Latin Bridge

It was next to this bridge Gavrilo Princip shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

August 3rd 2010
Sarajevo - then and now This summer we have been travelling around in the Balkans for three weeks. We visited four different countries namely Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Albania. Here in the blog we will start by telling you what we did in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first city we visited in Bosnia and Herzegovina was the capital Sarajevo. For Emma this was the f ... read more

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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

6th October 2010

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I was in exactly the place in your photo, in 1989. There has been a war since then, so I wonder if the place has changed any. I want to go back and have a look, some time. :)

6th January 2015

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Latin Bridge
The name Latinska Ćuprija may not mean much to the casual visitor to Sarajevo but mention ‘Franz Ferdinand’ and ‘World War I’ to anyone who did modern history in high school and the penny will drop.Beyond a plaque at the site and a small museum nearby little fuss is made of its notoriety but standing here you are at the place where Princip fired his pistol and where the rest, as they say, is history.

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