië Bosnia Bośnia Bósnia Босния Bosnien ประเทศบอสเนีย Bosna Bosnia 波斯尼亚

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References in periodicals archive ?

Seventy thousand Bosnians still live in exile and Bosnia's Deputy Foreign Minister, Husein Zivalj, says that one of his priorities is to get them back to help in the reconstruction of their homeland.

Media make Sarajevo commitment: five years after the Dayton peace agreement, Michael Smith visits the Bosnian capital Sarajevo to attend an international media conference

Nearly 250 Bosnians fled to Scotland two years ago and many were housed in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh.

IT'S WORSE HERE THAN IN BOSNIA

He represented the logical idea that Croats and Moslem Bosnians should reach a mutual defence alliance against the powerful Serbian war machine.

Bosnian Croat speaks out: the moral strength of true faith

When the request came to share my experiences as editor of Bosnia's largest newspaper, Oslobodjenje, I felt I owed the effort to the Sarajevans and Bosnians I had left behind.

Trees for Sarajevo

While it is undoubtedly true that the Bosnians need heavy weapons, if this means withdrawal of U.N.

Bosnia: the problem for peace activists

Bosnian war is said to be neither ethnic, nor religious, because most of the Serbs as well as Bosnians do not contribute to the idea of war.

The pathos of Bosnia

Even outside cosmopolitan Sarajevo, many Bosnians still cling to the ideal of a multicultural society, which is also the official line of the multinational Bosnian leadership.

Shreds remain of multicultural Bosnia: Muslims fill ranks of military, police

More than two million Bosnians and Croatians have been driven from their homes.

Voices from a war zone

But no matter how often UN officials reiterated publicly and privately that UN troops in Bosnia would intervene only "to protect humanitarian activities during wartime," ordinary Bosnians could never quite get it into their heads that the officials really meant it.

Bosnia's fall, our failure

peacekeeping role and, more important, the lives of Bosnians, is to have a much larger peacekeeping force, with Russian troops matching the Western contingent and no corresponding influx of Americans.

Beat the devil

Riyadh, Ramadan 16, 1435, Jul 13, 2014, SPA -- Majlis Al-Shura's delegation has participated with Bosnian delegation on the 19th anniversary of Srebrenica Massacre committed by the Serbian forces in 1995 killing of more than 8,000 of the Muslim Bosnians and displacement of tens of thousands of civilians.

Delegation of Majlis Al-Shura Participates Bosnian People on Annual Anniversary of Srebrenica Massacre

Kuwait, whether at the material or morale level, a thing which made Bosnians

Bosnian Defense Min. hails Kuwait''s role in subsidizing Bosnian army

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