Bosket

[Fr. bosquet.] See BOSQUET. Bos'koi. [Gr., the grazers.] ( Eccl. Hist.) The name given to a cla of ascetic monks who lived in Syria and Me so pot am i a, and are said to have subsisted solely upon roots and herbs. They did not inhabit any house, and profe ed to spend their time in the worship of God, in prayers and hymns. Bosky, a. Woody; covered with boscage; as, the bosky glade. "And with end of thy blue bow dost crown My bosky acres, and my unshrubb'd down." - Shaks . Bos'na-Seraï, or SERAJEVO, (anc. Tiberiopolis ,) a city of Austria-Hungary, cap. province Bosnia, on the N. bank of the Migliazza, 122 m. S.W. of Belgrade, and 575 m. N.W. of Constantinople; Lat. 43° 54′ N.; Lon. 18° 26′ E. The town is well-built, and has an agreeable appearance, owing to the number of minarets, towers, and gardens which it encloses. It contains a seraï, or palace, built by Mahomet II., to which the city owes its name, about 100 mosques, some of which are elegant structures; several Greek and Roman Catholic churches, best soil in the valleys is devoted to pasture, and Bosnia is generally better adapted for the feeding of cattle than for agriculture. The Bosniaks, however, seem to prefer the chase to more settled pastoral occupations; and as the woods abound with wild animals, as deer, wild boars, bears, wolves, and foxes, they have every facility for carrying it on. It is only in the valleys that any cultivation is carried on. Wheat, barley, maize, and legumes, are grown in sufficient quantity for home consumption, and flax and tobacco near Zvornik and Novibazai. A great variety of fruit is met with. A liqueur is made from plums, and a sweet drink called pekmes from pears. The olive and vine are both cultivated. The wines are strong and fiery. B. has a breed of strong horses, but it is much neglected, except by the Turks. The manufactures of Bosnia are limited to iron articles of common use, leather, coarse woollen stuffs, saltpetre at Jaieza, cannon-balls at Kamengrad, gun-powder, firearms, and other weapons. The principal exports are leather, hides, wool, goat's-hair, honey, cattle, dried fish, timber, and mineral waters; the chief imports, linen, woollens, silks, lace, gla , and metallic wares, paper, colonial produce, salt, oil, dried fruits, and silver coin from Dalmatia. The transit-trade in Levant produce is not inconsiderable; the chief seats of commerce are the towns of Bosna-Seraï, Nov i bazar, Zvornik, Bagna, Souka, Mostar, and Gradiska. The roads are generally very bad, and impracticable for wheel carriages, The total government revenue derived from this province under the Turks was about $5,000,000 a year, B. was formerly under the govt. of a pasha, and divided into 6 sanjiaks , and again into 48 subdivisions, subordinate to a military governor, and a cadi , or judicial officer. Bosna-Seraï was the capital, but Travonik the residence of the Pasha. The Bosniaks are of Slavonic origin, though mostly Mohammedans. They differ from the Turks in many usages, and are not addicted to polygamy.-B. was anciently included in Lower Pannonia. In the Middle Ages, it first belonged to the E. Empire, but became a separate kingdom, dependent upon Hungary. The Turks conquered it in 1480, after a war of seventeen years; and in 1522 Solyman "the Magnificent" annexed it to the Turkish domain. When, after three centuries, Bosnia, Croatia, and Herzegovina were taken from Turkey by the Treaty of Berlin ( q . v.), they had an area of over 24,000 sq. m., and a population of above 1,000,000.