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Introducing Bosnia & Hercegovina
Once known for tragic reasons, Bosnia and Hercegovina now features in travel plans as people realise what this country has to offer: age-old cultures, stunning mountain landscapes, access to the great outdoors and a sense of adventure. This most easterly point of the West and the most westerly point of the East bears the imprint of two great empires. Five hundred years of domination, first by the Turks and then briefly by the Austria-Hungarians, have inexorably influenced the culture and architecture of this land.
In Sarajevo, minarets, onion-shaped domes and campaniles jostle for the sky in a town where Muslims, Jews, Orthodox Christians and Catholics once lived in harmony. Alluring Baščaršija is a jumble of cobbled laneways spanning centuries of activity. Here workshops for ancient crafts are mixed in with cafés, souvenir shops, and trendy bars. There’s also plenty to lure visitors away from the capital. Mostar’s Old Bridge has been rebuilt and daring young men now plunge from its heights to amuse the tourists. Small Jajce delights with its medieval citadel and waterfall while Međugorje attracts thousands to its Virgin Mary apparition site.
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Latest headlines for Bosnia & Hercegovina
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Bosnia finds hands still tied
2 July 2009 9:30AM
With the fate of Bosnia's High Representative undecided and serious crime still rife, the BBC's Paul Moss examines whether the country is ready to govern itself.
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Bosnia echoes to alarming rhetoric
27 June 2009 2:37PM
Concerns spread that Bosnia's constitutional system, in place since the end of the Bosnian Civil war, may be crumbling.
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June 6, 1944: UK's last day as a superpower
3 June 2009 9:17AM
The scale of the D-Day landings, 65 years ago this week, will never be repeated. But this last hurrah for British military might also have become the model for armed intervention from Bosnia to Afghanistan, says Peter Caddick-Adams.
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