Alija Izetbegović
| Alija Izetbegović | |
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| President of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
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In office 7 April 1992 – 14 March 1996 |
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| Prime Minister |
Jure Pelivan Mile Akmadžić Haris Silajdžić Hasan Muratović |
| Preceded by | Himself (as Chairman of the Presidency of the SR Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
| Succeeded by | Himself (as Chairman of the Presidency of the Tripartite presidency) |
| Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
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In office 14 February 2000 – 14 October 2000 |
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| Preceded by | Ante Jelavić |
| Succeeded by | Živko Radišić |
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In office 14 March 1996 – 13 October 1998 |
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| Preceded by | Himself (as Chairman of the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
| Succeeded by | Živko Radišić |
| 1st Bosniak Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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In office 14 March 1996 – 15 October 2000 |
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| Succeeded by | Halid Genjac |
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8 August 1925 Bosanski Šamac, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
| Died | 19 October 2003 (aged 78) Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Nationality | Bosniak |
| Political party | SDA |
| Spouse(s) | Halida Repovac (m. 1949–2003) |
| Profession | Politician, activist, lawyer, author, and philosopher |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
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Alija Izetbegović (Bosnian pronunciation: [ǎlija ǐzedbegoʋit͡ɕ]; 8 August 1925 – 19 October 2003) was a Bosnian politician, activist, lawyer, author, and philosopher who in 1992 became the first President of the newly-independent Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He served in this role until 1996, when he became a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving until 2000. He was also the author of several books, most notably Islam Between East and West and the Islamic Declaration.
Alija Izetbegović was born on 8 August 1925 in the northern Bosnian town of Bosanski Šamac. He was the third of five children—two sons and three daughters—born to Mustafa and Hiba Izetbegović. His was a distinguished but impoverished family descended from a former family of Izet-bey Jahić from Belgrade who moved to the Bosnia Vilayet in 1861, following the withdrawal of the last Ottoman troops from Serbia. The Jahić family lived in Belgrade for hundreds of years. While serving as a soldier in Üsküdar, Izetbegović's grandfather Alija married a Turkish woman named Sıdıka Hanım. The couple eventually moved to Bosanski Šamac and had five children. Izetbegović's grandfather later became the town's mayor, and reportedly saved forty Serbs from execution at the hands of Austro-Hungarian authorities following Gavrilo Princip's assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in June 1914.
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