The Ottoman Empire initially expanded into Bosnia and Herzegovina through a territory called

the Bosansko Krajište. It was transformed into the Sanjak of Bosnia and the Sanjak of
Herzegovina after 1462/1463. The first Ottoman administration called Eyalet of Bosnia was
finally formed in 1527, after long armed resistance to the north and to the west by Counts Franjo
and Ivaniš Berislavić of the noble house of Berislavići Grabarski.

Eventually, following the Great Turkish War, in the 18th century the Eyalet came to encompass
the area largely matching that of today's Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 1833, the Eyalet of Herzegovina was temporarily split off under Ali-paša Rizvanbegović. The
area acquired the name of "Bosnia and Herzegovina" in 1853 as a result of a twist in political
events following his death. After the 1864 administrative reform, the province was named
Vilayet of Bosnia. Austria-Hungary occupied the whole country in 1878. It remained formally
part of the Ottoman Empire under the title of Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina until
1908, when Austria-Hungary provoked the Bosnian crisis formally annexing it.

Regional identity
Within Bosnia and Herzegovina, the region of Bosnia has a traditional regional identity,
distinctive from the regional identity of the neighboring Herzegovina. Bosnian regional identity
was attested as early as the 10th century, when Constantin VII Porphyrogenetos referred to
Bosnia as a particular region.[6] Development of Bosnia's regional identity continued throughout
the Middle Ages,[7] and it was also acknowledged in the 15th century by the Ottoman conquerors,
who created the Sanjak of Bosnia in 1463, giving it a regional name, which was not always the
case. By the end of the Ottoman rule (1878), regional Bosnianhood became a distinctive mark of
local identity, that transcended traditional ethnic and religious distinctions within the general
population of Bosnia, and the same notion of regional Bosniandom was preserved throughout the
periods of Austro-Hungarian (1878-1918) and Yugoslav (1918-1992) rule.[8]

Subregions
 Podrinje, eastern
 Bosanska Krajina, northwestern
 Central Bosnia, central
 Posavina, northernmost
 Semberija, northeastern
 Tropolje, western

Gallery
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Gradačac - City castle

Sarajevo - View from east.

Franciscan monastery in Fojnica

Mountains in Bosnia

Banski dvor in Banja Luka

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 Una River - (view from Brekovica)

See also
 History of Bosnia
 Herzegovina

References
1.

 Supporters of Gimbutas' "kurgan model" of Indo-European expansion identify both the

preceding Baden culture and Vučedol as Indo-European speakers, though no trace of a written
language for either can be expected; see Mallory and Adams, eds., Encyclopedia of Indo-
European Culture, 1997; "A succession of Kurgan 'waves' of expansion was set out, the fourth
influencing the Vucedol culture of Yugoslavia. This was significant for the further
'Kurganization' of Europe by the Bell Beaker people." (Colin Renfrew, Archaeology and
Language: the puzzle of Indo-European origins, 1990:39)
  Ivan Mužić (December 2010). "Bijeli Hrvati u banskoj Hrvatskoj i županijska Hrvatska".
Starohrvatska prosvjeta (in Croatian). Split, Croatia: Museum of Croatian Archaeological
Monuments. III (37): 270. ISSN  0351-4536. Retrieved 2012-09-12. Bosna u obujmu, u kakvom
se navodi u djelu DAI kao jedinstvena teritorijalna jedinica, protezala se, kako neki autori
smatraju, na području u kojem su prije prebivali Desitijati (M. Hadžijahić). Ti Desitijati, koji su
nastavali istočnu i srednju Bosnu počevši od Travnika prema Rogatici pa dalje, imali su središte
oko današnje Breze. (Mandić 1942, str. 133.)
  Vladimir Ćorović, Teritorijalni razvoj bosanske države u srednjem vijeku, Glas SKA 167,
Belgrade, 1935, pp. 10-13
  Mrgić-Radojčić 2004, p. 52–53.
  Pinson, Mark (1996) [1993]. The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Historic
Development from Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia (Second ed.). United States of
America: President and Fellows of Harvard College. p. 11. ISBN 0-932885-12-8. Retrieved
2012-05-06. [...] in Bosnia Jajce under Hungarian garrison actually held until 1527
  Moravcsik 1967, p. 161.
  Ramet 1989, p. 303.

1.  Donia & Fine 1994, p. 71-74.

Sources
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Tradition Betrayed. New York: Columbia University Press.
 Fine, John V. A. Jr. (1991) [1983]. The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from
the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan
Press. ISBN  0-472-08149-7.
  Fine, John Van Antwerp (1994) [1987]. The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey
from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. Ann Arbor, Michigan:
University of Michigan Press. ISBN  0-472-08260-4.
 Moravcsik, Gyula, ed. (1967) [1949]. Constantine Porphyrogenitus: De Administrando
Imperio (2nd revised ed.). Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine
Studies.
 Mrgić-Radojčić, Jelena (2004). "Rethinking the Territorial Development of the Medieval
Bosnian State". Историјски часопис. 51: 43–64.
 Ramet, Pedro (1989) [1984]. "Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslavia". Religion and
Nationalism in Soviet and East European Politics (2. ed.). Durham-London: Duke
University Press. pp. 299–327.
 Živković, Tibor (2010). "On the Beginnings of Bosnia in the Middle Ages". Spomenica
akademika Marka Šunjića (1927-1998). Sarajevo: Filozofski fakultet. pp. 161–180.

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