A little taste of Bosnia and Herzegowina after the recent wars..
The northern, southern and western Bosnia-Herzegovina Croatia toccano, those eastern Serbia and Montenegro. A narrow strip of Bosnia touches the Adriatic Sea via southern Croatia.
The Bosnian territory is divided between the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Republika Srpska and the Federation occupies a space slightly higher (51%).
The Dinaric Alps across the country, dividing it into three distinct ecosystems: the Mediterranean, Balkan and Central Europe.
In the northern plains and plateaus are crossed by the River Sava. The highest peak is the Maglic Herzegovina (2385 m) across the seismic zone characteristics.
The country was inhabited by Muslims, Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants, Jews and believers of other religions and ideologies before the outbreak of war.
Now the Republic of Serbia is almost exclusively Christian, and the almost exclusively Muslim Federation and the Serbs, Croats and Bosnian Muslims have all the same features as all belonging to the same ethnic group.
The Mediterranean influences, and Turkish esteuropee are all collected in the culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina there are considerable variations between orthodox and modern and between rural and urban mentality.
The family ties are close and are kept in view the very neighborly and friendly relations. Great importance is placed on sull'ospitalitĂ and spontaneity.
The varied population of Bosnia has become the cultural life of the nation of much value. Epic stories, a form of oral literature, were still being handed down throughout the country until the'50s.
The Bosnian love songs, mostly Muslim, were popular throughout the former Yugoslavia. Ivo Andrich, a Catholic raised in Serbian Bosnia, won the Nobel prize for literature in 1961. His novels included Na Drini copper, where a bridge of age Ottoman symbolically joined the Bosnian people.
The novelist Mesa Selimovic was Muslim but he had written on the lines of the Serbian literature.
The key differences between ethnic groups and religions are: Serbs are Orthodox Christians, Croats are Catholics, Bosnian Muslims with a minority of Jews.
The Bosnian cuisine has a strong bond with the Turkish culinary culture, especially evident in the vegetable stew in café and sweet cakes such as baklava.