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Bosnia

Bosnia

Bosnian men speak at the Grbavica football stadium, covered by snow, after part of the stands crumbled under the weight of the snow, in Sarajevo on February 13, 2012. The total number of deaths in the western Balkans was put at 56. Twenty people have died in Serbia, 13 in Bosnia, 10 in Kosovo, five in Montenegro, three in Croatia, three in Albania and two in Montenegro. More than 150 cm of snow fell in Bosnia in the last seven days.

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    Bosnia used helicopters on Sunday to evacuate the sick and deliver food to thousands of people left stranded by its heaviest snowfall ever, while Pope Benedict XVI donned an overcoat to bless the few pilgrims who braved Rome's unusually cold weather to vis   Read more »

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About Bosnia

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkan peninsula of southern Europe with an area of 51,129 km² (19,741 square miles), and an estimated population of around 4 million people. It is known in the country's official languages as Bosna i Hercegovina or Босна и Херцеговина (in the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets respectively), although the name is commonly abbreviated to Bosnia, BIH, BiH, БиХ or БИХ.

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