This is a list of folk songs and traditional sevdalinka songs which originated in Bosnia and Herzegovina but are also popular in Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.
Emina was originally a poem written by Bosnian Serb poet Aleksa à  antiÃÂ, being first published in 1902. It became a popular sevdalinka covered by many artists from the former Yugoslav republics over the course of the 20th century. The subject of the song is à  antiÃÂ's teenage neighbor, a Bosniak girl named Emina SefiÃÂ. It is one of the most well-known sevdalinka songs of all time.
Many artists have covered the song, but the version by fellow Mostar native, Bosnian singer Himzo Polovina, remains the most popular. Upon hearing of the death of Emina SefiÃÂ, Polovina went to poet Sevda Katica's home in the Mostar neighborhood of Donja Mahala. He found her in the yard of the family home, informed her of Emina's death and she shuddered with grief and spoke the verses:
Polovina recorded the song and added Sevda's new verses.
A very old Bosnian historical poem about Muhamed (Mujo) IsabegoviÃÂ, son of Isa-beg IshakoviÃÂ.
Very old Bosnian traditional folk ballad.
A Bosnian traditional folk song. Although the song is much older, the first known recording was in 1935 in Gacko to the voice of a Bosniak peasant singer in her 60s named Halima Hrvo (née ÃÂemo) from the village of Tjentià ¡te near FoÃÂa.
Kraj tanana à ¡adrvana was translated into Bosnian in 1923 by Aleksa à  antiàfrom a poem called (The Azra) by the German poet Heinrich Heine.
Moj dilbere has been in Bosnia since Ottoman times. The exact authors are unknown and Moj dilbere is considered to be a traditional song.
Sejdefu majka buÃÂaà ¡e is a folk song that is believed to have originated in Sarajevo centuries ago, while the region of Bosnia was a part of the Ottoman Empire. The exact author is unknown.
Over the centuries, the song spread amongst the Bosniak populations in Podgorica and the Sandà ¾ak regions of Montenegro and Serbia, respectively.