Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Cyrillic Социјалистичка Република Босна и Херцеговина, to 1963, People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyrillic Народна Република Босна и Херцеговина ) was the third largest of the six republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( to 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. Capital of 51,129 km ² Socialist Republic was Sarajevo. Of the total 4.2 million population were 2.1 million Bosniaks ( Slavic Muslims), 1.3 million Serbs and Croats 0.8 million.

History

Already proclaimed the end of 1943 in Mrkonjić degrees, the People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1945 was part of the Federal Peoples Republic of Yugoslavia.

With the disintegration of Yugoslavia from 1991 it was released in October 1991 on the question of the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the cleavage of Parliament into two groups ( Bosnian Serbs against Croats and Bosniaks ).

On 29 February and 1 March 1992, a referendum on independence was held, it voted more than 90 % of the voters for independence, the referendum was, however, boycotted by the Serbs.

On 2 March 1992 Bosnia - Herzegovina declared its independence. As a result of the Bosnian war, which was only resolved with the Dayton peace treaty developed in 1995.

Economy

Belonged to the field of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina until the end of World War II to the most depressed regions of Yugoslavia, so now the industrialization has been accelerated. The coal and metal mining, metallurgy and engineering were the most important industries, agriculture was still until the end of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina still an important industry in dar.