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Sarajevo (/ ˌ s ær ə ˈ j eɪ v oʊ / SARR-ə-YAY-voh) [5] is the capital [6] and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. [7] [4] The Sarajevo metropolitan area including Sarajevo Canton, East Sarajevo and nearby municipalities is home to 555,210 inhabitants.
It is fairly certain that they settled in the Sarajevo valley, replacing the Illyrians. Katera, one of the two Bosnian towns mentioned as a part of Serbia by Constantine Porphyrogenitus in De Administrando Imperio, was southeast of Sarajevo. By the time of the Ottoman occupation in the 15th century, there was little settlement in the region.
Bosnia and Herzegovina [a] (Serbo-Croatian: Bosna i Hercegovina, Босна и Херцеговина), [b] [c] sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe, situated on the Balkan Peninsula.
The Bosnian-Serbian war of 1349 [a] –1351 [b] was fought between the Banate of Bosnia (Kingdom of Hungary) and the Serbian Empire, and resulted in a Bosnian victory. [6]: 138–140 [7] The First Serbian Uprising of 1806–1813 was fought between Bosnia Eyalet (Ottoman Empire) and Revolutionary Serbia [c] and resulted in an Ottoman victory.
Serbia, [c] officially the Republic of Serbia, [d] is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, [9] [10] located in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain. It borders Hungary to the north, Romania to the northeast, Bulgaria to the southeast, North Macedonia to the south, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the west ...
In 1993, the Association of Serbian Writers was founded in Jahorina, under the chairmanship of professor and politician Nikola Koljevic. Since 2003, the president of the association has been Zoran Kostic, who moved its headquarters from Serbian Sarajevo to Banja Luka. The president of the Sarajevo-Romanija-Drina branch is Nedeljko Zelenović.
A World War II drama that critics say glorifies Serbian nationalist groups has sparked outrage at the Sarajevo Film Festival, with organizers under fire for allowing excerpts of the forthcoming ...
The University of Sarajevo split into two, with the Bosniak division located in Western Sarajevo, and the Serbian one renamed University of East Sarajevo, with Serbian as its official language. The University of Banja Luka became part of Republika Srpska. Municipalities with Serb majority or significant minority, schools with Serbian language ...