Bosnia and Herzegovina Explored: The Gem of the Balkans #bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Country in the Balkans
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Bosnia and Herzegovina is a nation in the western part of Europe's Balkan Peninsula. Herzegovina is located in the south and southwest of the nation, while the larger region of Bosnia is located in the north and center.

Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is roughly triangular in shape, shares borders with #croatia on its north, west, and south; #serbia on its east; Montenegro on its southeast; and the Adriatic Sea on its southwest along a small portion of the nation.

The area, which had been ruled by the Ottoman Empire since the fifteenth century, passed into Austria-Hungary's hands in 1878 and went on to play a significant part in the start of World War I. It became a part of the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes in 1918, but it lacked a formal status of its own. It joined the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as a constituent republic following World War II.