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Herzegovina
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Herzegovina ( or ; , ) is the southern and smaller of two main geographical regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being Bosnia. It does not have strictly defined administrative borders today; however, in the past it was organized as Sanjak of Herzegovina (1470–1833; 1851–1912) and Herzegovina Eyalet (1830–1851).
Herzegovina is the southern and smaller geographical region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country in southeastern Europe. Though it lacks clearly defined administrative borders today, it was historically organized as a distinct administrative division under Ottoman rule for several centuries.
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Vinony's link graph records 1,152 inbound references to Herzegovina, and connects out to Tvrtko I of Bosnia, World War I and Serbo-Croatian.
The entry is geolocated on the map in BA, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Herzegovina, Historical regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Key facts
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- Herzegovina
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- Historical region in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Approximate region of Herzegovina
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- Regions
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- East Herzegovina, Herzegovina-Neretva, West Herzegovina, Canton 10
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- Largest city
- Settlement <! See Template:Infobox settlement for additional fields and descriptions >.seat
- Mostar
- Settlement <! See Template:Infobox settlement for additional fields and descriptions >.established_date
- 15th century
- Settlement <! See Template:Infobox settlement for additional fields and descriptions >.area_total_km2
- 12,188
- Settlement <! See Template:Infobox settlement for additional fields and descriptions >.area_land_km2
- 12,000
- Settlement <! See Template:Infobox settlement for additional fields and descriptions >.population_total
- 437,095
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- Herzegovinian
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- historical region
- Named after
- Herzog
- Demonym
- hersegovasce
- Country
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Located in
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Area
- 11000
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- Herzegovina
- topic's main category
- Category:Herzegovina
- native label
- Херцеговина
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Medieval period
- ''Humska zemlja'' under Kosača's
- Ottoman period
- Modern history
- Geography
- Cities and towns
- Administration
- Population
- Culture
- Monuments
- Religion
- Music
- Tourism
- Image gallery
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Herzegovina ( or ; , ) is the southern and smaller of two main geographical regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being Bosnia. It does not have strictly defined administrative borders today; however, in the past it was organized as Sanjak of Herzegovina (1470–1833; 1851–1912) and Herzegovina Eyalet (1830–1851).
Bosnia, the larger of the two regions, lies to the north of Herzegovina; the Croatian region of Dalmatia lies to the southwest; the Montenegrin region of Old Herzegovina lies to the southeast. The land area of Herzegovina is around , or around 23–24% of the country. The largest city is Mostar, in the center of the region. Other large settlements include Trebinje, Široki Brijeg, Ljubuški, Čapljina, Konjic and Posušje.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Herzegovina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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