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Facts about Byzantine Empire: Bosnia and Herzegovina, as discussed in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Ancient and medieval periods:

...of Dalmatia. During the 4th and 5th centuries ad, Roman armies suffered heavy defeats in this region at the hands of invading Goths. When the Goths were eventually driven out of the Balkans by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I in the early 6th century, the Bosnian territory became, notionally at least, part of the Byzantine Empire.
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