Balkans - Nation-Building, Ethnic Conflict, Yugoslavia: While the 18th century in the Balkans was dominated by the steady decline of Ottoman power, the outstanding feature of the 19th century was the creation of nation-states on what had been Ottoman ter
out of monastic houses. In Herzegovina a third church, the Serbian Orthodox, had competed.Christianitywas thus structurally weaker in Bosnia than in almost any other part of theBalkans. The motives thatinclinedBosnians to adopt Islam were partly economic: the prosperous cities ofSarajevoandMostar...
When the constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes was finally settled in June 1921, Bosnia and Herzegovina retained no formal status of its own. However, its outline was preserved on the map, in the form of six oblasti (provinces) corresponding to the sanjaks (excluding ...