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Bosnian

Bosnian \Bosnian\ adj. of or pertaining to Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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Bosnian

Bosnian may refer to:

  • Anything related to Bosnia (region) or its inhabitants
  • Anything related to the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina or its inhabitants
  • Bosnian language, a South Slavic language spoken mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Bosniaks, an ethnic group mainly inhabiting Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of three constitutive nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Bosnian Croats, an ethnic group and one of three constitutive nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Bosnian Serbs, an ethnic group and one of the three constitutive nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Bosnians, people who live in, or come from, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Bošnjani, the name of inhabitants of Bosnia during the Middle Ages

Usage examples of "bosnian".

The number of Bogomils, members of the dualistic Bosnian church, grew in Croatian coastal cities.

The Bosnian Muslims call themselves Bosniaks and were given fifty-one percent.

Races other than the Turkish, whose immigration in 1914 was more than one-third illiterate, include the Dalmatians, Bosnians, Herzegovinians, Russians, Ruthenians, Italians, Lithuanians, and Roumanians.

From there Zilic ranged outwards, avoiding the dangerous Mujahedin, looking for softer targets among any Bosnian Muslim communities who might lack armed protection.

In 1994, former president Jimmy Carter was invited to travel to Bosnia and Herzegovina by Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic to participate in efforts to help end the war that had been raging there.

Bosnian housekeeper having employed a product that contained xylene and chlorinated hydrocarbons to clean some crayon-marks off a bleached-oak end table.

Serb, no doubt promised passports for his entire family if he spied for us during the Bosnian war.

In addition, the deep-seated ethnic resentments--hardened by the recent war--left Bosnians suspicious of one another and unwilling to cooperate fully.

Chances were these were Bosnian Serbs, possibly members of the Serb Volunteers, possibly Chetniks or Beli Orlori or members of one of the other pro-Serb, anti-Muslim militias.

Since the accident, he had become known as Wombat the Marauder to his victims, mostly inconsiderate dorks who had broken Caf rules only to find this man gripping them in an old Bosnian or Tunisian martial arts hold that shorted out the major meridians of their nervous system, and shouting at them in a percussive accent that crackled like fat ground beef on a red-hot steam griddle.

She said that even though paying five cents more for a bag of gingko biloba rings might not seem like much to some of us, victims of real racism, like the Armenians and the Rwandans and the Ugandans and the Bosnians, would recognize that that five cents was only the first step on the road to genocide.

Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb with a degree in psychiatry who suggests that the elimination of Moslems holds the key to his Orthodox Christian people’s happiness.

When, as the United Nations secretary-general, Boutros-Ghali resisted military intervention on behalf of the Bosnian Moslems, Egyptians did not judge his beliefs about the Balkans on their merits.

In 1991, the Bosnians were governed by a coalition of national unity headed by the leading Muslim politician, Alija Izetbegovic, and including the militant Serbian nationalist leader Radovan Karadzic, a Sarajevo psychiatrist.

SBO/1 recommended that her diplomatic cover not be tainted through direct contact with me, as he rightly suspected that I was well-blown to the Bosnian secret police, so I was not required to show her around her new patch.