The Medieval Bosnian state is one of the oldest in Europe

The Medieval Bosnian state was autonomous until it was conquered by the Turkish Ottoman Empire back in 1463, an invasion lead by a major historical figure, Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror.
The population was mainly affiliated with the Bogumil religion; they did not recognise rule by the Catholic Pope, nor did they recognise the Orthodox Church.
Before ultimately [...]

Books, films, articles, reports related to the Balkan wars

Branimir Anzulovic. Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to Genocide. New York and London: New York University Press, 1999. xiv + 233 pp
A valuable dissection of the mythical underpinnings of Serbia ultra-nationalism. These concepts and images have been skillfully manipulated by the Milosevic regime during the last decade to persue wars [...]

Integrative Problems: Interwar Yugoslavia and the Major National Ideologies

Integrative Problems: Interwar Yugoslavia and the Major National Ideologies
One prevalent explanation for the eventual demise of the Yugoslav state is that it never succeeded in constituting itself as a political community, as a nation-state whose identity conceptually and structurally transcended the various nations that it comprised. While the special function and purpose of the Yugoslav [...]

Serbian Nationalism and the Origins of the Yugoslav Crisis

The Role of Serbian Ressentiment
Thus far, this study has attempted to explain the fragility of the Yugoslav state in terms of both the dominant national ideologies that shook its foundations from its very creation and the institutional frameworks within which national conflicts evolved.
Tito’s principal strategy in maintaining national peace sought to curb the power of [...]

Bosnian charters-explanation

Stephen Kotromanić (died 1353), sometimes referred to as Stephen II, was a Ban (ruler) of Bosnia.
Stephen’s father, Kotroman, was the ruler of a territory in northern Bosnia. Stephen succeeded his father as ruler of the territory.
Stephen entered into a power struggle with the Šubić family, who appeared to have ruled the Banate of Bosnia for [...]

Short introduction to Balkan history and Balkan wars

The Balkans as Theater of Imperial Rivalry
Among the earliest inhabitants of the Balkans were the Illyrians, ancestors of the Albanians, arriving before the Seventh Century BC. They eventually came under the domination of the Roman Empire. By the Fourth Century CE, the declining Empire was divided in two for reasons of administrative expediency. The [...]