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100 unusual facts about Sarajevo


16th Air Expeditionary Wing

It operated expeditionary sites at Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo; Camp Able Sentry, Macedonia; Sarajevo and Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia; Taszar Air Base, Hungary; Zagreb, Croatia and Naval Air Station Sigonella and San Vito Air Station, Italy; in addition to a contingency processing center at Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany.

1969–70 FIBA European Champions Cup

The Final was held at the Sportska Dvorana Skenderija in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia on April 4, 1970.

1996 Sarajevo tram attack

The 1996 Sarajevo tram attack occurred on 9 January 1996 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

2003 IIHF World U18 Championships

The Group A tournament was held between 5 and 8 March 2003 in Mexico City, Mexico and the Group B tournament was held between 6 and 9 February 2003 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

2011 in Serbia

May 26: Ratko Mladić, the war crimes fugitive accused of orchestrating the Siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre, has been arrested in Serbia.

Adnan Hodžić

Hodžić and his family emigrated from war-torn Sarajevo, Bosnia in 1994 after Adnan needed treatment for an eye injury sustained while playing with a friend.

Aleksandar Hemon

Hemon also has a bi-weekly column, written and published in Bosnian, called "Hemonwood" in the Sarajevo-based magazine, BH Dani (BH Days).

Alexander Mayorov

Mayorov finished 14th in the individual event at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Alexey Suetin

As an active tournament player in the 1960s and 1970s, he achieved many fine results, including sharing or winning outright first place at Sarajevo 1965, Copenhagen 1965, Titovo Uzice 1966, Hastings 1967/68, Havana 1969, Albena 1970, Kecskemet 1972, Brno 1975 (the inaugural Czech Open Championship – the title of Champion going to Vlastimil Hort on tie-break), Lublin 1976, and Dubna 1979.

Argentina at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Argentina competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Australia at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Australia competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Banja Koviljača

Intensive development occurred until 1930, when Koviljača's jurisdiction was changed to Drinska Banovina, the capital in Sarajevo.

Bärbel Bohley

One of her later projects was a group help project near Sarajevo, where she put great effort into building homes in order to enable refugees to return after the armed conflicts in Bosnia-Hercegovina.

Bishops' Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The General Secretariat of the Bishops' Conference has its headquarters in Sarajevo, Franjo Komarica, Bishop of Banja Luka, is the President.

Care Highway

In Sarajevo, he evaluated a medical centre and starting a missing children project.

Centar

Centar Municipality, Sarajevo, a municipality in Sarajevo, in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Charlotte Eagar

Whilst working for a variety of British newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer, the Sunday Telegraph, the Spectator, The Mail on Sunday and Tatler, she has written stories from such diverse places as Sarajevo, Moscow, Baghdad, Kabul and Rome.

Chile at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Chile competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia after missing the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Cyprus at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Cyprus competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Doris Hugosson

She finished fifth in the 4 x 5 km relay at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Edin Hadžialagić

On the club level, he played for Sarajevo, Čelik Zenica, Željezničar Sarajevo, Maribor and Olimpija Ljubljana.

Edward J. Erickson

In 1995 he was assigned to the NATO Headquarters in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he served as a Military Assistant to Commander, Implementation Force (IFOR) (COMIFOR).

Envera Selimović

Selimović graduated Politology at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo.

Erroll Fraser

Erroll Canute Fraser (July 30, 1950 – December 24, 2002) was an ice speed skater from the British Virgin Islands, who represented his native country in at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia at the age of 33.

Flory Jagoda

Flory Jagoda was born to a Bosnian Jewish family in 1923, and grew up in the Bosnian town of Vlasenica and in Sarajevo.

FN M1900

Contrary to many reports from various sources, an M1900 was not used to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914; the handgun used by Gavrilo Princip in that notorious incident was instead a FN 1910.

Frederick Stocken

He conducted the work at the opening of the Permanent Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum with the strings of the Royal Academy of Music, and also in Sarajevo with the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra.

Gabriele Moreno Locatelli

The organization was there to deliver mail, assist the United Nations military in delivering food and clothing, and bring water and assistance to elderly and sick civilians in Sarajevo during the siege of Sarajevo.

Gani Bey Kryeziu


Gani grew up in Serbia, attended a military academy in Sarajevo, and served in the Serbian army in early '20s, as well as aide-de-camp for Alexander I of Yugoslavia, and for a short time in Albania during 1925 after the June Revolution and Zogu coming into power.

Gerhard Oechsle

Oechsle also finished ninth in the four-man event at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Gertrud Leistikow

In 1914 Leistikow's solo performances already drew considerable crowds in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Lausanne, Utrecht and Sarajevo.

Gordan Vidović

Gordan Vidović (born 23 June 1968 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a former football player who played for the Belgium national team.

He was spotted there in 1988, by FK Željezničar Sarajevo and soon moved to this top division club where he played 87 games and scored 16 goals.

Greece at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Greece competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Grega Benedik

Grega Benedik (born May 11, 1962) is a former Slovenian alpine skier who represented Yugoslavia at the Olympics in 1984 in Sarajevo and 1988 in Calgary.

Günther Lemmerer

Competing in two Winter Olympics, Lemmerer earned his best finish of fifth in the men's doubles event at Sarajevo in 1984.

Habitus: A Diaspora Journal

The second issue, released in June 2007, is dedicated to Sarajevo.

Iceland at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Iceland competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Ingrīda Amantova

Competing in two Winter Olympics, she won the bronze medal in the women's singles event at Lake Placid, New York in 1980 and finished fourth in the same event at the following Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Islamska zajednica

The Islamska zajednica was formed in 1882 in Sarajevo.

István Tisza

A few days before the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, which resulted in World War I, Tisza supported a strong stand against Serbia.

Ivan Focht

Focht graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, after which he returned to Sarajevo where he was elected assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo.

Iván Peñaranda

From there onwards Peñaranda's career went downhill, as he never settled in a team and often changed countries, until his definite release by Milan in June 2006: abroad, he played in Mexico for C.F. Pachuca, Bosnia and Herzegovina for FK Slavija (Sarajevo) and in Azerbaijan with Neftchi Baku PFC, appearing in the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League preliminary rounds with the latter.

Jeff Hastings

Jeffrey Paul "Jeff" Hastings (born June 25, 1959, in Mountain Home, Idaho) was an American ski jumper who competed in the Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo in 1984.

Jouko Vesterlund

Jouko Valdemar Vesterlund (born May 1, 1959 in Rovaniemi) is a former speed skater from Finland, who represented his native country at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Kevin Hamilton

Overseas, he has also served at Canada's embassies in Tel Aviv (Israel) and Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina).

Klaus Kopp

Kopp also finished ninth in the four-man event at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Kurt Schork

After Schork died, as per his personal wishes, upon cremation half of his ashes was buried next to his mother in Washington, D.C., and half at "Groblje LAV" (The Lion Cemetery) in Sarajevo, next to the grave of Boško and Admira, the central figures in Schork's acclaimed story.

He filed the story Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo, about a young couple, Boško Brkic and Admira Ismic, an Eastern Orthodox Bosnian Serb young man and Muslim Bosniak girl killed during the Siege of Sarajevo.

Kyle Hill

During the 2007–08 season, Hill played five games with KK Bosna from Sarajevo and he then returned to Udine.

Le Sommeil du monstre

The story takes place in a dystopic portrayal of the year 2023, and centers around Nike Hatzfield, a man with extraordinary memory who uses his skill to recall his violent childhood in Sarajevo during the 1990s Yugoslav wars.

Lebanon at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Lebanon competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Lev Psakhis

In international tournaments, he has had many fine results, including outright or shared first place at Naleczow 1980, Sarajevo 1981, Cienfuegos 1983, Troon 1984, Sverdlovsk 1984, Szirak 1986, Sarajevo 1986, Sevastopol 1986, Lugano Open 1988, Tel Aviv 1990 (and again in 1999), London MSO 1999 and Andorra 2002.

Leyla Aliyeva

On February 24, 2012 Leyla Aliyeva attended opening ceremony of "Park of Friendship" and unveiled a monument to victims of Khojaly Massacre in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Luna\TBWA

In 2003, it established the regional advertising network TBWA Adriatic, established in 2003, with agencies in Zagreb, Belgrade, Sarajevo and Sofia.

Milan Matulović

Other first place finishes during this period, either shared or outright, included Netanya 1961, Vršac 1964, Novi Sad 1965, Belgrade 1965, Reggio Emilia 1967/68, Athens Zonal 1969, Belgrade 1969, Sarajevo 1971, Birmingham 1975, Bajmok 1975 (and in 1978), Majdanpek 1976, Vrbas 1976, Belgrade 1977 and Odzaci 1978.

Milan Rajlić

In 1947, he was ordered by communist authorities to join newly founded FK Sarajevo for which he played until 1949.

Monika Auer

Competing in two Winter Olympics, Auer earned her best finish of 13th in the women's singles event at Sarajevo in 1984.

Morocco at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Morocco competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Neda Ukraden

She grew up in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, but she also lived in a few other Bosnian cities, mainly because of her father's professional commitments.

Respecting the wishes of her father, she attended University of Sarajevo where she unsuccessfully attempted degrees in Law and Philology, English language.

Nedim Jusufbegović

Several years after retiring from football as a player, namely in 2009, he was employed as a manager by the newly revitalized Sarajevo team FK Olimpic Sarajevo.

Nehemiah Hayyun

His parents, of Sephardic descent, lived in Sarajevo, Bosnia (then a part of the Ottoman Empire), where probably he was born, although in later life he pretended that he was a Palestinian emissary born in Safed.

Nenad Marković

On 29 January 2009, he was named vice-mayor of Bosnia-Herzegovina's capital, city of Sarajevo, working under mayor Alija Behmen.

Netherlands at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Athletes from the Netherlands competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Notre musique

It tells the story of two young women visiting a European arts conference in Sarajevo: Judith Lerner (Sarah Adler), a journalist from Tel Aviv, and Olga Brodsky (Nade Dieu), a French-speaking Jew of Russian descent.

Oktoih

Two volumes from 1493 and 1494 are kept in the museum of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Oleg Bozhev

Competing for the Soviet Union, Oleg Bozhev had his best year in 1984 when he won a bronze medal on the 1,500 m at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, became World Allround Champion ten days later, became Soviet Allround Champion two weeks after that and skated a world record on the 1,500 m another two weeks later.

Olga Sober

Olga Sober (Šober) (born in Sarajevo) is an opera singer and leading soprano in the Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka.

Pavel Šnobel

In 2008, Šnobel won Croatia F2 in February and reached a Challenger semifinal in March in Sarajevo, and a Challenger quarterfinal in Korea in April.

Peter van Uhm

At the turn of the millennium van Uhm, then a brigadier general, was assigned to headquarters of the Stabilisation Force SFOR in Sarajevo as Assistant Chief of Staff for Joint Military Affairs.

Piotr Fijas

Fijas also finished seventh in the individual normal hill at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Ratko Perić

He received doctorate from the Pontifical Urbaniana University in 1971, and then taught at Catholic seminaries in Sarajevo, Zagreb, and for several years at the Gregoriana in Rome.

Rauf Dhomi

Before his university career he went to school in Prizren and studied composing and conducting in Sarajevo.

Rijeka Airport

Domestic airline Aeroput opened a route linking Sušak to Zagreb in 1930, and a year later a route linking Zagreb to Belgrade via Sušak, Split and Sarajevo was opened.

Robert Edward Crozier Long

The stewing Balkan cauldron erupted again during late June, 1914, with the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, at Sarajevo, Bosnia.

Said Fazlagić

Said Fazlagić (born January 25, 1969 in Sarajevo) is a retired Bosnian international footballer who played professionally in Europe and the United States as a left back.

Sarajevo International Culture Exchange

Sarajevo International Culture Exchange (short:SICE) was an international art project annually taking place between 2003 and 2007 in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Sedin Torlak

Furthermore he developed to one of the most important players of FK Sarajevo, especially on the defensive end.

Sergey Bulygin

During his career he won an Olympic gold medal as part of the Soviet Union 4 x 7.5 km relay team in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and 4 gold medals and a silver at World Championships.

Sergey Chervyakov

Chervyakov finished 12th in the individual event at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Skakavac

Skakavac, Sarajevo, a waterfall near Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Staffan de Mistura

In addition, he was given special humanitarian assignments to Dubrovnik, Sarajevo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Vietnam and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.

Strip Art Features

SAF was founded by comic book author and publisher Ervin Rustemagić in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1972.

Sven-Erik Danielsson

Danielsson also finished 15th in the 15 kilometers event at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Svetozar Marović

On 13 November 2003, he visited Sarajevo and issued another apology, this time to citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina on behalf of citizens of Serbia-Montenegro, for "any evil or calamity that anyone in Bosnia-Herzegovina suffered at the hands of anyone from Serbia-Montenegro".

Switzerland at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Switzerland competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

The Post-Birthday World

The following yearm, 1997, Lawrence is away in Sarajevo but encourages Irina to contact Ramsey, leading to the fateful decision on which the rest of the book hinges; whether or not to kiss Ramsey after retiring to his house to smoke dope after their restaurant meal.

The Scent of Rain in the Balkans

In 1992, ballet by Croatian composer Igor Kuljerić The Scent of Rain in the Balkans – a Ballet for Riki premiered in Sarajevo, and then a week after in Belgrade.

Valentin Bozhkov

Valentin Bozhkov (born May 2, 1958 in Samokov) is a Bulgarian ski jumper that competed in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Valery Dudin

He earned the bronze medal in the men's singles event at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Velija Bećirspahić

He started his career in FK Pofalićki, a small club from Sarajevo.

Vin Ray

Influenced by the deaths and injuries of colleagues—he was with Martin Bell in Sarajevo when he was injured—Vin was instrumental in helping introduce safety equipment, courses and counselling services across the industry.

Where the Stress Falls

The essays vary between her experiences in the theater ("Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo") to book reviews.

William L. Eagleton

After his term as Ambassador to Syria ended in 1988, Eagleton worked with the United Nations as Deputy Commissioner-General for Palestinian Refugees (1988–94), Special Coordinator for Sarajevo (1994–1996), and Director of UN Operations in Western Sahara (1999-2001).

Yevgeny Vladimirovich Belousov

Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won the silver medal in the men's doubles event at Sarajevo in 1984.

Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986

The winner was decided by the votes of eight regional juries (Sarajevo, Zagreb, Skopje, Titograd, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Pristina and Novi Sad).

Yuris Eyssak

Eisaks also finished seventh in the men's doubles event at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Želimir Vidović

He was killed during the Siege of Sarajevo while transporting wounded citizens to the nearby hospital.

Zintis Ekmanis

Competing in four Winter Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the two-man event at Sarajevo in 1984.


Arnela Odžaković

Since the year 2000 she is a member of the Bushido karate club in Sarajevo.

Battle of Dessau Bridge

His rally did not last long as he died outside of a village in Sarajevo soon before his ally, Johann von Ernst.

Battle of Liège

After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, the Austrian Empire went to war with Serbia.

Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999

The Bosnian national final was held on 6 March 1999 at the Skenderija City Hall in Sarajevo, hosted by Segmedina Srna and Lejla Babović.

Bosniak Academy of Sciences and Arts

The institution is based in Sarajevo (BiH) and has divisions in both Sarajevo and Novi Pazar (Serbia) to better reflect Bosniak interests in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sandžak.

Braco Dimitrijević

Slobodan “Braco” Dimitrijević was born on 18 June 1948 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia.

Bulgaria at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Bulgaria competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Claudia Tenney

She acted as intermediary between ABC Sports and the Yugoslavian government leading up to the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Das Fräulein

Both of them receive a jolt when Ana (Marija Skaricic), a young Bosniak, itinerant woman who has fled Sarajevo, breezes into the cafeteria looking for work.

Dead Ideas

During 1994, the band performed at a festival held in the Italian town Rovigo, organized to raise funds for restoring the Sarajevo city library.

Dutchbat

DUTCHBAT's zone fell under siege by the VRS, when NATO air forces began bombing the Bosnian Serbs besieging Sarajevo.

Đorđe Novković

In 1973, Pro Arte merged with another Sarajevo pop group Indexi, but the experiment lasted only several months.

Eynar Veyksha

Veyksha also finished seventh in the men's doubles event at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Gilles Elseneer

This was arguably the strongest year of his career, in which he reached the second rounds of the French Open (l. to Gustavo Kuerten) and Wimbledon (l. to Ivo Karlović), and won the challengers of Heilbronn and Sarajevo.

Great Britain at the 1984 Winter Olympics

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

History of legal education in Serbia

During the 20th century, all the law schools that later emerged in Serbia (Subotica, Novi Sad, Priština, Niš, Kragujevac), Montenegro (Podgorica), and in other parts of the former Yugoslavia (Sarajevo, Skoplje) were formed from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law as a core.

Horde Zla

The Horde Zla became the fastest growing youth organisation in the city of Sarajevo, Sarajevo Canton, financing itself through a very well organised, vertically integrated marketing system, as well as a very rigid members policy.

İzmit Clock Tower

In the former Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire, particularly in present-day Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin towns such as Belgrade, Prijepolje, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Gradačac and Stara Varoš, similar Ottoman era clock towers are still named Sahat Kula (deriving from the Turkish words Saat Kulesi, meaning Clock Tower.)

Josip Štadler

He died in Sarajevo in his 75th year on the feast day of the Assumption.

Mrtva priroda

Before the Sarajevo concert on Mrtva priroda tour, Đorđević had to write an explanation for this problematic lyrics and sign a statement that he would sing the song "Na zapadu ništa novo" on his own risk.

Mustafa Mujezinović

Since 1996 to 1998 he was the first Prime Minister of Sarajevo Canton, and since 1998 to 2000 Governor of the Canton of Sarajevo.

Nijaz Ferhatović

Nijaz Ferhatović pronounced: (Niyaz Ferhatovich) (born March 12, 1955 in Sarajevo, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian defender who played for SFR Yugoslavia.

Pjer Žalica

Pjer Žalica (born 7 May 1964 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian film director and a professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo.

San Marino at the 1984 Winter Olympics

San Marino competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Sikter

During that time the team of journalists from BBC came to Sarajevo and started to hang out with the band members.

Slobodan Obradov

In 1954 he was elected assistant professor, in 1961 as professor and in 1968 as tenured professor of the medical faculty in Sarajevo.

SMS Viribus Unitis

On 30 June, two days after Ferdinand and his wife were killed by Gavrilo Princip in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo, Viribus Unitis transported their bodies back to Trieste.

Tony van Diepenbrugge

Assigned to the IFOR Headquarters in Sarajevo he worked as director of the Joint Operation Center.

Tuga ti i ja

"Tuga ti i ja" is a song released in 1989 by the Sarajevo-based pop band Crvena jabuka.

Werner Jäger

Werner Jäger (born September 3, 1959) is a former ice speed skater from Austria, who represented his native country at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia

Zablon Amanaka

From January 2005 until January 2006, he played in Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina traditionally strongest club, FK Željezničar from the capital Sarajevo.