Bosnia
[boz-nee-uh]
- a historic region in SE Europe: a former Turkish province; a part of Austria-Hungary (1879–1918) now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Contemporary Examples
There were stories of distant strife, in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Northern Ireland, and those stories had the whiff of a different era.
These formations streamed from Rwanda with the same hopeless shuffle as they did from Bosnia and now as they do from Syria.
In that incident, a group of DynCorp employees working as peacekeepers in Bosnia were accused of sex trafficking by a colleague.
In Darfur, the Fur, Zaghawa, and Massaleit peoples have been targeted by the Sudan government, as were Muslims in Bosnia.
The court cleared Serbia in 2007 of committing genocide after the fall of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia.
Historical Examples
In Bosnia also and in southern Hungary the Serbs were in a humiliating position.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1Henry Baerlein
An excellent province in which Yugoslavia's solidity can be studied is Bosnia.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2Henry Baerlein
In Bosnia, for some time after the Austrian collapse, it was inconvenient to travel.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2Henry Baerlein
Coming from India to France, why should he have to go to Bosnia?
Nobody's GirlHector Malot
And then, even if he was in Bosnia or Turkey, that was not to say that he was on his way to Maraucourt.
Nobody's GirlHector Malot
Bosnia
- 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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Word Origin and History for bosnia
Bosnia
named for the River Bosna, which is perhaps from an Indo-European root *bhog- "current." As a name or adjective for someone there, Bosnian (1788) is older in English than Bosniac (1836, from Russian Bosnyak).
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