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Sandžak Faction
The Sandžak faction or Sandžak lobby (Sandžački lobi),; known in Bosnian as ''Sandžaklije'', was one of the two main divisions of the Bosnian government and the ruling Party of Democratic Action () during the Bosnian War (1992–95; see Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina). It was made up of military hardliners and settlers (migrants) from Sandžak, a region divided between SR Serbia and SR Montenegro (see Bosniaks of Serbia and Bosniaks of Montenegro). Commander Sefer Halilović and politician Ejup Ganić belonged to the faction. According to Sarajevan writer Željko Vuković, Sandžak immigrants controlled most of the municipal, political and military power during the war. On the eve of the war, some 160,000 people of Sandžak origin lived in Sarajevo. There is a view that Sandžak immigrants were prior to the war second-class citizens, who during the war climbed the social ladder. Notable people * Sefer Halilović, military commander * Ramiz Dreković, military command ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosnian Language
Bosnian (; / ; ), sometimes referred to as Bosniak ( / ; ), is the standard language, standardized Variety (linguistics)#Standard varieties, variety of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language mainly used by ethnic Bosniaks. Bosnian is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, alongside Croatian language, Croatian and Serbian language, Serbian, all of which are Mutual intelligibility#List of dialects or varieties sometimes considered separate languages, mutually intelligible. It is also an officially recognized minority language in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Kosovo. Bosnian uses both the Gaj's Latin alphabet, Latin and Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Cyrillic alphabets, with Latin in everyday use. It is notable among the variety (linguistics), varieties of Serbo-Croatian for a number of Arabic, Persian language, Persian and Ottoman Turkish loanwords, largely due to the language's interaction with those cultures through Islam in Bosnia and H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ejup Ganić
Ejup Ganić (born 3 March 1946) is a Bosnian engineer, politician and academic who served as President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1997 to 1999 and from 2000 to 2001. A former member of the Party of Democratic Action, he also served as member of the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1990 to 1996. Ganić holds an ScD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the founder and current chancellor of the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology. Early life and education Ganić was born on 3 March 1946 in Sebečevo village near Novi Pazar in the Sandžak geographical region of Serbia, then a part of SFR Yugoslavia. He graduated from the University of Belgrade, and holds an ScD in engineering science from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Political career During the Bosnian War, Ganić served in the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was a member of the Party of Democratic Action (SD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosniak History
Bosniaks are a South Slavic ethnic group, native to the region of Bosnia of which the majority are Muslims. The term Bosniaks was used to describe everyone in that region regardless of their religion until late 1800s. It was established again after decades of suppression in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The Bosniak Assembly adopted the ethnonym to replace "Bosnian Muslims." Scholars believe that the move was partly motivated by a desire to distinguish the Bosniaks from the term Muslim to describe their nationality in the former Yugoslavia. These scholars contend that the Bosniaks are distinguishable from comparable groups (such as the Croats and the Serbs) due to a collective identity based on a shared environment, cultural practices and experiences. Medieval Bosnia The Slavs settled in Bosnia, Herzegovina and the surrounding lands, which were part of the Eastern Roman Empire, in the seventh century. The Slavic Serbs and Croats settled some time after the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosnian Nationalism
Bosnians (Serbo-Croatian: / ; / , / ) are people native to the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially the region of Bosnia. The term ''Bosnian'' refers to all inhabitants/citizens of the country, though people from the region of Hercegovina may prefer the demonym ''Hercegovinian''. The term is used regardless of any ethnic, cultural or religious affiliation. It can also be used as a designation for anyone who is descended from the region of Bosnia. ''Bosnian'' as a demonym is a nationality and does not imply any specific ethnic group. The term should not be confused with the ethnonym ''Bosniak'', which refers to the largest ethnic group in the country. The native ethnic groups of Bosnia and Herzegovina are Bosniaks (50.1%), Bosnian Serbs (30.8%) and Bosnian Croats (15.5%). Terminology In modern English, term ''Bosnians'' is the most commonly used exonym for the general population of Bosnia. In older English literature, inhabitants of Bosnia were sometimes also ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fahrudin Radončić
Fahrudin Radončić (; born 24 May 1957) is a Bosnian media magnate, entrepreneur, investor, and politician who served as the Minister of Security on two occasions. He is the founder of the '' Dnevni avaz,'' the best-selling newspaper in Bosnia and Herzegovina and is the founder and current president of the Union for a Better Future. From 2015 to 2019, Radončić was also a member of the national House of Peoples. Biography Born in Ivangrad, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia, Radončić finished elementary and high school in Titograd. He started working in journalism at 19, and at 23 he was editor of the Republican Youth Magazine "Youth Movement in Podgorica". In the same period he got involved in politics as a member of the League of Communists of Montenegro, serving as executive secretary of the Republican Organization of the Union of Communists in Titograd until 1988. He has stated that his mother is of Albanian origin. From 1989 until the beginning of the war in Bosnia and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramiz Delalić
Ramiz Delalić (15 February 196327 June 2007), widely known by his nickname Ćelo (The word means "baldy" - a common nickname in Sarajevo for criminals, because their heads were shaven during their time spent in prison), was a Bosnian organized crime figure, war criminal and commander of the 9th Mountain Brigade in Sarajevo. He was one of several prominent underworld figures engaged by the Party of Democratic Action in preparations for the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Delalić gained notoriety as the main suspect who stood trial before a local court for the killing of Nikola Gardović on 1 March 1992. Activities Delalić, along with Mušan "Caco" Topalović were two of the criminals who helped to organize Bosniak paramilitaries in Sarajevo. In addition to guarding key positions on Mount Trebević, their gangs "requisitioned" private vehicles; kidnapped men to dig trenches at the front; murdered, raped and robbed with impunity. Despite the stories surrounding him later dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selmo Cikotić
Selmo Cikotić (born 25 January 1964) is a Bosnian politician who served as Minister of Security from 2020 to 2023. He was also the Minister of Defence from 2007 to 2012. He is currently serving a three-year prison sentence for corruption in Vojkovići prison. A member of the Party of Democratic Action, Cikotić's career in the army spanned for 20 years, being in the Yugoslav People's Army, the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War, and lastly in the Army of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was ranked as brigadier. Early career In February 1993, Cikotić was made commander of operational group Zapad of the 3rd Corps of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Bugojno. He served as the military attaché at the embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United States in Washington, D.C. from December 1994 to 1997. As brigadier general, Cikotić was enrolled at the United States Army Command and General Staff College at F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramiz Dreković
Ramiz, Rameez or Rhomeez / () is an Arabic masculine given name meaning "one who communicates well", "wise", "noble", or "intelligent".{{cite book, title=A Dictionary of Muslim Names, author= S. A. Rahman, publisher=Goodword Books, location=New Delhi, year=2001 Notable people *Ramiz Alia (1925–2011), former President of Albania * Ramiz Brahimaj (born 1992), MMA fighter * Ramiz Tafilaj (born 1949), Albanian-American businessman * Ramiz Jaraisy (born 1951), Arab-Israeli politician *Rameez Raja (born 1962), Pakistani cricketer and commentator *Ramiz Delalić (1963–2007), Bosnian fighter *Ramiz Mammadov (born 1968), Azerbaijani footballer *Ramiz Mamedov (born 1972), Azerbaijani-Russian footballer *Ramez Galal (born 1973), Egyptian prankster, actor, and singer *Ramiz Kerimov (born 1981), Azerbaijani footballer See also *Ramziddin Sayidov (born 1982), Uzbekistani judoka *KF Ramiz Sadiku, Kosovan football club *Ramez Wakel el-Gaw Ramez Wakel el-Gaw ("Ramez in Contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sefer Halilović
Sefer Halilović (born 6 January 1952 in Prijepolje) is a Bosnian former general and commanding officer of the Bosnian Army during the 1992–95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2001, he was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and acquitted of all charges in 2005. Early life and education Halilović was born in Taševo, a hamlet in the Prijepolje municipality in the Zlatibor District geographical region of Sandžak, then Yugoslavia. He attended the military academy in Belgrade in 1971 for three years and in 1975 he attended the military school in Zadar where he became an Officer in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). From 1980 until the war he served in Vinkovci as an Army security officer. On 31 August 1990 he went to Belgrade and attended a two-year course at the school for commanders. Career When Halilović left the Yugoslav People's Army in September 1991 he was a professional military officer and held the rank of major. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party Of Democratic Action
The Party of Democratic Action (; abbr. SDA) is a Bosniak nationalist, conservative political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. History The Party of Democratic Action (SDA) was founded on 26 May 1990 in Sarajevo, as a "party of Muslim cultural-historic circle". It was a realisation of Alija Izetbegović's idea of an Islamic religious and national party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Many members of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including imams, took part in the party's foundation. Alija, who was chosen as its chairman, tried to resolve disputes between the Muslim nationalist Islamists led by Omer Behmen and the left-wing Muslims led by Adil Zulfikarpašić. The party has its roots in the old Yugoslav Muslim Organization, a conservative Muslim party in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Yugoslav Muslim Organization was a successor of Muslimanska Narodna Organizacija (Muslim National Organization), a conservative Muslim party founded in 1906 during the Austro-Hungarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosniaks Of Montenegro
Bosniaks are an ethnic minority in Montenegro, first introduced in the 2003 census. According to the last census from 2023, the total number of Bosniaks in Montenegro was 58,956 or 9.45% of the population. Bosniaks are the third largest ethnic group in the country, after Montenegrins and Serbs of Montenegro, Serbs. Demographics Bosniaks primarily live in the Sandžak area of northern Montenegro, and form the majority of the population in four municipalities: Rožaje Municipality, Rožaje (84.7%), Petnjica Municipality, Petnjica (84%), Plav Municipality, Plav (65.6%) and Gusinje Municipality, Gusinje (57.1%). Politics *The main political party of Bosniaks is the Bosniak Party (BS), led by Ervin Ibrahimović. The party currently has three seats in Parliament of Montenegro. *There is also the Justice and Reconciliation Party in Montenegro (SPP u Crnoj Gori), led by Hazbija Kalač. The majority of Bosniaks of Montenegro were in favor of Montenegrin independence during the Montene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosniaks Of Serbia
Bosniaks of Serbia () are a recognized national minority in Serbia. According to the 2022 census, the population of ethnic Bosniaks in Serbia is 153,801, constituting 2.3% of the total population, which makes them the third largest ethnic group in the country. The vast majority of them live in the southwestern part of the country that borders Montenegro and Kosovo, called Sandžak. Their cultural center is located in Novi Pazar. Politics The first major political organisation of Bosniaks from Sandžak happened at the Sjenica conference, held in August 1917, during the Austro-Hungarian occupation of the former Sanjak of Novi Pazar. The Bosniak representatives at the conference decided to ask the Austro-Hungarian authorities to separate the Sanjak of Novi Pazar from Serbia and Montenegro and merge it with Bosnia and Herzegovina, or at least to give it autonomy in the region. After the end of World War I and the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
