Word: bosnia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome. The 13 years of Zvonimir's rule were those of Croatia's broadest boundaries. The kingdom had an Adriatic coastline running from Fiume to Split and thrust inland almost to Belgrade. Croatian provincials have never forgotten that. Said the nationalistic Croatiapress in 1937: "Dalmatia, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Slavonia and Croatia ... are pure Croatian provinces and the Croatian people have the sole right to them...
After this deed Ante Pavelitch took refuge in Italy, which refused to expel him for French trial. He was sentenced to death in absentia. Last week he proclaimed himself first President of the new Croatia, including Bosnia. Herzegovina, Dalmatia and the old Croat Province. He named as his Premier his fellow Terrorist Slavko Kvaternik. Balkan experts tended to discount as propaganda rumors that the venerable Croat Peasant Leader Vladimir Matchek had sided with the peasant-haters...
There is a Serbian proverb, from the time of the Turks, which says that when Serbia is threatened the peasants pick up their guns and sing. Serbia's peasants marched and sang last week. So did the peasants of Bosnia, of Macedonia and of Montenegro. At Kragujevac in Old Serbia they marched round & round the village singing Oi Serbio! At Skoplje in South Serbia they sang Macedonian revolutionary songs. At Berane in Montenegro they sang battle songs from the days of the Turkish-Montenegrin wars. At Banja Luka in Bosnia they sang Be Ready, Komitadjis...