Countries in my Mission: Bosnia; Part 4

Bosnia.

A brief history of Bosnia is first. Bosnia has been ruled by many people in the time Columbus set off on his adventure Bosnia was being ruled by Ottoman. This reign last from 1463-1878, what I would call a very long time to have the same family rule one country. I know that there have been others that have had longer ones but I don't care. Then in 1878 the Austro-Hungarians took over and started to rule instead of the old king. This lasted until 1918. Those Hungarians don't know how to keep a country under their rule. After WWI the first Yugoslavian Kingdom was created, and last right up to 1941 when Hitler or the Nazis took over. After WWII the Socialistic Yugoslavia was created, but not until after a lot of blood shed that was caused by two rebel groups, one for a communistic government and the other for a republic system. I bet you can tell who won. Bosnia was part of this government until 1992 when they broke off and started the Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the 1990's after they broke off the Bosnian War was started. This was started because the Bosnian people had no say in government it was Serbians and Croatian. So they reformed the government. This war was one that could have been prevented if the people just know how to reform the none lethal way. Now Bosnia has a Federal Democratic Republic.

O.K. enough with the history stuff. Bosnia's cultures has a lot of music, sports, and even movies. Movies are one of Bosnia's biggest like. One of the movies that was made in Bosnia was the 2001 No Man's Land. Sports Bosnia has a lot of different sports that they like. There is boxing, soccer, handball, karate, and even Chess. They have these chess boards that are life sized and they have tournament with them. It would be really cool to play with one of those chess sets. Bosnia held the 1984 14th winter Olympics. Even though they were still under the rule of Yugoslavia, it is like how we in Utah held the 2002 winter Olympics.

Tourism is also really big. It is based on some of their historical sites. The capital city or Sarajevo was named as one of the top 100 cities to visit in the world. There are a lot of other cool places to visit as well.

The food sounds really good with the stuff that they have in it, but looks really discusting. I guess that if I want to find out how it really is I well have to try it. Most of it is like the rest of my country sense they all have had the same background pretty much.

Here are some pics of the place.

Countries in my Mission: Montenegro; Part 3.

Montenegro.

There isn't much to tell about Montenegro. They split off from Serbia in 2006, like I said in my last blog. Right now the biggest income for the country is tourism. It was declared as the fastest growing tourism attraction in 2004.

The government in a Parliamentary Republic. For those that don't know what a Parliamentary Republic is, it is basically what England has. You have a parliament and then a prime minister.

Sports, the biggest sports are waterpolo and soccer. Since their soccer teams are now Serbian teams, they don't have any soccer teams. They are trying to create new one but so far not much luck. So there you have it.

It looks like it is really beautiful over there. Just look for yourself.

Kolasin Town

Monostery of Ostrog

Budva in 1900

Countries in my mission: Serbia. Part 2

Serbia.

Serbia has been part of many countries. It just got out of the Montenegro and Serbia Union in 2006. That country was started in 2003 and before that it was known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The government at the time is a parliamentary republic.

Weather. The weather is not much different than here in Utah. Serbia is just more humid than Utah. During the summer it is hot and during the winter it doesn't get as cold as here in Utah.

Sports. Serbia has a few big sports there. The main sports or the biggest are soccer, basketball, tennis, and water polo. In soccer they have two teams besides the national Serbian teams the Red Star Belgrade and the FK Partizan. The Red Star Belgrade team is a formal Yugoslavia team. It also won the 1991 Euro Cup and the Intercontential Cup in Tokyo in the same year. Both have their headquarter in Belgrade. In water polo they got the bronze medal in the 2008 summer Olympics and has 6 titles of Euro Champs. In basketball they won the 1991 Euro basketball championship but could not defend it the next year for the UN did not let them participate. In tennis they have two very big tennis players, Jelena Jankovic and Novak Djokovic.

Jelena Jankovic

Red Star Belgrade

Stadion Crvena Zvezda

FK Partizan

Novak Djokovic


Tourism. Serbia has five national parks. The big cities are also very big tourism places and Serbia has a lot of mountain areas that are very popular like the volcanic wonder Davolja Varos. There are many ancient buildings and they have great festivals. There are also really cool castles in Serbia.










The Fortress of Bac

Studenica Monastery

Belgrade University


Monument of the Unknown Hero of WWI

Golubac Fortress