Herzegovina

[her-tsuh-goh-vee-nuh]

noun

1. a historic region in SE Europe: a former Turkish province; a part of Austria-Hungary 1878–1914; now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Herzegovina

/ ˌhɜːtsəɡəʊˈviːnə /

noun

1. a region in Bosnia-Herzegovina: originally under Austro-Hungarian rule; became part of the province of Bosnia-Herzegovina (1878), which was a constituent republic of Yugoslavia (1946–92)

Other Word Forms

• Herzegovinian adjective

Example Sentences

Wharton's only England cap came under Southgate against Bosnia & Herzegovina in June 2024, when he made a 28-minute appearance as a substitute.

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The former Yugoslavia had been a fragile, polyglot federation cobbled together after World War I and reconstituted under communist rule following World War II. For decades, it maintained a delicate balance among its six republics — Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia — and its patchwork of ethnic and religious groups.

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The massacre was one of the most horrific chapters in a war that began after Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia.

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In 1992, after the fall of the Soviet Union the previous year, Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia and established a multi-ethnic government led by its first president, Alija Izetbegović, a Muslim intellectual and longtime advocate for a sovereign Bosnia.

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The play reflects the grim reality of the events not just of July 1995 – but the ensuing decades of unresolved grief and divisions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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