Recent History of Bosnia

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:49:16 GMT

Language

In the region, but especially in Bosnia, there are three languages, Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, but it's generally described as like British English and American English, perfectly inter-intelligible, with some variation. Croatian and Bosnian are written with the roman alphabet, and Serbian with the cyrillic alphabet.

But obviously, even if you can make yourself understood, use the right name for the language!

World War I

Embarrassingly, I'd remembered that Arch-Duke Ferdinand had been shot somewhere in the Austro-Hungarian empire, but completely forgot where. It was in Sarajevo. He was shot by Gavrilo Princep, who wanted a Serbia independent of the Austro-Hungarian empire. I'm not sure how he's seen now -- I think at the time, he was seen as a terrorist, but since has come to be more of a tragic hero.

The next is a lot of this is things I should know by watching the TV news as a teenager, but I didn't really pick up until I went there. And is incredibly simplistic, but is a sort of description of some of the things that happened, even though it's incredibly vague :(

( Breakup of Yugoslavia and War Crimes )

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Recent History of Bosnia