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Bosnia

named for the River Bosna, which is perhaps from an Indo-European root *bhog- "current." As a name or adjective for someone there, Bosniac (1756, from Russian Bosnyak) is older in English than Bosnian (1788).

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Definitions of Bosnia from WordNet

Bosnia (n.)
the northern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina;
Bosnia (n.)
a mountainous republic of south-central Europe; formerly part of the Ottoman Empire and then a part of Yugoslavia; voted for independence in 1992 but the mostly Serbian army of Yugoslavia refused to accept the vote and began ethnic cleansing in order to rid Bosnia of its Croats and Muslims;
Synonyms: Bosnia and Herzegovina / Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina / Bosna i Hercegovina / Bosnia-Herzegovina
From wordnet.princeton.edu