Greater Bosnia

The term Greater Bosnia designates a concept that defines the borders of the Bosnian state as those that include areas inhabited with significant ethnic Bosniak and Slavic Muslim population prior to the Treaty of Berlin of 1878 with areas which provided wide access to the sea.
Composition of Greater Bosnia
Based on this concept, a Greater Bosnian state would include these 3 units:
* Bosnia and Herzegovina, an internationally recognized state within its borders;
* Eastern Bosnia, which would include territories which had ethnic Bosniak majority before 1867, when Bosniaks were a majority in the towns of present-day Serbia proper, such as Smederevo, UÅ¾ice, Šabac, etc.;
* Zeta-Sanjak, which would include territories of:
** Sanjak of Novi Pazar, which remained under Bosnia Province, Ottoman Empire until 1878, with relative Bosniak majority up to this day;
** Parts of Metohija, where Bosniaks have formed a significant chunk of the population, such as , Prizren, Gora, etc.;
** Zeta, which includes a major part of Montenegro proper, where Bosniaks lived as a minority, but significant population until 1878 in practically all major towns (Podgorica, , Kolasin, Bar, etc.);
** Dubrovnik and the Bay of Kotor, whereas parts of the Bay of Kotor (Sutorina) remained under Federal People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina until 1947, while Dubrovnik and its surroundings would be used as a link between the port of Neum and the ports on the coast of Zeta.

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