Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to Herzegovina.
  • noun A native of Herzegovina.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person from Herzegovina (southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
  • adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Herzegovina and its inhabitants

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Examples

  • Framing it are ragged beech and pine-covered peaks, which some locals have tagged the "Herzegovinian Himalaya."

    Richard Bangs: Bosnia & Herzegovina, That Unreal Place Richard Bangs 2010

  • ON Oct. 14, 1991, Radovan Karadzic spoke at a session of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Parliament, which had been debating a referendum on independence from the rump Yugoslavia.

    Matthew Yglesias » Karadzic’s Defense 2010

  • Framing it are ragged beech and pine-covered peaks, which some locals have tagged the "Herzegovinian Himalaya."

    Richard Bangs: Bosnia & Herzegovina, That Unreal Place Richard Bangs 2010

  • Bosnia and Herzegovinanoun: Bosnian (s), Herzegovinian (s) adjective: Bosnian, Herzegovinian

    Nationality 2008

  • Nationality: noun: Bosnian (s), Herzegovinian (s) adjective: Bosnian, Herzegovinian

    Bosnia and Herzegovina 2008

  • A Moslem woman walking black-faced in white robes among the terraces of a blossoming orchard, her arms full of irises, was the last we saw of the Herzegovinian plains; and our road took us into mountains at first so gruffly barren, so coarsely rocky, that they were almost squalid.

    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV 1969

  • She came in contact with Lyubibratitch, the Herzegovinian chief, and at once joined the forces in the field, attaching herself to a party of comitadji led by a French officer.

    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV 1969

  • International disputes: Ethnic Serbs have occupied UN protected areas in eastern Croatia and along the western Bosnia and Herzegovinian border

    The 1995 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • Nationality: noun: Bosnian (s), Herzegovinian (s) adjective: Bosnian, Herzegovinian

    The 1995 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • Nationality: noun: Bosnian (s), Herzegovinian (s) adjective: Bosnian, Herzegovinian

    The 2007 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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