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National anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| Also known as | "Intermeco" (English: 'Intermezzo') |
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| Music | Dušan Šestić, 1998 |
| Adopted | 25 June 1999 (de facto) 2001 (de jure)[1] |
| Preceded by | "Jedna si jedina" |
| Audio sample | |
U.S. Navy Band instrumental rendition in A-flat major | |
The National Anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina was composed in 1998 by Dušan Šestić and was adopted provisionally in 1999, before being made official in 2001. It has no official lyrics, though unofficial lyrics have been written for it.[1][2][3][4]
Following the Dayton Agreement that ended the Bosnian War in the mid-1990s, Bosnian state symbols were mandated to be inclusive of the country's main ethnic groups and not make any overt references to a specific one. The Bosnian national anthem that was in use at the time was considered to be insufficiently inclusive towards all of the country's ethnic groups and thus the United Nations, which oversaw the country as part of the Dayton Agreement, decided to replace it with an instrumental one, which was considered by it to be more inclusive. In the two decades since its inception, various attempts have been made to adopt lyrics for it, most recently in 2018, but due to political disagreements, none have been successful as yet.[5]
The Bosnian and Herzegovinian anthem is one of very few national anthems to be protected under copyright.[citation needed] The copyright to the anthem is owned by the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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