Sarajevo

Sarajevo is The capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its largest urban, cultural, economic and transportation center, the capital of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the headquarters of the Sarajevo Canton, which has an estimated 429,672 inhabitants. River flows through the city Miljacka, and close to the city and the source of the river of Bosnia, with a popular excursion from Sarajevo, Bosnia hot. Around the city there are two mountains: Jahorina Bjelasnica Igman, Treskavica and Trebevic.

Sarajevo is the seat of the largest higher education institution in the country, the University of Sarajevo, and many other higher education institutions, which ranks among the largest university centers throughout the region of Southeast Europe. With several national and municipal theaters, museums and cultural institutions of Sarajevo was an important place on the cultural map of this part of the continent.

Sarajevo has a turbulent history, which often had an impact on global events. Thus, in 1914. in Sarajevo killed the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand, thus starting the First World War, and seventy years later, 1984. the city take place 14th Winter Olympics. In the early 1990s, the name of the city of Sarajevo does not come down from the home daily newspapers in the whole world, because that led one of the wars in recent European and world history. After the war, the prewar municipalities in which Serbs were the most established in East Sarajevo, which is part of the Serbian Republic.

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