14 ATLASES
History of Bosnia and Herzegovina in maps
Bosnia and Herzegovina as it appears in 14 interactive history atlases, from 264 BC to 2015: Illyricum, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
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What was Bosnia and Herzegovina before it was Bosnia and Herzegovina? The sections below follow this land through every era covered by the Maps of History atlases: who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed. Each line links to the dated map. Modern borders serve as an approximation, as each atlas says on the map itself.
Illyricum (mod. Bosnia) · Ancient Rome
| 264 BC | Tribal peoples & confederations — the opening position |
| Roman territory | |
| Former Roman lands (lost) |
ANCIENT ROME: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Bosnia and Herzegovina · Norse and Aztecs
| Other peoples and states — the opening position |
NORSE AND AZTECS: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Bosnia · Crusades
| Latin Christendom — the opening position |
CRUSADES: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Bosnia · Mongol Empire
| Other settled powers (Jin China, Christendom, Delhi) — the opening position |
MONGOL EMPIRE: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Bosnia (Ottoman; Austrian from 1878) · Industrial Revolution
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Bosnia and Herzegovina · Age of Revolutions
| Neutral / uncommitted — the opening position |
AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Yugoslavia (Bosnia; independent from 1992) · Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia
| Non-aligned or stateless — the opening position | |
| War, rebellion, breakaway | |
| Independent neighbours |
MEIJI JAPAN AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Bosnia (Austria-Hungary) · WWI
Bosnia-Herzegovina remained an Ottoman province until 1878, when Austria-Hungary occupied and governed it (Ch. 1). Annexation followed outright in October 1908, setting off the first Balkan crisis (Ch. 2). Orthodox Serbs, Bosnian Muslims and Catholic Croats lived there, and young Bosnian Serbs made Sarajevo the place where the war began (Ch. 3). In 1918 it joined the new Yugoslav kingdom, a mixed population that mirrored the state it entered.
Yugoslavia (Bosnia) · Stalin’s Soviet Union
Tito’s partisans fought German occupiers and their local allies from 1941 and took power in 1945 with little help from the Red Army. Yugoslavia had liberated itself, which helps explain why Tito could defy Moscow. He was initially more radical than Stalin wished, yet refused to take orders. Yugoslavia was expelled from the Cominform in June 1948. It survived Soviet pressure, accepted Western aid and built its own non-aligned communism, opening the first crack in the Soviet bloc.
| Nazi Germany & its allies — the opening position | |
| Nazi Germany & its allies | |
| Satellites & communist allies | |
| Other states |
STALIN’S SOVIET UNION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Bosnia and Herzegovina · Road to WW2
| Neutral & unaligned — the opening position | |
| Occupied — held by force |
ROAD TO WW2: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Bosnia and Herzegovina · WW2
| Axis-occupied — the opening position | |
| Axis-occupied | |
| Soviet Union |
Bosnia and Herzegovina · Cold War
| Soviet-aligned states — the opening position | |
| Communist, outside Moscow’s bloc | |
| In upheaval / changing sides | |
| Communist, outside Moscow’s bloc | |
| In upheaval / changing sides |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Yugoslavia (Bosnia) · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Refused: women excluded; ERA never ratified — the opening position | |
| Right won in law | |
| Partial or unequal; treaty signed only; transition | |
| No reform yet / outside this story | |
| Right won in law |
FEMINISM AND THE TUNISIAN REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Yugoslavia (Bosnia) · Refugee crises
| Soviet-occupied or communist — the opening position |
REFUGEE CRISES: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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