Bosnia

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Bosnia
       n : a mountainous republic of south-central Europe; formerly
           part of the Ottoman Empire and then a part of Yugoslavia;
           voted for independence in 1992 but the mostly Serbian
           army of Yugoslavia refused to accept the vote and began
           ethnic cleansing in order to rid Bosnia of its Croats and


           Muslims [syn: {Bosnia and Herzegovina}, {Republic of
           Bosnia and Herzegovina}, {Bosna i Hercegovina}, {Bosnia-Herzegovina}]