Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina in Bosnian) is one of the nations that became independent following the breakup of the Yugoslav federation in 1991. Unfortunately it was a difficult birth leading to a bitter war between the ethnic groups inhabiting the country. The war was finally ended by the Dayton Agreement of December 1995 although tensions remain. The country is mostly mountainous and remote from the sea. Herzegovina, the southern region of the country, has a very short coastline on Mali Ston Bay, an arm of the Adriatic Sea. The resort town of Neum is the nation's only port. Currently only small craft use the port, but there are plans to develop a commercial port of entry. Neum has been part of Bosnia and Hercegovina since 1699, when the city-state of Ragusa, now Dubrovnik, ceded the town to the Ottoman Empire. Bosnia and Herzegovina has no beacons large enough to be called lighthouses but this page describes three smaller beacons within the country. Presumably the lights are maintained by the port authority in Neum. As in Croatian, the Bosnian word for a lighthouse is svjetionik. The word rt is a cape or promontory, ostrvo is an island, hrid (plural hridi) is a rock, and luka is a port or harbor. ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. PS numbers are from the Yugoslavian light list Popis Svjetala i Signala za Maglu now maintained by Croatia. Admiralty numbers are from volume E of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA List numbers are from Publication 113.
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Posted December 4, 2014. Checked and revised December 5, 2023. Lighthouses: 0. Site copyright 2023 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.