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Stari Grad (Serbian Cyrillic: Стари Град, pronounced [stâːriː grâːd]; lit. "Old Town") is a municipality of the city of Sarajevo , Bosnia and Herzegovina . It is the oldest and most historically significant part of Sarajevo.
The part of the Bistrik, large neighborhood in the Stari Grad municipality, which spread on the left bank of the Miljacka river on the slopes of Trebević mountain, where the Franciscan friary and the votive church of St. Anthony of Padua are located, used to be called Latinluk (transl. Latin quarter), implying a presence of the Roman Catholic faithful in that part of the Bistrik neighborhood.
Baščaršija (Cyrillic: Башчаршија; pronounced [baʃ.tʃǎr.ʃi.ja]) is Sarajevo's old bazaar and the historical and cultural center of the city. Baščaršija was built in the 15th century when Isa-Beg Ishaković founded the city. [1] Baščaršija is located on the north bank of the river Miljacka, in the municipality of Stari Grad.
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Trg oslobođenja - Alija Izetbegović is a square in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.It lies between the municipalities Stari Grad and Centar.It links the main pedestrian thoroughfare of the Sarajevo old town, Ferhadija street, with Zelenih Beretki street, with the Dom Armije (1881).
Sarajevo Winter Festival begins. 1991 - Population: 361,735; canton 527,049. 1992 5 April: Siege of Sarajevo begins. 2–3 May: 1992 Yugoslav People's Army column incident in Sarajevo. 17 May: Oriental Institute in Sarajevo destroyed. [15] Sarajevo War Theatre opens. BH Dani magazine begins publication. 1995 Canton of Sarajevo established per ...
The "Imperial Road" (Carska Džada), road from Sarajevo via Višegrad to Istanbul, led over Vratnik for centuries. [3] Up until the brief but devastating terror-raid of Prince Eugene of Savoy in 1697, when the city was sacked and numerous buildings burnt and rest of it severely damaged, Sarajevo was an open city.
The communists invested heavily in Sarajevo, building many new residential blocks in Novi Grad Municipality and Novo Sarajevo Municipality, while simultaneously developing the city's industry and transforming Sarajevo once again into one of the Balkans' chief cities. From a post-war population of 115,000, by the fall of Yugoslavia Sarajevo had ...