The Legacy Events Index

Conflicts in the Balkans

The Wars of Yugoslav succession were a series of armed conflicts within the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) during the 1990s. The first war occurred in Slovenia and lasted ten days in June and July, 1991, producing few casualties. The second war was fought in Croatia from July to December,1991 and in the summer of 1995. The third war took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995. The second and third wars resulted in hundreds of thousands of mostly civilian casualties, massive property damage, and more than 2.5 million refugees. The fourth war, sometimes known as the Kosovo war, lasted from March to June, 1999. It was an air war conducted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), a remnant Yugoslavia consisting only of Serbia and Montenegro.

Most of the war refugees were victims of ethnic cleansing, the internationally condemned practice of driving out members of other nationalities from territories that had been part of the SFRY. The goal of ethnic cleansing was to create ethnically "pure" nation-states, or independent countries consisting of just one nationality. The wars in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina were complicated conflicts that combined elements of both civil and international wars. NATO described the Kosovo war as a "humanitarian" conflict waged to protect the ethnic Albanian majority in the Serbian province of Kosovo. Click here for more information from Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2001.

Related Visual Art

Drawings (Number 00, 01, 02, and 03), Amer Bakšić, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Drawings (Number 04, 05, 06, and 07), Amer Bakšić, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Drawings (Number 08, 09, and 10), Amer Bakšić, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Faces, Amer Bakšić, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Untitled (Number 01, 02, 03, and 04), Amer Bakšić, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Untitled (Number 05, 06, 07, and 08), Amer Bakšić, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Untitled (Number 09, 10, 11, and 12), Amer Bakšić, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Grammar school (Greetings from Mostar Series, No. 19), Halil Tikvesa, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Hotel Ruza (Greetings from Mostar Series, No. 8), Halil Tikvesa, Bosnia and Herzogovina
House on Cernica (Greetings from Mostar Series, No. 17), Halil Tikvesa, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Kujundziluk II (Greetings from Mostar Series, No. 20), Halil Tikvesa, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Music school on Musala (Greetings from Mostar Series, No. 15), Halil Tikvesa, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Panorama of Mostar III (Greetings from Mostar Series, No. 22), Halil Tikvesa, Bosnia and Herzogovina
The Old Bridge (Greetings from Mostar Series, No. 1), Halil Tikvesa, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Untitled, Halil Tikvesa, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Untitled, Halil Tikvesa, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Ciglane (Sarajevo Series), Dejan Vekic, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Dzidzi (Sarajevo Series), Dejan Vekic, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Holiday (Sarajevo Series), Dejan Vekic, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Mdvor (Sarajevo Series), Dejan Vekic, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Most (Sarajevo Series), Dejan Vekic, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Radic (Sarajevo Series), Dejan Vekic, Bosnia and Herzogovina
Vperic (Sarajevo series), Dejan Vekic, Bosnia and Herzogovina

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