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Name: Bosnian War

Type: Event

Start: 1992 AD

End: 1995 AD

Parent: Yugoslav Wars

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Was a civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, that had recently gained its independence from Yugoslavia. It involved several actors, but mainly pitted the government of Bosnia-Herzegovina against the de facto independent regions of Herzeg-Bosnia and Republika Srpska.

Chronology


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  • November 1994: Battle of Kupres.
  • March 1992: Bosnia and Herzegovina seceded from the disintegrating Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 3 March 1992.
  • July 1993: Battle of Bugojno.
  • March 1994: A ceasefire agreement between the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, was signed on 18 March 1994 by Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdžić, Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granić and President of Herzeg-Bosnia Krešimir Zubak. Under the agreement, the combined territory held by the Croat and Bosnian government forces was divided into ten autonomous cantons, establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • August 1994: Operation Tiger (1994).
  • April 1995: Operation Leap 1.
  • June 1995: Battle of Orašje.
  • September 1995: Battle for Vozuća.
  • September 1995: Operation Mistral 2' was a military offensive carried out by the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1995 in the towns of Jajce, Drvar, and Šipovo.
  • October 1995: Operation Southern Move.
  • October 1995: Operation Sana. Bosnian forces occupy Bosanska Krupa, Bosanski Petrovac, Ključ, Kulen Vakuf, Bosanska Otoka and Sanski Most.
  • August 1995: Operation Storm offensive launched by Croatian forces in August 1995.
  • June 1995: Operation Leap 2.
  • September 1993: A small unrecognised state that existed in the northwest of Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1993 and 1995. It consisted of the town of Velika Kladuša (its capital) and a few nearby villages. It was proclaimed as a result of secessionist politics by former Bosnian president Fikret Abdić against the central government of Alija Izetbegovic during the Bosnian War.
  • November 1994: Operation Spider takes place in Western Bosnia.
  • December 1994: Operation Winter '94.
  • July 1995: Operation Summer '95 was a military offensive conducted by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • March 1992: When Bosnia Herzegovina was declared it didn't control all of ist official territory.
  • April 1992: When Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia after the 1992 Bosnian independence referendum, the Bosnian Serbs (whose strategic goal was to create a new Bosnian Serb state of Republika Srpska (RS) that would include Bosniak-majority areas) encircled Sarajevo with a siege force of 13,000 stationed in the surrounding hills.

  • 1. Operation Jackal


    Was a military offensive by Bosnia-Herzegovina government forces against the Republika Srpska during the Croatian War of Independence.

  • June 1992: JNA activity ended.
  • June 1992: Territorial advances of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia during Operation Corridor.

  • 2. Operation Corridor


    Was the largest operation conducted during the Bosnian War by the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) against the forces of the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) and the Croatian Army (HV) in the Bosanska Posavina region of northern Bosnia and Herzegovina between 24 June and 6 October 1992.

  • June 1992: Territorial advances of the Republika Srpska during Operation Corridor.
  • July 1992: Territorial advances of the Republika Srpska during Operation Corridor.

  • 3. Dayton Agreement


    Was a peace agreement that ended the Bosnian War. The warring parties agreed to peace and to a single sovereign state known as Bosnia and Herzegovina composed of two parts, the largely Serb-populated Republika Srpska and the Croat-Bosniak Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

  • December 1995: Peace Treaty: reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, United States, on 1 November 1995, and formally signed in Paris, on 14 December 1995. These accords put an end to the ​3 1⁄2-year-long Bosnian War, one of the Yugoslav Wars. The warring parties agreed to peace and to a single sovereign state known as Bosnia and Herzegovina composed of two parts, the largely Serb-populated Republika Srpska and the Croat-Bosniak Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

  • Selected Sources


  • Map - Balkan battlegrounds. Library of Congress. Retrieved on 7 April 2024 on https://www.loc.gov/item/2010588135
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