How was Bosnia involved in the RR and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict?

samba asked:

I am doing a project on Bosnia and its involvement in different events in history. Im aware that Bosnia wasnt a country during the Russian Revolution or the Iraeli/Palestinian conflict, but how was the land that is present day Bosnia involved? I think it belonged to the Austro Hungarian Empire for the RR, not sure about the other. Also if its wasnt involved, what was it doing at that time? Any help appreciated, its all kinda sketchy for me.

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One Response to “How was Bosnia involved in the RR and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict?”

Joseph Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 12:20 pm
I doubt if Bosnia had or has anything to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Bosnians are Muslims but that does not mean anything, unless maybe a few of them volunteered to joing the Palestinian fight, but I have found no record of that.

At the Congress of Berlin after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, Bosnia and Herzegovina was assigned to Austro-Hungarian occupation, though it was still nominally Turkish. It was annexed to Austria-Hungary in October 1908. A new constitution divided the electorate into three electoral colleges and assigned in each a fixed proportion of seats to the Orthodox, Roman Catholics, and Muslims. This did little to satisfy growing Serb nationalism, and on June 28, 1914, the Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated at Sarajevo by a Bosnian Serb student, Gavrilo
Princip. This event precipitated World War I. Bosnia and Herzegovina was annexed to Serbia on Oct. 26, 1918, as part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. During World War II Bosnian Serbs suffered greatly under the genocidal policies of the Croatian puppet state. In 1946 the twin territory became one of the republics of communist Yugoslavia.

With the collapse of communism in 1989-90, Bosnia and Herzegovina was engulfed by a wave of nationalism that swept Yugoslavia. After Croatia quit the federation in 1991, Bosnian Croats and Bosniacs approved referenda calling for an independent, multinational republic. The Bosnian Serbs, however, refused to secede from Yugoslavia, which by now was dominated by Serbia, and from 1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina was wracked by a war in which entire populations were “cleansed” from areas taken over by each nationality. Serbs seized much of the north and east, Croats took the west, and Bosniacs held onto cities in the centre and northwest. The war ended in December 1995 with a peace accord that created a loosely federalized Bosnia and Herzegovina divided roughly evenly between a Bosniac-Croat federation and a Serb republic.

Taken from Britanica.com
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