Statehood Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Statehood Day (Serbo-Croatian Latin: Dan državnosti, Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Дан државности) is a holiday that occurs every year on 25 November in Bosnia and Herzegovina to commemorate the day in 1943 on which the ZAVNOBiH made Resolution of ZAVNOBiH declaring BiH peoples' will for BiH to be their country.[2][3][4]

Statehood Day
Official nameDan državnosti / Дан државности
Observed byBosnia and Herzegovina[1]
Significancecommemorate the day in 1943 on which the ZAVNOBiH made Resolution of ZAVNOBiH declaring BiH peoples' will for BiH to be their country
Date25 November
Next time25 November 2020 (2020-11-25)
Frequencyannual

The Law on the Proclamation of 25 November as the Statehood Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of R BiH, No. 9/95) stipulates that on 25 November is the Statehood Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina (the law is today taken over and valid only for Federation of BiH entity).[2]

Statehood Day is not to be confused with BiH's Independence Day, which is held each year on 1 March in honor of the 1992 plebiscite that indicated that 63.6% (invalid, not 2/3 majority for plebiscite to be considered legal in favor of that majority)[5] of Bosnians and Herzegovinians were in favor of becoming a sovereign nation.[6]

See also

References
  1. parlament.ba (direct download link)
  2. fmrsp.gov.ba
  3. www.starmo.ba
  4. dnevni-list.ba
  5. Nohlen Stöver (2010). p. 334.
  6. "Danas je Dan nezavisnosti Bosne i Hercegovine". Radio Sarajevo. 1 March 2012. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2019.


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