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Dayton Agreement
Sign in to saveAlso known as General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dayton Peace Agreement
late-1995 treaty ending the Bosnian War
The Dayton Agreement is a peace treaty signed in late 1995 that ended the devastating Bosnian War. It matters because it stopped years of violent conflict in the Balkans and established the framework for Bosnia and Herzegovina's government and territorial divisions going forward.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- version, edition or translation
- Subclass of
- agreement
- Named after
- Dayton
- Location
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
- Image
- DaytonAgreement.jpg
- Participant
- Croatia
- Organizer
- United States
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- Commons category
- Dayton Agreement
- signatory
- Victor Chernomyrdin
- facet of
- War in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- point in time
- 1995-11-21
- section
- Annex 11: International Police Task Force
- short name
- Dayton
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Encyclopedic overview
The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Agreement or the Dayton Accords (Serbo-Croatian: Dejtonski mirovni sporazum / Дејтонски мировни споразум), and colloquially known as the Dayton (Serbo-Croatian: Dejton / Дејтон), is the peace agreement ending the three-and-a-half-year-long Bosnian War, an armed conflict part of the larger Yugoslav Wars. It was signed on 21 November 1995 in Dayton, Ohio, United States, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. It was re-signed ceremonially in Paris, France, on 14 December 1995.
The warring parties agreed to peace and to a single sovereign state known as Bosnia and Herzegovina composed of two parts: the largely Serb-populated Republika Srpska and mainly Croat-Bosniak-populated Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnia and Herzegovina entered into the related arms control treaty, the Florence Agreement, in 1996 under the Accords. The Dayton followed the Washington Agreement, signed the year prior, in collective efforts to delineate the country's geography.
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