1914 - A Bosnian Serb student, Gavrilo Princip, assassinates the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. This precipitates World War I. 1918 - Austria-Hungary collapses at the end of the war.

Demonstrators in Bosnia-Hercegovina have set fire to government buildings, in the worst unrest since the end of the 1992-95 war. Dozens of people have been injured in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo ...

SARAJEVO - Sarajevo is no stranger to conflict, but while the wounds of the Bosnian war's siege are still raw, the city is seeking to cash in on its historical claim as the place where World War I was ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Hercegovina — Pope Francis landed in Muslim-majority Sarajevo early Saturday on a trip that he called “a sign of peace” — some 20 years after the end of a deadly civil ...

The 14th century Sarajevo Haggadah has survived two world wars and the siege in the early 1990s Some of the most important museums and cultural institutions in Bosnia-Hercegovina face imminent ...

In this episode, David explores Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, highlighting its historical, cultural, ...

BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA UPDATE: NON-COMPLIANCE WITH THE DAYTON ACCORDS Ongoing Ethnically-Motivated Expulsions and Harassment in Bosnia Vol. 8. No. 12 (D), August 1996 ... SARAJEVO SUBURBS ...

The war in Bosnia-Hercegovina was part of a series of conflicts which tore apart the socialist federation of Yugoslavia, created by Josip Broz Tito at the end of WWII.

BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA, Sarajevo : A picture shows the facade of Sarajevo City Hall and National Library building lit with 3D mapping animations during a grand re-opening ceremony, on May 9, 2014.

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Bosnia-Hercegovina is made up of two separate entities: a Bosniak-Croat Federation of Bosnia and Hercegovina, and the Bosnian Serb Republic, or Republika Srpska, each with its own president ...

Journalist Sead Numanovic says "poverty and injustice" are fuelling the protests Demonstrators in Bosnia-Hercegovina have set fire to government buildings, in the worst unrest since the end of the ...