The central part of Bosnia was inhabited by
Neolithic farmers that belonged to the
Kakanj culture, and later replaced by another neolithic culture called the
Butmir culture. The first
Indo-Europeans are thought to be members of
eneolithic Vučedol culture. In the
Bronze Age the area is thought to have been inhabited by
Iron Age Central Bosnian cultural group and
Glasinac culture. Later on the Illyrian tribe of the
Daesitiates would become dominant in these area. The historical records of the region are scarce until its first recorded standalone (domestic) ruler and
viceroy of Bosnian state,
Ban Borić, was appointed in 1154.
De Administrando Imperio describes a small
Serbian župa of
Bosona () that was located around the river
Bosna in the modern-day fields of
Sarajevo and of
Visoko. At the end of the 14th century, under
Tvrtko I of Bosnia, the Bosnian kingdom included most of the territory of today's Bosnia and of what would later become known as Herzegovina. The kingdom lost its independence to the
Ottoman Empire in 1463. The region of Bosnia's westernmost city at the time of the conquest was
Jajce. The Ottoman Empire initially expanded into Bosnia and Herzegovina through a territory called the
Bosansko Krajište. It was transformed into the
Sanjak of Bosnia and the
Sanjak of Herzegovina after 1462/1463. The first Ottoman administration called
Eyalet of Bosnia was finally formed in 1527, after long armed resistance to the north and to the west by Counts Franjo and
Ivaniš Berislavić of the noble house of
Berislavići Grabarski. Eventually, following the
Great Turkish War, in the 18th century the Eyalet came to encompass the area largely matching that of today's Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1833, the
Eyalet of Herzegovina was temporarily split off under
Ali-paša Rizvanbegović. The area acquired the name of "Bosnia and Herzegovina" in 1853 as a result of a twist in political events following his death. After the 1864 administrative reform, the province was named
Vilayet of Bosnia.
Austria-Hungary occupied the whole vilayet in 1878. It remained formally part of the Ottoman Empire under the title of
Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina until 1908, when Austria-Hungary provoked the
Bosnian crisis by formally annexing the province. Since 1918, Bosnia was part of
Yugoslavia which was initially the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia ruled by a Serbian Dynasty. It was occupied during the second world war by the
Axis powers before being librated in 1943 by the resistance leader and communist party member
Josip Broz Tito. Bosnia remained part of the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until it's break-away from the inter-ethnic
Yugoslav wars (1992-2001) and particularly the
Bosnian War (1992-1995) which included the
Bosnian Genocide with wide-spread ethnic cleansing of the
Bosniak (Bosnian muslims) and
Bosnian Croats. This led to the declaration of independence of
Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992). ==Regional identity==