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Baščaršija Square  
   

Baščaršija Square

Baščaršija square and Baščaršija Džamija (Havadža Durak Mosque). Built ca. 1528, the mosque was founded by mullah Durak. In the center of the square is a fountain. "The Sebilj is a pseudo-Ottoman-style wooden fountain (sebil) in the centre of Baščaršija square in Sarajevo built by Mehmed Pasha Kukavica in 1753"—Baedeker 1911. EE1975183p1
Sarajevo

August 7th 1975
I knew of Sarajevo as the place where World War I was touched off by Gavrilo's Princip's assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. Princip was a Serb desiring the unification of the Balkan states. (Bosnia and Herzegovinga, where Sarajevo is located, wanted independence from Austria-Hungary, but not union with Serbia and the other Balkan states.) The assassination was considered by Yugo ... read more
Europe » Bosnia & Herzegovina » East » Sarajevo

Bosnian, Herzegovinian Flag Bosnia and Herzegovina's declaration of sovereignty in October 1991, was followed by a declaration of independence from the former Yugoslavia on 3 March 1992 after a referendum boycotted by ethnic Serbs. The Bosnian Serbs - supported by neighboring S... ... read more
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