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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

The principal topic of conversation, however, was the campaign then about to be opened against the Herzegovinian rebels, and the preparations which he had made for carrying it out.

From Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels by Arbuthnot, George

Vuk Karadjich divides it into three distinct dialects, the Herzegovinian, or that spoken in Bosnia, Montenegro, Dalmatia, and Croatia; the Sirmian, which is used in Sirmia and Slavonian and the Resavian. 

From Servian Popular Poetry by Bowring, John

The rebels were taken between troops from Risano and Orohovac, and others who came from the Herzegovinian mountains.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

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 Stables, Gordon