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Fikret Abdić

1939 - Today

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Fikret Abdić (born 29 September 1939), also known as Babo, is a Bosnian politician and businessman who first rose to prominence in the 1980s for his role in turning the Velika Kladuša-based agriculture company Agrokomerc into one of the biggest conglomerates in SFR Yugoslavia. He won the popular vote in the Bosnian presidential elections of 1990.In the early 1990s, during the Bosnian War, Abdić declared his opposition to the official Bosnian government, and established the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia, a small and short-lived province in the northwestern corner of Bosnia and Herzegovina composed of the town of Velika Kladuša and nearby villages. The mini-state existed between 1993 and 1995 and was allied with the Army of Republika Srpska. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fikret Abdić has received more than 300,718 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Fikret Abdić is the 3,773rd most popular politician (up from 4,230th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (up from 27th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Politician.

Fikret Abdić is most famous for being the founder of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was born in 1945 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Fikret Abdić ranks 3,773 out of 15,577Before him are Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, Francesco Foscari, Dion of Syracuse, Emperor Zhang of Han, Emperor Wu of Liang, and Katsura Tarō. After him are Al-Adid, Pentawer, Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, Martin Schulz, Dalia Grybauskaitė, and Empress Jitō.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Fikret Abdić ranks 60Before him are Volker Schlöndorff, Harry Kroto, Silvana Armenulić, Carlo Ginzburg, João Bernardo Vieira, and Barry Seal. After him are Carolina Herrera, Beate Klarsfeld, Princess Irene of the Netherlands, Milva, Kathryn Joosten, and Susumu Tonegawa.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fikret Abdić ranks 22 out of 320Before him are Slobodan Praljak (1945), Miroslav Blažević (1935), Zoran Đinđić (1952), Silvana Armenulić (1939), Ivica Osim (1941), and Meša Selimović (1910). After him are Vojislav Šešelj (1954), Vukašin of Serbia (1320), Haris Silajdžić (1945), Vjekoslav Luburić (1914), Ban Kulin (1163), and Boris Tadić (1958).

Among POLITICIANS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among politicians born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fikret Abdić ranks 10Before him are Valerius Severus (300), Tvrtko I of Bosnia (1338), Lala Mustafa Pasha (1500), Prince Marko (1335), Biljana Plavšić (1930), and Zoran Đinđić (1952). After him are Vojislav Šešelj (1954), Vukašin of Serbia (1320), Haris Silajdžić (1945), Ban Kulin (1163), Boris Tadić (1958), and Ante Marković (1924).