Statehood Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Statehood Day (Bosnian: Dan državnosti / Дан државности) is a holiday celebrated in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina[1] that occurs every year on 25 November. Bosnia and Herzegovina choose to commemorate the day in 1943 on which the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ZAVNOBiH) made Resolution of ZAVNOBiH declaring B&H peoples' will for Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia to be their country.[2][3][4]

Statehood Day
Rada Vranješević speaking at the first ZAVNOBiH session
Official name	Dan državnosti / Дан државности
Observed by	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Significance	commemorate the day in 1943 on which the ZAVNOBiH made Resolution of ZAVNOBiH declaring BiH peoples' will for BiH to be their country
Date	25 November
Next time	25 November 2022 (2022-11-25)
Frequency	annual

The Law on the Proclamation of 25 November as the Statehood Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of R B&H, No. 9/95) stipulates that on 25 November is the Statehood Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Statehood Day should not to be confused with Independence Day, which is held each year on 1 March in honor of the 1992 referendum that indicated that a majority of Bosniaks and Croats were in favor of becoming a sovereign nation. The total turnout of voters was 63.73%, 99.7% of whom voted for independence while the majority of the Serb population boycotted the referendum. [5]