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Siege Of Sarajevo
The siege of Sarajevo () was a prolonged military blockade of Sarajevo, the capital of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the ethnically charged Bosnian War. After it was initially besieged by Serbian forces of the Yugoslav People's Army, the city was then besieged by the Army of Republika Srpska. Lasting from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996 (1,425 days), it was three times longer than the Battle of Stalingrad, more than a year longer than the siege of Leningrad, and was therefore the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. When Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia after the 1992 Bosnian independence referendum, the Bosnian Serbs—whose strategic goal was to create a new Bosnian Serb state of Republika Srpska (RS) that would include Bosniak-majority areas—encircled Sarajevo with a siege force of 13,000 stationed in the surrounding hills. From there they blockaded the city, and assaulted it with artillery, tanks, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosnian War
The Bosnian War ( / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. Following several earlier violent incidents, the war is commonly seen as having started on 6 April 1992 when the newly independent Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina was internationally recognized. It ended on 21 November 1995 when the Dayton accords, Dayton Accords were initialed. The main belligerents were the forces of the government of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and those of the breakaway proto-states of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republika Srpska (1992–1995), Republika Srpska which were led and supplied by Croatia and Republic of Serbia (1992–2006), Serbia, respectively. The war was part of the breakup of Yugoslavia. Following the Slovenian and Croatian secessions from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugosla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatian Republic Of Herzeg-Bosnia
The Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia () was an unrecognized geopolitical entity and quasi-state in Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was proclaimed on 18 November 1991 under the name Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia () as a "political, cultural, economic and territorial whole" in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and abolished on 14 August 1996. The Croatian Community of Bosnian Posavina, proclaimed in northern Bosnia on 12 November 1991, was joined with Herzeg-Bosnia in October 1992. In its proclaimed borders, Herzeg-Bosnia encompassed about 30% of the country, but did not have effective control over the entire territory as parts of it were lost to the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) at the beginning of the Bosnian War. The armed forces of Herzeg-Bosnia, the Croatian Defence Council (HVO), were formed on 8 April 1992 and initially fought in an alliance with the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Their relations deteriorated thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mušan Topalović
Mušan "Caco" Topalović (20 April 1957 – 26 October 1993) was a Bosnian gangster and warlord from Sarajevo, commander of the 10th Mountain Brigade in the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Caco was also a smuggler, thief and gangster inside the besieged capital Sarajevo. Topalović was also formerly a folk musician. Caco only became a brigade commander because of the confusion of the Yugoslav secession crisis in the spring of 1992. He managed to form his own brigade while the Bosnian government pursued a resolution. Caco and his forces were notorious for war crimes against the civilian population, particularly the killing of Serb civilians, many of whom were later exhumed from Kazani pit and identified. Activities and crimes Caco's brigade was infamous for rounding up Sarajevo's citizens and forcing them to dig defensive positions in his areas of responsibility. This included the family members of senior government officials and army generals. Some of those pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nedžad Ajnadžić
Nejat (and its variants Necat, Nexhat and Nedžad) is a Turkish male name of Persian origin. The name is found in the Turkish, Albanian and Bosnian languages. The name derived from the Persian word "Nezhad or Nijâd " meaning "race and nobility". In Farsi, the language of Iran, "Nejat" means salvation or rescue. People Given name *Necat Ekinci, Turkish boxer * Nejat Alp (born 1952), Turkish musician * Nenad Bijedić (1959–2011), Bosnian-Turkish football player, also known as Nejat Biyediç or Vardar * Nejat Eczacıbaşı (1913–1993), Turkish chemist, industrialist, entrepreneur and philanthropist * Nejat İşler (born 1972), Turkish actor * Nejat Konuk (born 1928), former prime minister of Northern Cyprus * Nejat Saydam (1929–2000), Turkish film director, screenwriter and actor * Nejat Tulgar, (1920–1984), Turkish Olympic fencer * Nejat Tümer (1924–2011), Turkish admiral * Nejat Uygur (1927–2013), Turkish actor and comedian * Nejat Düzgüneş (born 1950), Turki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vahid Karavelić
Vahid (Persian: وحيد), also spelt Vahit, is the Persian, Turkish, Kurmanji Kurdish and Bosnian variant of the Arabic masculine given name Wahid, meaning "The One", "Unique". People named Vahid include: Given name Vahid * Vahid Abasov (born 1997), Serbian boxer * Vahid Ahmadov (born 1957), Azerbaijani politician and parliamentarian * Vahid Alaghband (born 1952), British commodities trader * Vahid Alakbarov (born 1950), Russian businessman and oligarch * Vahid Aliabadi (born 1990), Iranian footballer * Vahid Aliyev (born 1969), Azerbaijani general * Vahid Amiri (born 1988), Iranian footballer * Vahid Asgari (born 1985), Iranian footballer * Vahid Asghari (born 1986), Iranian journalist, activist and political prisoner * Vahid Aziz (born 1945), Azerbaijani poet and translator * Vahid Bayatlou (born 1987), Iranian footballer and manager * Vahid Dalirzahan (born 1995), Iranian basketballer * Vahid Dasgardi (died 1942), Iranian poet, writer and journalist * Vahid Evazzade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mustafa Hajrulahović Talijan
Mustafa Hajrulahović "Talijan" (22 January 1957 – 8 March 1998) was a Bosnian military officer and later a general of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in charge of the defence of Sarajevo. He graduated from the military academy in Split, Croatia in 1979. In 1991, he left the JNA with the rank of Captain and deserted to the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. For most of the war, he was the commander of the 1st Corps, but at the end of the war, he was placed in the war Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was very popular in the army and with the people. He was one of the key people in the defense of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, in a city besieged and helpless amid a relentless onslaught of artillery and sniper fire. Hajrulahović died of a heart attack when he was visiting his mother in Hamburg, Germany. He was buried in a specially marked grave near Ali Pasha Mosque in Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ), ; ''see Names of European cities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enver Hadžihasanović
Enver Hadžihasanović (7 July 1950 – 16 December 2024) was a Bosnian chief of staff of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and a convicted war criminal. Biography Hadžihasanović was born in 1950 in Zvornik, at the time part of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. Military career Hadžihasanović graduated from the military academy in Belgrade in 1973. He then was transferred to the military stations in Tuzla and Sarajevo. As captain first class he led the command in the military academy in Belgrade. After that school closed, he was given the rank of major and commanded the battalion of the military police of the 7th Army in 1988. After a while, he was given the command of the 49th Motorized Brigade. That brigade was later transformed into a mechanized brigade; at the end of 1989 he was the commander of that brigade, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Military house confinement In the beginning of April 1992, Hadžihasanović was sentenced to mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragan Vikić
Dragan Vikić (Cyrillic: Драган Викић; 8 October 1955) is a Bosnian former military officer with the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War. Biography Youth and sports career He was born in a mixed marriage, from a Croat father and a Serb mother. After finishing high school, he graduated from the Faculty of Physical Education of the University of Sarajevo in 1980. As a member of the Bosna karate club, he was a three-time senior champion of Yugoslavia in the heavy-weight category and won medals at the European team championships from 1977 to 1983 as a member of the national team. Bosnian War At the beginning of the war on 6 April 1992, the President of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Alija Izetbegović entrusted him with the command of the joint forces Territorial Defense and the police. Vikić issued a proclamation: "the defenders of Sarajevo will not open fire on members of the Yugoslav People's Army ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jovan Divjak
Jovan Divjak ( sr-cyrl, Јован Дивјак; 11 March 1937 – 8 April 2021) was a Bosnian army general who served as the Deputy Commander of the Bosnian army's general staff until 1994, during the Bosnian War. Early life and education Divjak was born in Belgrade to parents originally from the Bosanska Krajina region of Bosnia. His father was stationed in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) in Serbia. His family, like himself when he was alive, currently reside in Sarajevo, where Divjak moved in 1966. From 1956 to 1959, he attended the Military Academy in Belgrade. In 1964 and 1965, he attended the École d'État Major in Paris. Although Divjak was an ethnic Serb born in Serbia, he identified as a Bosnian. Career From 1969 to 1971, Divjak was in the Cadet Academy in Belgrade, and from 1979 to 1981, he served in the War and Defense Planning School there. After several posts in the JNA, he was appointed Territorial Defense Chief in command of the Mostar sector from 1984 to 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rasim Delić
Rasim Delić (4 February 1949 – 16 April 2010) was the Chief of staff (military), chief of staff of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Army. He was a career officer in the Yugoslav National Army, Yugoslav Army but left it during the breakup of Yugoslavia and was convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for failing to prevent and punish crimes committed by the Bosnian mujahideen, El Mujahid unit under his command. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison. Career Yugoslav People’s Army Delić began his military career in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) on 1 October 1967 at the Military Academy for land forces, where he completed his studies there on 31 July 1971. From 1971 to 1985 he served in an artillery division of the JNA based in Sarajevo and from October 1980 to September 1984 as its commander. From September 1984 to August 1985, Rasim served as Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander of a joint artillery re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sefer Halilović
Sefer Halilović (born 6 January 1952 in Prijepolje) is a Bosnian former general and commanding officer of the Bosnian Army during the 1992–95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2001, he was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and acquitted of all charges in 2005. Early life and education Halilović was born in Taševo, a hamlet in the Prijepolje municipality in the Zlatibor District geographical region of Sandžak, then Yugoslavia. He attended the military academy in Belgrade in 1971 for three years and in 1975 he attended the military school in Zadar where he became an Officer in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). From 1980 until the war he served in Vinkovci as an Army security officer. On 31 August 1990 he went to Belgrade and attended a two-year course at the school for commanders. Career When Halilović left the Yugoslav People's Army in September 1991 he was a professional military officer and held the rank of major. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
