State-legal vertical Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract

Bosnia and Herzegovina has millennial existence. Bosnia was first mentioned in second half of the tenth century 
in the work of the Byzantine emperor and writer Constantin Porfirogenet „De administrando imperio“. The Charter 
of Kulin Ban as of 29 August 1189 is undisputed evidence that Bosnia was an independent State. During the 
domination of Tvrtko I Kotromanic in 1377, Bosnia was transformed into the kingdom and became the most 
powerful country in the Balkans. During 1463 Bosnia was ruled by the Ottoman Empire but retained certain 
features of political identification, first as the Bosnian province since 1580, and afterwards as the Bosnian Vilayet 
since 1965. After Austro-Hungarian having arrived, Bosnia became Corpus separatum. In the Kingdom of SHS, 
borders of Bosnia and Herzegovina complied with the internal regionalization of the country until 1929. During 
the Second World War, at the First Assembly of ZAVNOBiH in Mrkonjic Grad on 25th November 1943, Bosnian 
sovereignty within the Yugoslav Federation was renewed. After the Yugoslav crisis, which culminated in 1991 
and 1992, Yugoslavia is in dissolution and peoples and citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the referendum on 
29 February and 1 March 1992 voted for independence. The protagonists of greater Serbs policy could not 
accept such solution for Bosnia and Herzegovina and that was followed by aggression, which, after three and a 
half years ended by painful compromises contained in the Dayton Peace Agreement.