Osnovi državnopravnog razvitka Bosne i Hercegovine
Principles of the State-Legal Development of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: Bosnia and Herzegovina has millennial existence. Bosnia was first mentioned in the second half of the tenth century in the work of the Byzantine emperor and author Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos “De Administrando Imperio“. As of 29 August 1189, the Charter of Kulin Ban bears undisputed evidence of Bosnia’s independence. During the reign of Tvrtko I Kotromanic in 1377, Bosnia was developed into the kingdom and became the most powerful country in the Balkans. The Ottoman power in Bosnia was established in 1463, however Bosnia retained certain features of political identification, first as the Province of Bosnia starting in 1580, afterwards as the Bosnian Vilayet since 1865, and receiving the position state of Corpus separatum under the Austro-Hungarian control. In the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, until 1929 the borders of Bosnia and Herzegovina were observed with regard to the country’s internal regionalization. The statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina, within the new Yugoslav Federation, was restored at the 1st Session of the State Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ZAVNOBiH) which had been taking place in Mrkonjic Grad on 25 November 1943. The aftermath of the Yugoslav crisis which had peaked in 1991 and 1992 was disintegration of Yugoslavia, and peoples and citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina voted for B&H’s independence at the referendum of 29 February and 1 March 1992. Key players of the irredentist Greater Serbian politics refused to accept such solution for Bosnia and Herzegovina, so the Aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina had been launched which, after three and a half years, was ended by painful compromises contained in the Dayton Peace Accords.

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