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Name: bosnia

Type: Cluster

Start: 1181 AD

End: 2022 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country since the Middle Ages.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Banate of Bosnia
  • Kingdom of Bosnia
  • Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Establishment


  • January 1181: After the reign of Ban Kulin, rulers of Bosnia enjoyed virtual independence from Hungary.
  • Chronology


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    1. Crusades


    The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the Medieval period. The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291.

    1.1.Bosnian Crusade

    Was a Hungarian war of conquest against the Banate of Bosnia sanctioned as a crusade.

  • January 1236: In 1236, the Banate of Bosnia was targeted in a Hungarian war of conquest sanctioned as a crusade. This conflict involved King Bela IV of Hungary and Ban Matej Ninoslav of Bosnia, with the goal of expanding Hungarian territory and influence in the region.
  • February 1236: Ban Matej Ninoslav of Bosnia was able to retake control of Bosnia.

  • 2. Bosnian acquisition of Zahumlje


    King Bela IV of Hungary attacked the Serb Kingdom of Rascia of King Stefan Uroš I and conquered Zahumlje in 1254 which it gave to Prijezda's Bosnia.

  • January 1255: King Bela IV of Hungary attacked the Serb Kingdom of Rascia of King Stefan Uroš I and conquered Zahumlje in 1254 which it gave to Prijezda's Bosnia.

  • 3. War of Hum


    Was a war between the Banate of Bosnia under Stephen II Kotromanić and the Kingdom of Serbia under Stefan Dečanski Nemanjić.

  • January 1327: In 1326, Ban Stephen II attacked Serbia in a military alliance with the Republic of Ragusa and conquered Zahumlje.

  • 4. Dissolution of Serbia


    Dissolution of Serbia after the Battle of Maritsa between the Ottoman Empire and Serbia.

  • September 1371: After the Battle of Maritsa, Serbia fragmented into several successor states.
  • September 1371: After the dissolution of the Serbian Empire, the Vojinović family established a personal domain in 1371.
  • September 1371: The Banate of Bosnia was de facto indipendent after the Battle of Maritsa.

  • 5. Wars of Mehmed II


    Wars during the rule of Mehmed II in the Ottoman Sultanate.

  • June 1463: Mehmed led a campaign against the Kingdom of Bosnia and annexed it to the Ottoman Empire.

  • 6. Yugoslav Wars


    Were a series of independence wars and insurgencies that resulted in the breakup of Yugoslavia.

    6.1.Bosnian War

    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.

  • March 1992: Bosnia and Herzegovina seceded from the disintegrating Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 3 March 1992.
  • 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.
  • July 1993: Battle of Bugojno.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • November 1994: Battle of Kupres.
  • November 1994: Operation Spider takes place in Western Bosnia.
  • December 1994: Operation Winter '94.
  • April 1995: Operation Leap 1.
  • June 1995: Battle of Orašje.
  • June 1995: Operation Leap 2.
  • July 1995: Operation Summer '95 was a military offensive conducted by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • August 1995: Operation Storm offensive launched by Croatian forces in August 1995.
  • 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.

  • 6.1.1.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.

  • 6.1.2.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.

  • 7. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1197: Bulgarian conquests around 1196.

  • January 1201: During the reign of Hrvatinić family, since the beginning of 13th century, the territory of Donji Kraji included areas and parishes around Sana river, Glaž, to Grmeč mountain on the west and to the middle course of the Vrbas river on the east.

  • January 1256: The eventual peace between Hungary and the Serbs returned Zachlumia Serbia

  • January 1283: The territory of Syrmia became independent from the Kingdom of Hungary after the collapse of central power.

  • January 1324: During the civil war after Milutin's death, Serbia lost Zachlumia and Vidin. Zachlumia felt under Bosnian control.

  • January 1327: Ban Stephen II gained territories, expending his realm to the coast by annexing space between mouths of the Cetina and the Neretva rivers, and all in between Bosnia main proper and the coast, namely vast expanses of karst poljes of Livanjsko, Duvanjsko and Glamočko, which will from that point on be known as Završje, until territorial reconfiguration under Ottomans. .

  • January 1327: By 1326 Ban Stephen II attacked Serbia in a military alliance with the Republic of Ragusa and conquered Zahumlje, gaining more of Adriatic Sea coast.

  • January 1327: The Bosnians occupied Makarska (Macarsca).

  • January 1327: Ban also annexed towns and forts of Imotski, Livno, Duvno, Glamoč, Grahovo.

  • November 1350: In October the Serbian emperor invaded Hum, with an army said to be of 80,000 men, and successfully occupied part of the disputed territory.

  • January 1351: In 1350, during the reign of Serbian Emperor Stefan Dušan, the Serbs led a military campaign that resulted in the ravaging of the countryside. One of their armies reached the territories of Duvno and Cetina, causing destruction and chaos in the region.

  • January 1351: Imotski and Novi conquered by Serbian Empire.

  • December 1373: Prince Lazar and the king of Hungary formed a coalition agianst the Vojonovic domain and then partitioned its territory.

  • December 1373: Prince Lazar and the king of Hungary formed a coalition agianst the Vojonovic domain and then divided the territory.

  • October 1377: Tvrtko's coronation as king of Bosnia and Serbia was held in the fall of 1377 (probably 26 October, the feast day of Saint Demetrius), but there is no consensus as to where it took place.

  • June 1385: Recognition of Bosnian Ban Tvrtko's possession of Kotor in the spring of 1385.

  • August 1387: Tvrtko took control of the Klis Fortress in July 1387.

  • December 1387: Ostrovica Fortress submitted to Bosnian forces in November, followed by Trogir.

  • June 1389: The Dalmatian cities are conquered by Tvrtko I of Bosnia.

  • June 1390: In May 1390, the cities and the Dalmatian islands finally surrendered to Tvrtko.

  • January 1410: The fortress of Novigrad was part of Republic of Venice from 1409.

  • January 1413: As a reward for Stefan Lazarević's help and loyalty, the Bosnian king transferred Srebrenica with its surroundings to the Serbian Despotate in 1411 or 1412.

  • January 1421: During the 20-year Hungarian civil war between King Sigismund and the Capetian House of Anjou of the Kingdom of Naples, the losing contender, Ladislaus of Naples, sold his disputed rights on Dalmatia to the Venetian Republic for 100,000 ducats. Acting on the pretext, the Republic took over Split by the year 1420.

  • January 1421: In 1420, the city of Kotor, a major trading port in the Adriatic Sea, recognized Venetian rule.

  • January 1421: Venice acquired control of Dalmatia in 1420 (with the exception of the Republic of Ragusa) which remained under Venetian rule for a period of 377 years.

  • January 1421: The city of Cattaro, shortly before the fall of Moravian Serbia, fearing being annexed to the Ottoman Empire, submitted to the Republic of Venice.

  • June 1433: Despot Đurađ annexed parts of Usora, together with the trade outpost Zvonik and fortress Teočak.

  • January 1436: Partition of the kingdom of Bosnia after the death of Tvrtko I.

  • Selected Sources


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