![]() ![]() Bosnia-Hercegovina, as the seat of the Yugoslav Partisan movement and the second-largest contributor of Partisan manpower among the Yugoslav lands, finally received a status equal to that of the other members of the embryonic Yugoslav federation. The Bosnian and Yugoslav state-building impulses therefore converged. ![]() Meanwhile, the capitulation of Italy and the increasingly close proximity of Western Allied troops prompted Tito to accelerate the founding of a new Yugoslav state. The great influx of Muslims and, to a lesser extent, Croats into the Bosnian Partisans in this period added a new dynamic to the process: the confidence of the Bosnian NOP leadership was tremendously boosted, but it also had to satisfy the national aspirations of its new constituents. At the ground level, the pace of Communist state-building proceeded according to the strength of the Partisan movement. The autumn of 1943 and the capitulation of Italy saw a great growth in Partisan power.
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