Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
| Socijalistička Republika Bosna i Hercegovina | |||||
| Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina | |||||
| 1943-1992 | |||||
|
|||||
| Official language | Serbo-Croatian | ||||
| Capital | Sarajevo | ||||
| Form of government | Socialist republic | ||||
| surface | 51,129 km² | ||||
| population | 4,377,033 (1991) | ||||
| Population density | 85 inhabitants per km² | ||||
| currency | Yugoslav dinar | ||||
| founding | 1943 | ||||
| Time zone | UTC +1 | ||||
| License Plate | YU | ||||
 |
|||||
.svg)
The Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Serbo-Croatian Socijalistička Republika Bosna i Hercegovina / Социјалистичка Република Босна и Херцеговина until 1963 People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina , Serbo-Croatian Narodna Republika Bosna i Hercegovina / Народна Република Босна и Херцеговина ) was the third largest of the six republics of the Socialist Federal Republic Yugoslavia (until 1963 Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia).
The SR Bosnia and Herzegovina existed until the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina as the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992. The capital of the 51,129 km² socialist republic was Sarajevo . Of the total of 4.2 million inhabitants at the last census in 1991, 2.1 million were Muslims ( Bosniaks ), 1.3 million Serbs and 800,000 Croatians .
history
Already proclaimed in Mrkonjić Grad at the end of 1943 , the People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina had been part of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia since 1945. With the constitutional amendment in 1963, the sub-republics were renamed "socialist republics".
With the disintegration of Yugoslavia from 1991 onwards , in October 1991 the question of the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina split the parliament into two groups (Bosnian Serbs versus Croats and Bosniaks).
A referendum on independence took place on February 29 and March 1, 1992, with more than 90% of voters voting for independence, although the referendum was boycotted by the Serbs.
On March 2, 1992, Bosnia and Herzegovina declared its independence. As a result, the almost four-year war in Bosnia broke out, which was only resolved with the 1995 Dayton Peace Treaty .
economy
The territory of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina was considered to be one of the economically weakest regions of Yugoslavia until the end of the Second World War , so industrialization was now accelerated. Coal and ore mining, metallurgy and mechanical engineering were the most important industries, but agriculture was still an important branch of the economy until the end of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Federal Foreign Office - Bosnia and Herzegovina. In: Auswaertiges-amt.de. Retrieved July 26, 2011 .
