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Independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Serbia · Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1991–1993Date range
1Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1991

Slobodan Milosevic1 March 1991

Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

Bosnias Muslims and Croats vote for independence in referendum boycotted by Serbs

Slobodan Milosevic6 April 1991

Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

War breaks out between the Bosnian Government and local Serbs, who start 1992-1995 siege of capital Sarajevo

1993

Slobodan Milosevic1993

Warfare / Balkan Wars, 3rd

Bosnian peace efforts fail, war breaks out between Muslims and Croats, previously allied against Serbs

Names involved

Slobodan Milosevic

Provenance

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