Bosna i Hercegovina
n 1: a mountainous republic of south-central Europe; formerly
part of the Ottoman Empire and then a part of Yugoslavia;
voted for independence in 1992 but the mostly Serbian army
of Yugoslavia refused to accept the vote and began ethnic
cleansing in order to rid Bosnia of its Croats and Muslims
[syn: {Bosnia and Herzegovina}, {Republic of Bosnia and
Herzegovina}, {Bosna i Hercegovina}, {Bosnia-Herzegovina},
{Bosnia}]