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It’s the city where East meets West. On Ferhadija street in the heart of Sarajevo, the grand Austro-Hungarian architecture of Christian Europe suddenly gives way to the low roofs and timber frames of the Muslim Ottoman Empire. For centuries, this was the multicultural epicenter of Europe, a city where Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and Orthodox Christians all rubbed shoulders.
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Source/Further reading:
www.britannica.com/place/Sara...
www.lonelyplanet.com/bosnia-a...
Ottoman Sarajevo: visitsarajevo.ba/sarajevo-in-o...
Origin of name: www.sarajevotimes.com/read-ho...
Austrian rule and Franz Ferdinand assassination: www.ft.com/content/293938b2-a...
visitsarajevo.ba/sarajevo-in-a...
Bosnian Crisis of 1908: www.britannica.com/event/Bosn...
Jews of Sarajevo: www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...
Sarajevo in WWII: sarajevo.travel/en/text/april...
History of ethnic tensions in Yugoslavia: www.ricksteves.com/watch-read...
Siege: owlcation.com/humanities/The-...
Siege images: www.rferl.org/a/twenty-five-y...
Some siege numbers, and a lack of justice even in 2019: balkaninsight.com/2019/03/11/...
Tito Nostalgia in Sarajevo: balkaninsight.com/2017/03/13/...
Franjo Tudjman: balkaninsight.com/2017/10/11/...
Interactive Demographic map of Bosnia today: www.popis.gov.ba/popis2013/map...
(Timeline): sarajevo.ba/sarajevo-through-h...