Herzegovina
noun
a historic region in SE Europe: a former Turkish province; a part of Austria-Hungary 1878–1914; now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Herzegovinian
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a word derived from
Herzegovina.
Example Sentences
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With them strode Bosnians in scarlet dress and Herzegovinian mountaineers carrying their rifles upside down in mourning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Having found, meanwhile, by informal conferences with the Herzegovinian leaders, what were the essentials to a lasting settlement, they prepared to embody them in a second Note, the Berlin Memorandum, issued on May 13.
From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by John Holland Rose
He was not like the sailor captains you read of in penny dreadfuls—half coal-heaver, half Herzegovinian bandit.
From Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" by Gordon Stables
The building is still used for its original purpose, and Albanian and Herzegovinian porters lounge about it in strange costumes.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
Thus they protest, in the face of the most damning proofs to the contrary, their innocence of all connivance with the Herzegovinian rebels.
From Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels by George Arbuthnot
