sarajevo

     

Sarajevo is the capital city an largest urban center of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with an estimated total population of 419,030 people in the Sarajevo Canton as of June 2007. It is also the capital of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity, and the de jure capital of the Republika Srpska entity, as well as the center of the Sarajevo Canton. Sarajevo is located in the Sarajevo valley of Bosnia proper, surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated around the Miljacka river. The city is famous for its traditional religious diversity, with adherents of Islam, Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Judaism peacefully coexisting there for centuries.

Trivia about sarajevo

  • The name of this capital of Bosnia & Herzegovina is from the Turkish for "palace"
  • On August 15, 1996 this Bosnian capital's airport opened for commercial flights after a 4-year closure
  • The book "Besieged" is subtitled "...From Jericho to" this city besieged by the Serbs in the 1990s
  • A 1993 award cited John F. Burns' "courageous", coverage of the destruction of" this Bosnian capital
  • Drive down Obala Vojvode Stepe in this city & relive the street's most famous moment of June 28, 1914
  • Gavrilo Princip sparked WWI when he killed Archduke Francis Ferdinand in this city in 1914
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands next to a bullet-riddled pickup in teh Newseum in Washington, D.C.) Time magazine journalists dubbed this truck "the metal magnet" after it kept them safe in this Winter Olympic city that was besieged in the 1990s
  • To visit the National Museum in Bosnia, head to this capital
  • The diary begun in 1991 by 10-year-old Zlata Filipovic of this war-torn city became a bestseller
  • In 1996, for the first time since 1992, this city & 5 suburbs were united under the Bosnian government
  • It's the capital of Bosnia & Herzegovina
  • 1984 winter games(a war zone in the 1990s)
  • On June 28, 1914 Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in this city, later the host of the 1984 Winter Olympics
  • The European capital city where he fell to his assassin's bullets
  • Vucko the wolf won a poll of Yugoslav newspaper readers to decide the mascot of the Olympics held here
  • On June 28, 1914 the Kaiser's yacht race was interrupted by news from this Balkan city

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