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| | Muzej Sarajeva - About Sarajevo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Sarajevo’s past reaches back to the New Stone Age (four thousand years ago), and the first known inhabitants of Butmir, followed by the Illyrians, Romans, Germans, Slavs, Ottomans and Austro-Hungarians, and today’s peoples – the Boshniaks, Jews, Croats, Serbs and other its citizens. |
 | | The cultural heritage of Sarajevo is a treasure-house of medieval and oriental manuscripts, icons and ornaments, jewellery and arms, household items contemporary artistic creations of many kinds, etc. Sarajevo has lived through the historical eras of antiquity, the Middle Ages and modern times – the medieval Bosnian state, the Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian and Yugoslav periods. |
 | | Sarajevo today is the centre and capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with its own agglomeration of cultural, social and economic life. |
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