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3 unusual facts about Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina


Building of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

After World War II, the building became the official residence of the President of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (within Yugoslavia), as well as the home of the Executive Committee of the People's Assembly.

Mirza Jelečak

Mirza Jelečak (born 2 March 1983 in Sarajevo) is a retired Bosnian-born Swedish footballer who last played for IK Sirius as a midfielder.

Nino Bule

Nino Bule (born 19 March 1976 in Čapljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is a retired Croatian footballer who played as a striker.


Damir Krupalija

Damir Krupalija (born June 13, 1979) is a Bosnian American professional basketball player born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia.

Dubravko Tešević

Dubravko "Dubi" Tešević (born December 18, 1981 in Foča, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Bosnian professional football player.

Jakov Brdar

Brdar was born in Livno, People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Jelena Lolović

Jelena Lolović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јелена Лоловић; born in Sarajevo, SR BiH, SFR Yugoslavia on July 14, 1981) is a Serbian alpine skier.

Ljubo Jurčić

Ljubo Jurčić is a Bosnian Croat born in the village of Ružići, near Grude, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia.

Mario Barić

Mario Barić (born April 15, 1985 in Travnik, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Bosnian professional football player who currently plays for FK Sarajevo in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Peri Marošević

Marošević was born in Bosnia in the Yugoslavia prior to the Bosnian War, and initially moved to Frankfurt, Germany with his parents as a young child to escape the conflict, before eventually settling in Rockford, Illinois.

Riki Cakić

Orhan "Riki" Cakić (born 17 July 1990 in Banja Luka) is a Bosnian-born Swedish footballer who plays for IK Sleipner on loan from IFK Norrköping as a midfielder.

Sulejman Smajić

Sulejman Smajić (born 25 June 1984 in Jajce, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian footballer who plays as a winger for FK Željezničar Sarajevo and the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.

Vladimir Radmanović

Born into the Serbian family of a JNA officer hailing from the Dalmatian coastal town of Zadar in Croatia, Radmanović was born in Trebinje, in the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the former Yugoslavia, where his father Stevan was stationed at the time.


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