Statehood Day ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Dan državnosti, Дан државности, separator=" / ") is a holiday celebrated in
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina that occurs every year on 25 November. On that day in 1943, at the first session of the
(ZAVNOBiH) in
Mrkonjić Grad
Mrkonjić Grad ( sr-cyrl, Мркоњић Град, ) is a town and municipality located in the western part of Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in the region of Bosanska Krajina, between Banja Luka and Jajce. A ...
, the "Resolution of ZAVNOBiH" was adopted. The resolution expressed determination of the peoples of BiH that their country shall be a
brotherly community in which full equality of all its nationalities was to be ensured, that
their republic was to be on equal footing with other republics in the
Yugoslav federation, and that Bosnia and Herzegovina would reclaim its
historical borders.
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The Law on the Proclamation of 25 November as the Statehood Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of R B&H, No. 9/95) stipulates that November 25 is Bosnia and Herzegovina's Statehood Day but this directive is, in practice, ignored by the authorities in the Republika Srpska entity.
Statehood Day should not to be confused with Independence Day, which is held each year on 1 March in honor of the 1992 referendum
A referendum (plural: referendums or less commonly referenda) is a direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue. This is in contrast to an issue being voted on by a representative. This may result in the adoption of a ...
that indicated that a majority of Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats were in favor of becoming a sovereign nation. The total turnout of voters was 63.73%, 99.7% of whom voted for independence while the majority of the Bosnian Serb population boycotted the referendum.
See also
* Independence Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Independence Day ( Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: ''Dan nezavisnosti'', Cyrillic: Дан независности) is a public holiday observed in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina held on 1 March to celebrate the independence of the then Rep ...
* Statehood Day (disambiguation) Statehood Day may refer to:
* Statehood Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
* Statehood Day (Croatia)
* Statehood Day (Czech Republic), a public holiday in the Czech Republic
* Statehood Day (Hawaii)
* Statehood Day (Lithuania)
* Statehood Day (Montene ...
in other countries
* Dan državnosti (disambiguation) Dan državnosti (Serbo-Croatian for ''Statehood Day'') may refer to:
* Statehood Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
* Statehood Day (Croatia)
* Statehood Day (Montenegro)
* Statehood Day (North Macedonia)
* Statehood Day (Slovenia)
Statehood Day ( sl ...
in other Balkan akin language speaking countries
* History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes referred to simply as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe on the Balkan Peninsula. It has had permanent settlement since the Neolithic Age. By the early historical period it was inhabited by Illyrians and Ce ...
* History of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...
References
Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina
November observances
National days
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