Republika Srbska

Ok, as you can see, they're a little short on vowels here, but Srbska really is the correct spelling. They're convinced around here that R is a vowel.

As Amey has explained (or will depdending on which of us hits POST first) Republika Srbska is the part of Bosnia i Hercegonvina that is governed by political forces which are generally aligned with Serbia. It's all part of the Dayton Accord, a political patchwork stitched together with the help of our former President, who apparently thought that any peace was better than war.

The Serbs and the Bosnians and the Croats all speak the same language, but the Serbs write it with the Cyrillic alphabet, so it's all goofed up. Fortunately some of the signs, like this one, provide a little help for us ignorant foreigners. Note the reference to Tito spray painted here.