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  Jajce - LoveToKnow 1911
JAJCE (pronounced Yaitse), a town of Bosnia, situated on the Pliva and Vrbas rivers, and at the terminus of a branch railway from Serajevo, 62 m.
Jajce occupies a conical hill, overlooking one of the finest waterfalls in Europe, where the Pliva rushes down into the Vrbas, 100 ft. below.
From 1463 to 1528 Jajce was the principal outwork of eastern Christendom against the Turks.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Jajce   (443 words)

  
 jajce
Education of the members of the Society, citizens of Jajce in general and young people in particular through the mass media, round tables, seminars, special exhibitions and other public activities aimed at promoting the respect and constant concern for the cultural and natural heritage.
According to the evaluation and categorization made before the war, the urban unit of Jajce was placed under the highest level of protection which means the conservation of the cultural heritage in its original state.
Jajce gives delight to the lovers of the unspoilt natural beauties and to the admirers of the long cultural tradition.
www.tel.net.ba /jajce-gradmuzej/society.htm   (773 words)

  
 Kulturarv utan gränser - Projects in Jajce
The town of Jajce with its medieval centre is considered to be one of the most important towns in Bosnia-Herzegovina of historic interest.
The project in Jajce arose out of the discussions with the council which The project in Jajce arose out of the discussions with the council which wanted to invest in the rebuilding of the town's cultural and historical sights.
The projects have included three private houses, two mosques, the roof on a gate tower that was part of the fortifications and town wall and the Omer Begova house which is to be the premises for tourist association and a minor exhibition of local historical importance.
www.chwb.org /index.php?articleId=58   (489 words)

  
 War Crimes > JAJCE - HERCEG BOSNA :: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina ::
On May 27th 1992, the Serbian artillery attacks were launched on the town of Jajce, and on August 12th the air raid was carried out, during which time the town was heavily bombed.
The B-H Army and the HVO joint forces defended the town of Jajce and the sections of the district that were not under occupation from the Serb aggression.
As yet unestablished number of Croat and Moslem civilians remained in the town of Jajce after the Serb occupation, some of them were arrested and imprisoned in the "Jajce" hotel at the Pliva Lakes.
www.hercegbosna.org /engleski/jaj.html   (357 words)

  
 BH Tourism - Jajce
Jajce has had more than its fair share of battles.
The town changed hands several times before the independent Bosnian state was finally conquered when the Jajce fortress was the last one to fall to the Ottoman invaders in 1528.
The outskirts of town are blessed with an abundance of water, which is probably what made it so attractive and practical as a settlement in earlier times.
www.bhtourism.ba /eng/jajce.wbsp   (147 words)

  
 Cultural heritage-Royal Trail- Society and Networking- British Council Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jajce is the first city in Bosnia and Herzegovina where the BiH Commission to Preserve National Monuments in October 2005 put up multilanguage signage to mark the national monuments.
The aim of this project is to draw the attention of as many local and international tourists as possible and improve the general knowledge and understanding of the cultural treasures of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The participants are children from Jajce and Šipovo and their teachers, as well as the municipal and canton officials in charge of tourism offer in the Pliva region.
www.britishcouncil.org /bih-society-cultural-heritage.htm   (596 words)

  
 NATO/SFOR Informer: Waters of Jajce give Canadians training opportunity
Jajce - A fl hood breaks the surface, then another.
To keep in training, Canadian Combat Divers have to dive at least six times every 90 days, regardless where in the world they are.
Therefore, the divers from 12 Field Squadron of the 2 Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) Battle Group takes to the water in Jajce whenever they get a chance.
www.nato.int /sfor/indexinf/103/s103p05a/t0012205a.htm   (453 words)

  
 Genonimo Jajce Travel Page - VirtualTourist.com
Jajce gained prominence during the Second World War because it hosted the second convention of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia on November 29, 1943, a meeting that set the foundation for the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia after WWII.
Jajce was allways known for its rich history but it was first in the year of 2006 that the city was nominated to be a UNESCO heritage.
Jajce is situated in the mountains, it is very beautiful nature near the city and it is forrested mountains, rivers like Vrbas and Pliva, lakes like Pliva lake and also a popular destination for the local people and maybe some turists, who is called Brana in the local language.
members.virtualtourist.com /m/82bd5/580d8   (597 words)

  
 The natural and architectural ensemble of Jajce - UNESCO World Heritage Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jajce is one of the places where public needs were met with only the minimum of new buildings, and where existing ones were adapted to use for the remaining urban functions.
As a result, the Jajce carsija did not show the mature and sophisticated composition graduating from the low eaves of the cepenka, to a human scale, via public buildings with more than one storey and their small domes to the main accent, the dome of the mosque with its minaret.
Present-day Jajce is developing primarily in the natural amphitheatre-like hollows downstream along the left bank of the Vrbas and to the west of the historic centre, on the right and left banks of the Pliva.
whc.unesco.org /fr/listesindicatives/2098   (1483 words)

  
 Definition of Jajce   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jajce is a town in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in the Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation.
Jajce is a town that was first built in the 14th century and which served as the capital of the independent Bosnian kingdom during its time.
Jajce gained prominence during the Second World War because it hosted the second convention of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia on November 29 1943, a meeting that set the foundation for the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia after WWII.
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 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
At the beginning of the Bosnian war, Jajce was inhabited by people from all ethnic groups, and was situated at a junction between areas of Serb majority to the north, Bosnian Muslim majority areas to the south-east and Croatian majority areas to the south-west.
Jajce was heavily bombed by the JNA during the Bosnian war 1992-1995.
Jajce is situated in the mountains, there is very beautiful countryside near the city of forested mountains, rivers like Vrbas and Pliva, lakes like Pliva lake and also a popular destination for the local people and perhaps some tourists, which is called Brana in the local language.
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 Jajce information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jajce is a town that was first built in the 14th century and which served as the capital of the independent Bosnian kingdom during its time.
Jajce gained prominence during the Second World War because it hosted the second convention of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia on November 29 1943, a meeting that set the foundation for the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia after WWII.
At the beginning of the Bosnian war, Jajce was inhabited by people from all ethnic groups, and was situated at a junction between areas of Serb majority to the north, Bosnian Muslim majority areas to the south-east and Croatian majority areas to the south-west.
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Their column moving from Srbobran towards Jajce was attacked on 13 September 1995 near the village of Bravnice, about 3 km from Jajce, by the members of the 2nd guard brigade of the Croatian army who ambushed them and began to kill mercilessly unarmed and totally surprised civilians in the refugee column.
When the bus, which was in the refugee column of tractors and carts, reached the village of Bravnice, 3 km from Jajce, we were ambushed by the members of the Croatian army who shot at the bus and killed most of its passengers.
When we set out from Srbobran to Jajce, the bus was overtaking a very long column of tractors, carts and those who walked with their cattle, as well as many freight vehicles full of people fleeing towards Jajce.
www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosta/izvestaji/jajce.txt   (2401 words)

  
 Jajce - TheBestLinks.com - Bosnia and Herzegovina, November 29, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 1943, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, November 29, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub...
Jajce is a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It is famous for hosting the second convention of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia on November 29 1943; a meeting that set the foundation for the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia after the Second World War.
www.thebestlinks.com /Jajce.html   (118 words)

  
 Jajce
Die Stadt Jajce (dt.: Jaitze) befindet sich in Zentral-Bosnien, 70 Kilometer südlich von Banja Luka, wo der Fluss Pliva über den schönen Wasserfall in den Fluss Vrbas mündet.
Jajce ist bekannt durch den Wasserfall und den Wallfahrtsort Podmilačje.
Jajce war bis zur Eroberung durch das Osmanische Reich die Hauptstadt Bosniens.
www.katastrophenalarm.de /Jajce.html   (142 words)

  
 Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina
After having heavily bombarded it, Serb forces occupied Jajce in October 1992, apparently due to lack of cooperation between Bosnian Muslim and Croatian forces.
In the Croat counteroffensives of August-September 1995, the town was taken by Croatian forces, and became part of the Muslim-Croat Federation according to the Dayton convention.
The roads and other infrastructure that connect Jajce to the villages surrounding it (part of the Jajce municipality) are in bad shape due the wartime devastation.
www.creekin.net /c1478-n24-jajce-bosnia-and-herzegovina.html   (385 words)

  
 International Crisis Group -   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Croat-controlled Jajce and Bosniac-controlled Travnik are both municipalities to which displaced persons who do not belong to the majority ethnic group have been returning in substantial numbers.
In both Jajce and Travnik parallel municipal institutions remain in place and education is segregated.
Aid to returnees in Jajce has been restricted owing to the uncooperative attitude of the municipal authorities, yet donors should be able to target their assistance so as to support return without strengthening the authorities.
www.crisisgroup.org /home/index.cfm?id=1508&l=5   (828 words)

  
 Map of Jajce, Federacija Bosne I Hercegovine BA by MapQuest
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www.mapquest.com /maps/map.adp?formtype=address&country=BA&addtohistory=&city=Jajce   (123 words)

  
 JAJCE (pronounced Yaitse) - Online Information article about JAJCE (pronounced Yaitse)
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year; and, although Mahomet returned in 1464, he was again defeated at Jajce, and compelled to flee before another Hungarian advance.
Mohacs; and in 1528 Jajce was forced to surrender.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /INV_JED/JAJCE_pronounced_Yaitse_.html   (626 words)

  
 Bosnia-Hercegovina Travel Information | Lonely Planet Destination Guide
Jajce (pronounced 'yaitse') is a medieval walled city of cobbled streets and old houses in hilly country on the main highway from Sarajevo to Zagreb, Croatia.
Prior to the 15th-century Turkish conquest, Jajce was the seat of the Christian kings of Bosnia.
Often at the centre of conflict, Jajce was the short-lived capital of liberated Yugoslavia in 1943 and in October 1992, Serbian separatists brutally expelled 35,000 Muslims from this historic city, where they had previously been the largest ethnic group.
www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/europe/bosnia-hercegovina?att=44057   (171 words)

  
 Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung - Qualifizierung   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In Jajce werden wöchentlich 4.000 Autofelgen für den internationalen Markt produziert.
Parallel läuft der allgemeinbildende Unterricht in der Berufsschule von Jajce weiter.
Ausgehend von der Berufsschule in Jajce etabliert sich ein bewährtes Ausbildungssystem, das zukunftsweisend für das ganze Land sein kann.
www.bmz.de /de/laender/partnerlaender/bosnien_herzegowina/projekte/qualifizierung.html   (361 words)

  
 PeterMaass.com | Newspaper Archive
Some are leaving in cars, but most are walking or riding in wooden hay wagons, forming a column of destitution and despair stretching from Serb-captured Jajce to safety in Travnik 40 miles away.
The only thing of value that Delil Karajdzic had salvaged from Jajce was his rain-soaked flock of 25 sheep.
He escaped Jajce with about a dozen members of his family, the children and women alternating riding four ponies.
www.petermaass.com /core.cfm?p=3&news=1&newspaper=10   (977 words)

  
 BOŠNJACI.net
Some 150 km northwest of Sarajevo lies Jajce and old walled city of Jajce, where Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was transformed in 1943 from kingdom to republic.
Jajce is a ancient Roman town rebuilt in the 10th century on the rivers Pliva and Vrbas.
Serb forces occupied Jajce in 24th October 1992, apparently due to lack of cooperation between paramilitary Croatian forces (who consistenly blocked the delivery of heavy weapons to Bosnians) and insufficiently armed and supplied Army of Bosnia Herzegovina.
www.bosnjaci.net /egt.php?id=250   (588 words)

  
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Jajce is a town in central bosnia, 70km south from Banja Luka, where the river Pliva ends into the river Vrbas over the beautiful waterfall of Jajce.
Jajce is known through its waterfall and its place of pilgrimage called Podmilacje.
Jajce is also known as former king's town, so there are a lot of good preserved buildings that remind of this period.
www.grgic.de /jajce-gb.html   (101 words)

  
 Monastery Jajce
The monastery in Jajce was founded in 1885.
The rest of the catholics, after the Turkish conquest, were served by the Franciscans from Fojnica, near Jajce.
Towards the end of Turkish rule (1866), the Franciscans have built a basilica in Jajce and a church-tower later in 1893.
www.crkvajajce.org /engleski/strana_samostan.htm   (272 words)

  
 UNHCR - Refugees Magazine Issue 95 (The international year of the family) - Neither here nor there
Bubric and their 14-year-old daughter fled their hometown of Jajce in October 1992 following a wave of vicious "ethnic cleansing" by Serb extremists all across northern Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Neighbor turned against neighbor and today Jajce is a Serb town, its former Muslim and Croat residents either dead or scattered throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia.
The Jovicics fled their hometown of Jajce after enduring six months of fighting, most of which they spent in the cellar of their home.
www.unhcr.org /publ/PUBL/3b53f0811.html   (1450 words)

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