Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the map of history

What was Bosnia and Herzegovina before it was Bosnia and Herzegovina? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History collection — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.

Illyricum (mod. Bosnia) · The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476

264 BC	Tribal peoples & confederations — the opening position
AD 14	Roman territory
AD 476	Former Roman lands (lost)

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Bosnia · The Crusades, 1095–1291

1095	Latin Christendom — the opening position

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Bosnia · The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294

1206	Other settled powers (Jin China, Christendom, Delhi) — the opening position

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Bosnia and Herzegovina · The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848

JUL 1789

Neutral / uncommitted — the opening position

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Bosnia (Austria-Hungary) · The Great War, 1914–1918

JUL 1914	The Central Powers — the opening position
NOV 1918	Empires in collapse (1918–19)
JUN 1919	Neutral
NOV 1918	Empires in collapse (1918–19)

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Bosnia and Herzegovina · The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945

MAY 1941	Axis-occupied — the opening position
MAY 1941	Axis-occupied
MAY 1945	Soviet Union

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Bosnia and Herzegovina · The Cold War, 1945–1991

AUG 1945	Soviet-aligned states — the opening position
OCT 1949	Communist, outside Moscow’s bloc
DEC 1991	In upheaval / changing sides
MAY 1949	Communist, outside Moscow’s bloc
DEC 1991	In upheaval / changing sides

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