Dayton

(proper noun)

The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Agreement, Dayton Accords, Paris Protocol or Dayton-Paris Agreement, is the peace agreement reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio in November 1995, and formally signed in Paris on 14 December 1995. These accords put an end to the three and a half year long war in Bosnia, one of the armed conflicts in the former Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia.

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Examples of Dayton in the following topics:

  • The Balkans

    • In November 1995, Clinton hosted peace talks between the warring parties in Dayton, Ohio.
    • The parties reached a peace agreement known as the Dayton Accords, leaving Bosnia as a single state made up of two separate entities with a central government.

  • The Scopes Trial

    • Substituting for the regular biology teacher at the high school in Dayton, Tennessee, Scopes said he was unsure whether he had actually taught evolution.
    • Reporters flocked to the small town of Dayton to cover the famed attorneys representing each side.

  • Mining on the Comstock Lode

    • After arriving much too early to cross the Sierra, they camped on the Carson river in the vicinity of Dayton to wait for the mountain snow to melt.

  • Clinton and Foreign Policy

    • That year, the Dayton Accords peace settlement was signed in Dayton, Ohio.