Bosnia and Herzegovina vs San Marino

Bosnia and Herzegovina

San Marino

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• 1. The anthem is one of only a handful in the world that has no official lyrics; the wordlessness is itself a deliberate political compromise among Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs.
• 2. It came into force on 25 June 1999, on an interim basis, by decision of High Representative Carlos Westendorp under his Bonn powers: the House of Representatives had passed the law, but the House of Peoples could not agree on its text.
• 3. The previous anthem, "Jedna si jedina," was arranged by Dino Merlin from the Bosnian folk song "S one strane Plive"; many Bosniaks still sing it informally.
• 4. Proposed lyrics beginning "Ti si svjetlost duše," written by composer Dušan Šestić with Benjamin Isović, were accepted by a parliamentary commission in 2009 but have never been approved by parliament.

San Marino

• 1. The melody comes from a tenth-century chorale that Federico Consolo found in a monastic breviary in Florence's Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana.
• 2. For 131 years the anthem had no title of its own. It was known simply as the Inno Nazionale della Repubblica, the National Anthem of the Republic, until Constitutional Law no. 2 of 26 September 2025 titled it "Terra di Libertà".
• 3. That law placed the anthem alongside the flag and the coat of arms in article 2-bis of the 1974 Declaration of the Rights of Citizens, but expressly left its text to a separate ordinary law.
• 4. The words taught in San Marino's schools were not written for the anthem. They adapt the closing sentence of the speech Giosuè Carducci, later Italy's first Nobel laureate in literature, gave at the inauguration of the Palazzo Pubblico on 30 September 1894, the day the anthem was first played. They have never been adopted, and the bill debated in 2026 proposes a revised version that drops the reference to the glory of Italy.