Sarajevo

Sarajevo,¹ the capital of Sarajevo Canton,² of the Federation of Bosna and Hercegovina,³ and of the nation of Bosna and Hercegovina,⁴ is located within the Dinarkso Mountains⁵ on both sides of the Miljacka River.⁶ It came into prominence before 1600 as Saraybosna⁷ when a provincial capital of Develet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye (the Ottoman Empire). It was destroyed in 1697 when conquered by Christians, but slowly recovered. Today it has a population of 375 thousand, with 475 thousand in the canton.⁸ The tallest building as of early fall 2018 is the Avaz Twist Building (466 feet, 2009)⁹ named because its shape is twisty. Other notable buildings include the Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque (154 feet, 1532, damaged in the 1990s), the Greece-Bosnia and Herzegovina Friendship Building (a city hall, 264 feet, 1982, rebuilt in 2006 after being damaged in the 1990s), the Hotel Holiday (176 feet, 1983, damaged in the 1990s), and the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1894, damaged in the 1990s, renovated in 2014).¹⁰ Tourists enjoy the city.¹¹

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External references

Overview of Sarajevo with the Avaz Twist Building prominent, Sarajevo Canton, Bosna and Hercegovina Federation, Bosna and Hercegovina

Footnotes

1. Sarajevo is how it is written in Bosnian and Croatian. It is written Сарајево in Serbian.
2. Kanton Sarajevo in Bosnian, Sarajevska županija in Croatian and Сарајевски кантон (Sarajevski kanton) in Serbian.
3. Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine in Bosnian and Croatian, which is written as Федерација Босне и Хереговине in Serbian.
4. Bosna i Hercegovina in Bosnian and Croatian, which is written as Босна и Хереговина in Serbian. Bosnia and Herzegovina in English.
5. Dinaric Alps in English.
6. Or Milatska in transliterated Serbian. It flows into the Bosna River, which flows into the Sava, which flows into the Danube, which flows into the Black Sea, which is connected to the Atlantic Ocean.
7. The empire at the time used a Perso-Arabic script. I do not know the city's representation in that script.
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina, accessed September 8, 2018. Canton 2013; city proper 2013 preliminary.
9. 466 feet is the architectural height. It is 564 feet to the tip.
10. Information about buildings is from emporis.com, accessed September 27, 2018.
11. https://www.thecrazytourist.com/15-best-places-visit-bosnia-herzegovina/, accessed September 10, 2018.
12. Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987), "Tables of the World's Largest Cities." In 1600 it was the largest city in what is now Magyarország, Hrvatska, Slovenija, and Bosna and Hercegovina.