Bosnia-Herzegovina

During the four centuries of Turkish occupation most of the Slavs in what is now Bosnia-Herzegovina embraced the Muslim faith. Their descendants account for about a third of the present population, the remainder being mainly Serbs and Croats.

The republic boasts modern, large-scale agriculture with maize as the chief cereal, and intensive rearing of cattle, pigs, and sheep. Orchards are numerous with plums as the major fruit crop.