Sarajevo: The City and the Siege

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:

https://www.britannica.com/place/Sarajevo
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/bosnia-and-hercegovina/sarajevo/history
Ottoman Sarajevo: http://visitsarajevo.ba/sarajevo-in-ottoman-empire-2/?lang=en
Origin of name: https://www.sarajevotimes.com/read-how-some-cities-in-bih-got-their-names/
Austrian rule and Franz Ferdinand assassination: https://www.ft.com/content/293938b2-afcd-11e3-9cd1-00144feab7de
http://visitsarajevo.ba/sarajevo-in-austro-hungarian-empire/?lang=en
Bosnian Crisis of 1908: https://www.britannica.com/event/Bosnian-crisis-of-1908
Jews of Sarajevo: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sarajevo-bosnia-and-herzegovina-jewish-history-tour
Sarajevo in WWII: https://sarajevo.travel/en/text/april-6-sarajevos-liberation/182
History of ethnic tensions in Yugoslavia: https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/read/understanding-yugoslavia
Siege: https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Siege-of-Sarajevo
Siege images: https://www.rferl.org/a/twenty-five-years-on-from-the-siege-of-sarajevo/28407397.html
Some siege numbers, and a lack of justice even in 2019: https://balkaninsight.com/2019/03/11/sarajevo-siege-how-perpetrators-of-deadly-attacks-remain-unprosecuted/
Tito Nostalgia in Sarajevo: https://balkaninsight.com/2017/03/13/strife-torn-bosnians-yearn-for-tito-s-golden-age-03-10-2017/
Franjo Tudjman: https://balkaninsight.com/2017/10/11/why-croatia-s-president-tudjman-imitated-general-franco-10-12-2017/
Interactive Demographic map of Bosnia today: http://www.popis.gov.ba/popis2013/mapa/?lang=eng
(Timeline): http://sarajevo.ba/sarajevo-through-history/?lang=en

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