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| | OTTOMAN SARAJEVO |
 | | Even in 1990, before the recent war that tore Bosnia apart, Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia, retained a central core that was evocative of its Ottoman past. |
 | | 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. |
 | | 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. |
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