Mostar Turist Quality Project

Where

Bosnia Herzegovina and Mostar

Places where everything flows

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Bosnia Herzegovina reveals its true destiny in its own name. The name “Bosnia” in fact is derived from the river Bosna, which has its origins near the capital, Sarajevo. And “Bosna”, in Illyrian “boghi-na”, means “flowing”. Instead, Herzegovina means “Dukedom”, which this area of the Balkans actually became from 1448. Thus, we could literally translate Bosnia ...

Herzegovina

Herzegovina. Is thus a region of Bosnia Herzegovina and it is the only one, situated on the south-east extremity of the country, to overlook the Adriatic Sea. Apart from the already mentioned Mostar, other important towns of Herzegovina are Trebinje, Konjic and Čapljina. Herzegovina is the most hilly part of the Bosnian Federation with an extensive karst area, excluding the part around the Neretva River.

Mostar today

Mostar today. The name inspired by the “Flowing Dukedom” tells, therefore, the story of Bosnia Herzegovina and, similarly, Mostar (in the local language Mostar/ Мостар) retells its own destiny via its own name. Standing at the centre of the Herzegovina-Neretva canton of the Bosnian-Croatian Federation, its name is derived from that of its antique ...