Culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina encompasses: The word culture, from the Latin colo, -ere, with its root meaning to cultivate, generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ...

Ancient cultural heritage

• Bosnian Cyrillic

Bosnian Cyrillic is an extinct Cyrillic script,that had mainly been used in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, Dalmatia and Dubrovnik in particular. ...

Writers

• Ivo Andric - Nobel Prize laureate of 1961
• Musa Casim Catic - early 20th century poet
• Mak Dizdar- the pre-eminent 20th century poet
• Zuko Dzumhur - cartoonist and travel writer
• Aleksandar Hemon - bestselling modern author (lives in the USA)
• Miljenko Jergovic - bestselling modern author
• Isak Samokovlija - best known for his portrayal of the Bosnian Sephardic (Jewish) community
• Mesa Selimovic - prose writer
• Abdulah Sidran - writer of prose, poetry and screenplays
• Dervis Susic

Ivo Andrić. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... Mak (Mehmedalija) Dizdar (Stolac 1917-Sarajevo 1971) a Bosniak that was probably one of the greatest Yugoslav poets of the 2nd half of the 20th century. ... Aleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian-born fiction writer living in the United States. ... Miljenko Jergović (born 1966) is a Bosnian and Croatian writer of prose. ... Mehmed Meša Selimović, Bosnian prose writer who lived in Bosnia was one of the greatest 20th century novelists of Southeastern Europe. ... Abdulah Sidran, born September 9th 1944 in Sarajevo, now Bosnia and Herzegovina, also referred to as Avdo, Bosnian writer who writes screenplays and dramas. ...

Films

• No Man's Land - Oscar-winning motion picture from Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Summer in Golden Valley - won several festivals in Europe
• War Crimes (film) - British war film set in Bosnia in the early 1990s. Features large amount of serbo-croat dialogue.

link title The debut of writer and director Danis Tanović in 2001, No Mans Land is a war/anti-war movie, a bleakly funny parable packed with irony, settled in 1993 during the Bosnian war. ... Academy Awards The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States. ... War Crimes is a 2005 film starring John Jenner and Earl Palmer. ... Motto: none Anthem: Intermeco Capital Sarajevo Largest city Sarajevo Official language(s) Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian Government Presidents Prime Minister Federal republic Sulejman Tihić1 (Bosniak) Borislav Paravac (Serb) Ivo Miro Jović (Croat) Adnan Terzic Independence From Yugoslavia Declared 5 April 1992 Area  - Total    - Water (%)   51,129 km² (124th) 19,741... Serbo-Croatian (srpskohrvatski or hrvatskosrpski) is a name for a language of the Western group of the South Slavic languages. ...

Music

Main article: Music of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Like the surrounding Balkan countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina has had a turbulent past marked by frequent foreign invasions and occupation. ...

Food

• Bosanski Lonac
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