Herzégovine

The Herzégovine (in Bosnian: Hercegovina/Херцеговина is a historical geographical area of the the dinaric Alps, corresponding to the southernmost part of the Actual position of Bosnia-Herzégovine. Its name comes from German Herzog (duke) and thus means “duchy”.

It covers a surface of 9948 km ² or, according to other sources 10.190 km ². Indeed there does not exist precise delimitation and making consensus, between the Bosnia and Herzégovine (source: Wikipedia in Bosnian). It is at the 19th century that it was decided to associate the name of Herzégovine with that of Bosnia, before only used to indicate the whole country.

According to a census of 1991, Herzégovine had a population of 437.095 inhabitants, thus broken down by nationality: 206.457 Croatian (47,2%), 112.948 Bosnian (25,8%), 93.047 Serb (21,3%), 18.494 Yugoslav (4,2%) and 6149, is 1,4% remainders were recorded like other nationalities.

The territory of Herzégovine is made of hills and karstic grounds except for the valley Neretva. More the big city is Mostar, in the center. The other notable cities, at least those whose membership of Herzégovine does not make debate, are Trebinje, Konjic and Čapljina.

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