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some traditional Bosnian instruments from the Belgian Royal Museums of Art and History.

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The tattooing of a girl by Ewald Arndt Čeplin, some time before 1899. portrays a tattooing tradition from Bosnia most common among the Catholic community.

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who is this woman though

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She was reporter for CNN from Sarajevo during 1992-1995. Accused by many for being “pro Muslim”. She has famous quote:

"Some people accused me of being pro-Muslim in Bosnia, but I realised that our job is to give all sides an equal hearing, but in cases of genocide you can’t just be neutral. You can’t just say, "Well, this little boy was shot in the head and killed in besieged Sarajevo and that guy over there did it, but maybe he was upset because he had an argument with his wife." No, there is no equality there, and we had to tell the truth."

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Righteous Among the Nations - Salih Pozder Salih Pozder, a Muslim, lived in Sarajevo, where he was a well-known tailor managing an elite fashion house. In April 1941, after the Germans and their Axis allies conquered Yugoslavia, many anti-Jewish measures were issued, one of them forbidding non-Jews to employ Jews. Pozder, who wanted to save his Jewish worker, Bukica-Luna Altarac, from deportation, turned to the authorities and asked for a special work permit for her. The permit was granted and thus Altarac was able to remain in Sarajevo. (Her family was sent to concentration camps.) In early 1942, Altarac received a letter from a Jewish family in Donji Miholjac, near Osijek, telling her that her seven-year-old niece Rahela Montiljo was with them. She had been with them since the Jewish community in Osijek had been granted permission to take the Jewish children out of the Djakovo camp and place them with Jewish families in the area. Altarac turned to Pozder and told him about her niece and said that Rahela was in danger and needed to be rescued. Pozder unhesitatingly decided to do all he could to bring the girl to Sarajevo. After paying a lot of money for false papers and buying the Muslim garb for a young girl, Pozder traveled to Donji Miholjac to fetch Rahela. Rahela wanted to see her mother before they left, and Pozder bribed a guard at the camp so that Rahela could see her mother. The mother thanked Pozder for rescuing her daughter. That was the last time that Rahela saw her mother, who perished. Thereafter, Pozder saw to all of Rahela’s needs. Pozder’s care for Rahela drew Altarac closer to him and after the war they married and raised Rahela (later Vucijak) together. On March 6, 1996, Yad Vashem recognized Salih Pozder as Righteous Among the Nations.

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Sarajevo 1930’s, Bosna-Hercegovina

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Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Bosnia y Herzegovina - Mostar by eduiturri on Flickr.

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Some photos from Travnik, a pretty town in the geographical center of Bosnia.

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Safvet-beg Bašagić a writer from Bosnia, wrote a poem called “Šta je Bošnjak?” which means “What is a Bosniak?” The first text in the picture is written in Bosančica.

Šta je Bošnjak? Jedna mala grana velikoga stabla Slavijana, kojoj ime u pročelju piše povjesnicu junačkih mejdana! Šta je Bošnjak? Jedno ime slavno, koje svijet poznaje odavno, koje i Beč i Budim protrese, I Carigrad i Kosovo ravno!

Šta je Bošnjak? To pleme viteško, koga vila prostiraše krila, s Durmitora do Karpatskih gora sa Balkana do sinjega mora!

Šta je Bošnjak? Jedan narod mali, koji između dva svijeta stajaše, koji sile evropskije‘ silah I križarske vojne razbijaše!

Šta je Bošnjak? Kumče Davorova, čedo slavne - al‘ krvave sreće, deset puta ne jednom, umrijeće, Al‘ Bošnjaštva odreći se neće!

I will only translate the last part:

"What is a Bosniak? Godson Davor, son of the famous - but bloody luck ten times not once, they will die but their Bosniakness they will never forsake”

The reason I translated the last part is because Croats claim Safvet was a Croat - he certainly didn’t identify as such - and he wasn’t either. Others claimed Bosniaks were Serbs, Croats or Turks… None of it is true. Fra Antun Knežević has said: “But we will always remain Bosniaks just like our forefathers.”