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  1. Constituent republic of Yugoslavia. area
  2. 51,100 sq km/19,725 sq mi capital Sarajevo
  3. features barren, mountainous country
  4. population (1986) 4,360,000; including 30%
  5. Serbs, 17% Croats language Serbian variant of
  6. Serbo-Croat religion Sunni Muslim, Serbian
  7. Orthodox, Roman Catholic history once the
  8. Roman province of Illyria, it enjoyed brief
  9. periods of independence in medieval times,
  10. then was ruled by the Ottoman Empire
  11. 1463-1878 and Austria 1878-1918, when it was
  12. incorporated in the future Yugoslavia.
  13.