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	History of Sarajevo - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		During the Middle Ages Sarajevo was part of the Bosnian province of Vrhbosna near the traditional center of the kingdom.
		Sarajevo as we know it today was founded by the Ottoman Empire in the 1450s upon conquering the region, with 1461 typically used as the city’s founding date.
		Sarajevo became known for its large marketplace and numerous mosques, which by the middle of the 16th century were over a hundred in number.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/History_of_Sarajevo (1313 words)

	Sarajevo Canton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sarajevo Canton is a canton of the Federation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		The economy of Sarajevo Canton is slowly growing better, although it has been severely weakened by the Siege of Sarajevo and is still drastically weaker than it used to be.
		According to government statistics from 2002, the overal population of Sarajevo Canton is 701,118.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sarajevo_Canton (830 words)

	tScholars.com \| History of Sarajevo in Yugoslavia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1941 the atrocities committed by the Ustase were strongly condemned by groups of Sarajevo's citizens.
		Following the liberation, Sarajevo was the capital of the republic of Bosnia within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
		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.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/History_of_Sarajevo_in_Yugoslavia (394 words)

	Sarajevo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sarajevo is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, located at 43°52'N and 18°25'E. According to a 1991 census, its population was 529,672; currently estimated at around 600,000.
		Sarajevo is part of Canton Sarajevo, one of the ten Cantons in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		Sarajevo is economically one of the strongest regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sarajevo (4053 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Sarajevo Canton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Sarajevo Canton is a canton of the Federation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		The history of Sarajevo Canton dates back to Neolithic times, when the Butmir culture made its mountains and hills their home.
		The economy of Sarajevo Canton is slowly growing better, although it has been severely weakened by the Siege of Sarajevo and is still drastically weaker than it used to be.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Sarajevo_Canton (940 words)

	Sarajevo Over the Centuries
		Sarajevo is also situated on the crossroads which runs along the valleys of the Bosna and Neretva rivers and connects northern Europe with the Mediterranean Sea and its traditions.
		The gradual development of human settlements in the area where Sarajevo is now located, is witnessed by the rich collections displayed in the national museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina (the Zemaljski Museum), one of the oldest scientific and cultural establishments in Sarajevo.
		The long history of the city does not record any episodes of political or religious persecutions against single groups; there are, on the contrary many examples of mutual solidarity, as for instance the story about the people of Sarajevo who went to free their imprisoned Jewish fellow-townsmen.
	www.sadik.net /bosnia/sarajevo_hist.htm (2540 words)

	History of Sarajevo: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sarajevo (cyrillic,) is the capital and largest city of bosnia and herzegovina, located at....
		Butmir is a neighborhood of ilida in the sarajevo canton of bosnia and herzegovina....
		In classical history, illyria or illyricum or illyrikon was a region of the western balkan peninsula inhabited by the tribes and clans of illyrians,...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/history_of_sarajevo.htm (3720 words)

	Sarajevo
		Sarajevo is economically one of the strongest regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		Sarajevo is also home to the Sarajevo Haggadah, one of the oldest surviving such texts, originating from the 14th century and brought by Jews fleeing the Spanish inquisition.
		As the center of Canton Sarajevo, the city is also the center of judicial procedures for the area, based on the post-transitional judicial system for the country as outlined by the High Representative and his plans for the “High Judicial and Prosecutorial Councils” of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2002.
	aboutsarajevo.blogger.ba (7098 words)

	Institute for History (Sarajevo) - Basic facts
		Zlatar Behija was engaged as the director of the Oriental Institute in Sarajevo on 31/01/1998.
		A Half Millennium of Sarajevo - scientific meeting, was held in Sarajevo from March 19 to 21, 1993 and was organised by the Institute of History and the Oriental Institute in Sarajevo.
		Associates of the Institute Tomislav Isek and Boris Nilevic are engaged as lecturers at the Faculty of Philosophy, History Department, in Tuzla, Senija Milicic at the Pedagogical Academy in Mostar and Vera Katz at Catholic School Centre in Sarajevo.
	www.iis.unsa.ba /institut/institut_o_institutu_eng.htm (3090 words)

	Sarajevo: A Crossroads in History
		The city of Sarajevo has been the site of three seemingly unrelated major events: World War I began there; the city was the host of the XXIII Winter Olympic Games; and today, it is a shattered center of ethnic conflict as Yugoslavia divides into separate states.
		This diary of a 13-year-old girl who lived in Sarajevo before she and her family were evacuated to France showed me an inside view of the siege and its effect on the children in Sarajevo.
		A recounting of the author’s days as a journalist in Sarajevo during the 1984 Olympics contrasted with the scene in Sarajevo today, this article pointed out to me the irony that both hosts of the 1984 Games (Los Angeles and Sarajevo) were in a state of war or riot when the article was written.
	www.stevesachs.com /papers/paper_sarajevo.html (4004 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sarajevo is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and one of the most important cities in the
		The so-called independent State of Croatia was founded and Sarajevo was the capital of the Vrhbosna district in that state.
		During the Austro-Hungarian period the feudal structure of Osmanli Sarajevo slowly became capitalist, foreigners from all parts of the Dual Monarchy moved into the town, and parallel with industrialization the strength of the workers also grew.
	www.slokar.com /index.php?id=32 (482 words)

	Bosnia and Herzegovina History
		Some finds near Sarajevo prove that the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina was populated during the Stone Age.
		The ancient settlement of Butmir, presently a suburb south of Sarajevo at the base of Igman Mountain, can alone testify to the craftsmanship achieved in that territory by neolithic man. This unique neolithic culture disappeared from Bosnia and Herzegovina without trace somewhere between the third and second millennia.
		Sarajevo is the fastest changing city in world, and it is a wonderful capital, one of the most interesting in Europe.
	www.world66.com /europe/bosniaandherzegovina/history (2963 words)

	History News Network
		History News Network Because the Past is the Present, and the Future too.
		Sarajevo was a sophisticated city at the heart of Europe - a multi-ethnic symbol of how people could and did live together in peace.
		Sarajevo a symbol of stability became Sarajevo a city under siege.
	hnn.us /blogs/entries/15007.html (315 words)

	Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life
		Sarajevo speaks to us now some six years after the signing of the peace, not so much because of its past, but because it has endured so much to sustain for itself a present that roots in the humanity of its past.
		Sarajevo is no different, except for the traumas endured and the revivifications engaged, experiences that mark, and will continue to mark, Sarajevans.
		The current MES Sarajevo International Theater Festival is a testament to the belief in Sarajevo that dramatic performance remains a key to the kind of life we wish to lead.
	www.corpse.org /issue_11/foreign_desk/graubard.html (9976 words)

	OTTOMAN SARAJEVO
		By the end of the 15th Century, Sarajevo had sixteen mosques, two imarets, three dervish lodges [tekija,] one medresa and several elementary schools [mekteb], and four public baths, two large hans for merchant-travelers, and, of course, the carsija at its heart.
		Until the very end of the Ottoman period, the skyline of Sarajevo was known for its 99 mahalas of whitewashed houses punctuated by 99 slender minarets that rose from their centers.
		The rich Ottoman housing stock of Sarajevo represented houses from the late 17th century to the early 20th, but they began to be torn down in the 1950s, replaced by modernism.
	www.friends-partners.org /bosnia/cb1.html (5273 words)

	last minute History_of_Sarajevo - last-minute-report.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Illyrians in the Sarajevo region belonged to the tribe âDaesitatesâ, a war-like people who were the last to resist Roman occupation.
		In the event that triggered the World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg were assassinated in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip.
		The recent Bosnian War resulted in large scale destruction and dramatic population shifts during the siege of the city between 1992 and 1995.
	www.last-minute-report.com /History_of_Sarajevo (1019 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Bosnian capital of Sarajevo was virtually unknown on the global stage when the Winter Olympics landed in the Balkans for the first time.
		Many of the facilities built for the Sarajevo Games were damaged or destroyed outright in the fighting that lasted from 1992 to 1995 following the recognition of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sovereign state.
		Sarajevo is rebuilding and the 1984 Olympic venues are no exception.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/history/1984sarajevo.shtml (1651 words)

	Search Results for "History of Sarajevo"
		Many opposition politicians won seats in the Sarajevo city council on Feb. 4.
		On March 19, after the final Serbian military withdrawal, Sarajevo was reunited under a Muslim government.
		He was known to favor a reorganization of the monarchy along "trialistic"...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=History+of+Sarajevo (234 words)

	::Sarajevo::
		The murder of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo is accepted by historians as the immediate cause of World War One though serious trouble - long term causes - had been brewing for sometime.
		However, Franz Ferdinand wanted to demonstrate that his family was in control of Sarajevo and to have stopped the tour would have been seen as a sign of weakness by those who did not want Bosnia and Sarajevo ruled by the Austrians.
		Therefore, within weeks of the murder at Sarajevo, five out of the six countries that had signed the two treaties were on the verge of war.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /sarajevo.htm (739 words)

	Sarajevo
		Sarajevo and Bosnia essentially became the dividing line between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox faiths when the church divided between Rome and Byzantium.
		Sarajevo was first put on the world map in 1914 as the site where Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated the heir to the Austrian throne and precipitated World War I. Bosnians of Croatian origin tended to side with Austria-Hungary while Bosnians of Serbian origin were more sympathetic towards Princip's wish to unite with Serbia.
		Within a month, the Grbavica section of Sarajevo was occupied and the rest of it was subject to shelling, sniper attacks, and starvation.
	www.crucibleofwar.com /sarajevo.htm (1087 words)

	History of the War in Bosnia
		Both Zubak and Krajisnik are opposed to a unified Bosnia with Sarajevo as the capital.
		The UN already had UNPROFOR (United Nations Protection Force) troops in Sarajevo at the outset of war because it was their base of operation for the UN mission in Croatia.
		But when Sarajevo came under attack by Serb artillery in April 1992, the UN forces pulled out to avoid casualties, leaving behind only a small and lightly armed contingent of "peacekeepers" to discourage attacks by Serbian nationalists.
	www.friendsofbosnia.org /edu_bos.html (2438 words)

	Annex VI : Study of the battle and siege of Sarajevo (part 1/10)
		The purpose of the chronology is to describe the events and consequences of the battle and siege of Sarajevo and to evaluate apparent patterns of violations of humanitarian law.
		In 1878 Sarajevo was assigned to Austria by the Treaty of Berlin.
		Sarajevo TV reported that mortar rounds were fired at the station and that fighting was underway around the main television transmission tower.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /comexpert/ANX/VI-01.htm (14342 words)

	SARAJEVO REMEMBERS HISTORY, CELEBRATES NOW / Multiethnic Olympic city recovers joie de vivre
		After the war, Kolar and his family preserved the portion of the tunnel on their property and created a museum, allowing tourists to glimpse a snippet of what life was like during the siege.
		"Sarajevo is the second place after Jerusalem where you can hear the bells of Catholic and Orthodox churches, and the call to prayer from a mosque and a Jewish synagogue, all in the same area," said Muhamed Viajcic, a 20-year-old law student and walking tour guide.
		While Edis Kolar admits that many Sarajevo residents would be happier if tourists came because of the beautiful mountains and the Olympics, he acknowledges that most come because of the war.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/04/TRGCVG0PQ31.TMP&type=printable (995 words)

	Sarajevo Notes (News) Julie Madsen
		Allan Graubard's discovery of Sarajevo's beauty and history led to some return trips, which the traveler documents in Exquisite Corpse with poetry, narration, historical notes, and a captivating photo essay.
		In a journal-like dialogue, Graubard captures the personalities of Sarajevo and its inhabitants, which both seem to be patiently and determinedly making their way out of ruin and tragedy.
		The writer comments on the simultaneous mood of progress and history that Sarajevo embodies, and he senses a difficult struggle between the two: "They (citizens) also sense that they must struggle to preserve what they value, and that there are some things they will lose in the effort, including their nostalgia.
	www.utne.com /webwatch/2002_151/news/2973-1.html (138 words)

	ZTN and Sarajevo Pipeline. History, III (Ivo Skoric) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Sarajevo On-Line event happened in the physical space of Studio 99 in Sarajevo, which became a cybe-cafe.
		A team of two journalists was sent to Sarajevo to set up the Internet connection (by means of computers connected to "suitcase satellites") and to supervise the participation of the city's inhabitants in the electronic forum.
		There were lots of requests from Sarajevo residents wanting to pass a letter to relatives or friends in the outside world.
	balkansnet.org /MF-draft/MFF/ztninwz3.htm (406 words)

	Clinical Center University of Sarajevo, History
		Beginnings of Clinical Center were in first inpatients health service in Sarajevo, founded in 1866 by Ottoman Empire Governor Topal Osman Pasha founded by the Gazi Husref-bays Vakuf.
		During the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina and the siege of Sarajevo, years 1992-1996, Clinical Center was shelled daily, regardless of hospital markings and knowledge that it was health institution.
		During the aggression staff and patients were transferred from destroyed departments into the operational ones and continued they activities but in a reduced and rationalized capacities.
	www.kcus.net /ehistorija.htm (287 words)

	1994, Jan. 4-5. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		In February, in order to obviate threatened NATO air strikes, Bosnian Serbs got rid of guns around Sarajevo; Russia sent mediators to assist with the situation.
		Bosnian Muslims signed a charter to create a federation with the Croats; U.S. president Clinton expressed hope that Serbs would join in these efforts.
		Bosnian Serbs began assaulting a Muslim enclave in and around the town of Gorazde, just southeast of Sarajevo.
	www.bartleby.com /67/3185.html (325 words)

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