The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian: Republika Bosna i Hercegovina, RBiH, Cyrillic script: Република Босна и Херцеговина, РБиХ) is the direct main predecessor to the modern-day state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. While the succession was gradual, it was in existence from its declaration of independence from the SFR Yugoslavia in 1992 up to the full implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords in 1997. Most of this period is taken-up by the Bosnian War, in which each of the two other main ethnicities of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats) established their own entities (Republic of Srpska and CR Herzeg-Bosnia respectively), which left the republic representative primarily of its Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) population and fighting for its very survival. By the Washington Agreement of 1994, however, Bosniaks were joined by ethnic Bosnian Croats in support for the Republic by the formation of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a sub-state joint entity. In 1995, the Dayton Peace Accords joined the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the Serb entity, the Republic of Srpska into the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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