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About Me
Hello And Welcome To My User Page
My name is Adrien and I was born the 28th of June, year 1978. I've lived most of my life in Lyon, although the origin of my family is Bosnian from the town of Zvornik, in eastern Bosnia. My interests vary all the way from Sports to Politics that concern Bosnia and Herzegovina and its people Bosniaks.
From the Bosniak's point of view, I truly had the luck to be spared from the Aggression On Bosnia And Herzegovina in those difficult years between 1992 and 1995 that many of my compatriots had to live through. But many of my relatives that lived in Bosnia witnessed the genocide and killing of civil Bosniaks, before the aggression Zvornik had a Bosnian majority, but today it is a town dominated by serbs.
My aim on Wikipedia is to protect Bosnian articles from those, hopefully few, editors who are serbian and croatian hard line nationalists. And also to make the articles completly Npov.
I chose my wikipedia user name after the name Bosna (Bosnia), which is derived from the Illyrian word Bosona. I changed the a for an i, to create the Illyrian tribe name of Bosona, Bosoni.
If there's anything you would like to ask, don't hesitate.
Bye =)
Useful Links On Bosnia
UN document on attrocities towards Bosniaks ("Bosnian Muslims")
Must read articles about Bosnia and Balkan conflict
Guardian Unlimited special report on Serb soldiers (Guardian Unlimited)
Genocide in Yugoslavia (Bosniaks refferd to as "Muslims")
Brief Introduction To The History Of Bosnia and Bosniaks
The earliest well known inhabitants of Bosnia and Herzegovina are the Illyrians. This ancient people were influencial to Bosnia for thousands of years, however the Illyrians eventually lost control of the Illyrian kingdom after engaging in several wars with the Roman empire.
The Roman province of Illyricum was established and the Illyrians continued to live under Roman rule. The Illyrians were renowned for their military prowess and they became an important source of manpower for the Roman army. Several notable Roman emperors came from Illyria, including Aurelian, Claudius II, Constantine I and Diocletian as well as the Byzantine emperor Justinian.
The Western Roman Empire fell approximately year 480, and the Illyrians in Bosnia enjoyed a relative independence for a brief period. However, in the 6th century, Slavic tribes started to settle the area which was under Byzantium at the time. The Illyrians, who had been under foreign rule for several centuries, lacked the necessary strenght to protect their culture and language from the invading Slavic tribes, who were renowned known for their brutality and aggressiveness.
Within the nearest three centuries the Illyrians, in what would become Bosnia, were assimilated into Slavic customs and western south slavic language was developed amongst them.
As a distinct political entity, the country of Bosnia presumably originated sometime during the Dark Ages with the collapse of the traditional tribal social structure and advent of feudalism. The name Bosnia (Bosna) originates from the Illyrian word of Bosona which means running water, the name was established by the Slav-influenced Illyrians who inhabited the lands surrounding the river Bosna, located in the Bosnian heartland.
This people would later be called, in old Bosnian language, Bosnjani (In Latin: Bosniensis). Over the next centuries, 10th and on, the Bosnjani had their own bogomil Bosnian church which was separated from Catholic and Orthodox christianity. This was a reason for the neighbouring christians to send crusades towards the "heretic Bogomil" Bosnjanins.
Being under constant persecution many of the Bosnjani abandoned the Bosnian Church and converted primarily to Catholicism, and in lesser extent Orthodox christianity. There are several examples of Bosnian regents being Bogomil in religion, but converting to Catholicism in order to avoid persecution and remain at the power. However, the Bogomil religion had survived among Bosnia's rulers as late as until the 15th century. One example is the last Bosnian queen, Katarina Kosača-Kotromanić, who confessed herself to "heretic beliefs" but turned to Catholicism at the dawn of Ottoman invasion of Bosnia, this in order to seek allies in Rome that could guarantee the independence of Bosnia - she did however not recieve any support.
As Bosnia was occupied by the Ottomans, almost all of the Bogomil Bosnjanins converted to Islam in a rapid speed, also catholic and orthodox Bosnjani converted to a certain extent. But many stayed catholic or orthodox.
The Bosnjani found protection from Catholic and Orthodox churches under the rule of Ottomans, who brought with them a new religion, Islam, that had striking likenesses with the Bosnian Church. Many of the Bosnjani also converted to Islam because they wished to keep their power and influence under the new Muslim rule.
As the Ottomans ruled Bosnia, the name "Bosnjanin" was transformed into "Bosnjak" (In English, Bosniak), proper translation is although Bosnians. The translation Bosniaks has however come to be the prefered one, because the citizenry nation bosanci is usually but wrongly translated as Bosnians.
After some 500 years, the Ottomans lost control of Bosnia, and the Bosniaks lost a strong ally and protector. Bosnia was now a country dominated by Muslim Bosniaks, and the Catholic and Orthodox Bosniaks were immediately incorporated into the Slavic neighbours of Catholic Croatia and Orthodox Serbia through national manipulation.
Eventually Orthodox Bosniaks started to go by the name of "Bosnian Serbs" and Catholic Bosniaks as "Bosnian Croats". The remaining Bosniaks, the Muslim ones, were the target of discrimination during Yugoslavia. And were even forbidden to be called Bosniaks, as the name was abolished by Serbs and Croats. In the early 90's, when Bosniaks voted for Bosnian independence, Serb and Croat leaders Slobodan Milosevic and Franjo Tudman, agreed that it was necessary to split the "Serbian and Croatian land" of Bosnia in to two parts - a croatian and a serbian one, which would each be connected to Great Croatia, respectively Great Serbia. There was no place for the Bosniaks, or "Muslims by nationality" as they were called by the Serb and Croat leaders. In the eyes of Croat and Serb nationalists, Bosniaks were either "Muslim Croats" or "Muslim Serbs" who had betrayed Serbia or Croatia during the Ottomans, and needed to be punished.
And so the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina began, with the ethnic cleansing and systematic war rape of Bosniaks on Bosnian territory - leaving 200.000 Bosniaks dead. The Bosniaks had, before the aggression, inhabited a majority of Bosnia's areal, but are in post-war Bosnia reduced to a rough 30 per cent - though they make a majority of Bosnia's population.
