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 became official on 25 June 1999 by direct order of High Representative Carlos Westendorp under his Bonn powers, after the Parliamentary Assembly could not pass the law itself.
• 3. The previous anthem, "Jedna si jedina," was arranged by Dino Merlin from the Bosnian folk song "S one strane Plive"; Bosniaks still sing it informally.
• 4. Lyrics titled "Ti si svjetlo duse," written by composer Dusan Sestic with Benjamin Isovic, were approved by a parliamentary commission in 2009 but have never been formally adopted.

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, giving it one of the oldest musical lineages of any anthem still in use.
• 2. For 131 years the anthem had no name at all. It was known simply as 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. Giosuè Carducci, Italy's first Nobel laureate in literature, wrote an ode for the anthem that San Marino schools still teach. It has never been adopted, and the bill debated in 2026 proposes a revised version that drops his closing reference to the glory of Italy.