Bosnia Bosna Босна | |||||||||
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8/9th century–1154 | |||||||||
Capital | possibly Katera or Desnik | ||||||||
Demonym | Bosnians | ||||||||
• Type | Principality | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 8/9th century | ||||||||
1154 | |||||||||
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Today part of | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Bosnia (Greek: Βοσωνα, romanized: Bosona, Serbo-Croatian: Босна, Bosna), in the Early Middle Ages to early High Middle Ages, was a territorially and politically defined South Slavic defined entity. Situated, broadly, around upper and middle course of the Bosna river, between valleys of the Drina river on the east and the Vrbas river on the west, which comprise a wider area of central and eastern modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina.