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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.

1958–59 Yugoslav First League

Due to the reduction of the league from 14 to 12 clubs, at the end of the previous season four clubs were relegated (RNK Split, Spartak Subotica, OFK Belgrade and NK Zagreb) and were replaced by two teams - NK Rijeka and FK Sarajevo.

1996 Sarajevo tram attack

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

2003 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III

The Group B tournament began on 6 February 2003 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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).

Aleksandr Belyakov

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

Alexander Mayorov

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

Alexander Prosvirnin

Prosvirnin finished sixth 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.

Alhambra Decree

They also fled to south-eastern Europe where they were granted safety and formed flourishing local Jewish communities, the largest being those of Salonika, Istanbul, and Sarajevo.

Antisemitic Exhibition in Zagreb

Afterwards, its displays were exhibited to audiences in Karlovac, Dubrovnik and Sarajevo (6–20 September 1942).

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.

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.

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.

Bombaj Štampa

In December 2008, group members reunited for a concert in Sarajevo featuring original guitarist Nedim Babović and drummer Dragan Bajić along with bassist Ernie Mendillo (The Brandos).

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.

Braco Dimitrijević

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

Care Highway

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

Claudia Tenney

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

Damir Krupalija

Damir Krupalija (born June 13, 1979) is a Bosnian American professional basketball player born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia.

Dejan Bogdanović

Since then he has been soloist with many symphony and chamber orchestras, in his home country and abroad (symphony orchestras of Prague, Vienna, Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Kuhmo, Moscow and many others).

Diego Fabbrini

He made his debut with the Italy U-21 on 3 September 2010 in a qualification match against Bosnia Herzegovina played in Sarajevo.

Drago Došen

At a very early age Došen dedicated himself to the art in which he showed a great talent that lead him to a High School of Art in Sarajevo.

Dutchbat

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

Eynar Veyksha

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

Finland at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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

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.

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.

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.

Habitus: A Diaspora Journal

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

Haris Handžić

Haris Handžić (born 20 June 1990 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Bosnian football player currently playing as a striker for Lichtenstein club Vaduz in Swiss Challenge League.

Igor Malkov

Skating for the USSR, he became Olympic 10,000 m Champion at the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo, only 0.05 seconds ahead of Tomas Gustafson, becoming the youngest male Olympic champion in the history of Olympic speed skating at an age of 19 years and 9 days.

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.

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.

Ivan Štraus

Born in 1928, he started Architectural Studies in Zagreb in 1947 and graduated in 1958 from the technical faculty in Sarajevo.

Jasna Diklic

She was born in Sarajevo and her mother was also an actress and a puppeteer.

John F. Burns

Burns was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting citing "his courageous and thorough coverage of the destruction of Sarajevo and the barbarous killings in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina".

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).

Kieler Yacht-Club

In 1914, the German Emperor got the fateful news of the assassination of Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, while he was competing on a regatta organized by the Kaiserlicher Yacht Club.

Kornelije Kovač

He didn't pass the entrance exam so he entered the Academy Of Music Art in Sarajevo where he graduated from the Theory And Piano Department.

Kurt Schork

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.

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.

Luna\TBWA

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

Marc Behrend

He also played for the United States national hockey team in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo before turning professional.

Marie-Louise Rainer

Competing in four Winter Olympics, Rainer had her best finish of sixth in the women's singles event at Sarajevo in 1984.

Marijo Dodik

Dodik started his career at Željezničar Sarajevo before being picked up by the Belgian side Mechelen in 1995, where he spent two seasons in the Jupiler League and scored 20 goals in a total of 84 appearances.

Marko Bruerović

In 1793 he was engaged for 4 years in diplomatic work in Travnik (Bosnia and Herzegovina) as merchant attaché, where he also helped the Jewish merchants (based in Sarajevo).

Marko Jozinović

He was buried in Sacred Heart Cathedral in Sarajevo on 13 August 1994 while Sarajevo was under siege.

Milan Radonjić

Consequently and especially after Serbian law prohibited TV card readings, he started working at five television stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including nationwide OBN television based in Sarajevo, and a number of television stations in Croatia, including nationwide Nova TV based in Zagreb.

Milan Rajlić

Probably the best known player in the city of Sarajevo during the 1930s and 1940s, he started playing football at Slavija Sarajevo youth system in 1933.

Miško Šuvaković

He was co-editor of magazine Katalog 143 (Belgrade, 1975–78), Mentalni prostor (Belgrade, 1982–1987), Transkatalog (Novi Sad, 1995–1998), Teorija koja hoda (Walking Theory, Belgrade, from 2001), Kultura (Beograd, from 2004), Razlika (Difference, Tuzla, 2002), Anomalija (Novi Sad, 2004), Sarajevske sveske (Sarajevo, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Beograd, Skoplje, 2006).

Morocco at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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

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.

Neda Ukraden

When the war in Bosnia started, Neda left Sarajevo, Bosnia and moved to Belgrade, Serbia, where she resides today with her mother, daughter, son and grandchildren.

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.

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.

Olympic Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina

It grew out of the ZOI '84 organization, organizers of the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Operation Provide Promise

By the end of the operation, aircraft from 21 countries had flown 12,886 sorties into Sarajevo, delivering 159,622 tons of food, medicine, and supplies and evacuating over 1,300 wounded people.

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.

Poland at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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

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.

Roderick W. Moore

He later served as Political-Economic Counselor at the American Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia (1996–1999) and was Senior Political Adviser at the Office of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (1996).

Rolf Falk-Larssen

Being a typical allrounder, Falk-Larssen was not specialised enough to win an Olympic medal; he participated in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, but his best result in six races during those two Olympics was only a twelfth place.

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.

San Marino at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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

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).

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.

Shot Through the Heart

The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends and expert sharpshooters Vlado Selimović (Linus Roache) and Slavko Stanic (Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides of the Bosnian War in Sarajevo.

Škvorec

Their daughter married Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, whose descendant was Archduke Ferdinand d’Este, heir to the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and who was murdered at Sarajevo in 1914.

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.

Spain at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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

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.

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.

To my people

After assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo on June 28 1914 diplomatic relations between Austria-Hungary and Serbia got strained.

Tuga ti i ja

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

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1534

Finally, the Council welcomed efforts to establish a war crimes chamber in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and to ensure the success of domestic prosecutions in the country.

Valentin Bozhkov

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

Velija Bećirspahić

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

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

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).

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).

Zelene beretke

Zelene Beretke (English, "Green Berets") was a paramilitary organization founded in Sarajevo in early 1992.

Zlata's Diary

Zlata's Diary (ISBN 0-14-024205-8) is a book by Zlata Filipović, who was a young girl living in Sarajevo while it was under siege.

ZOS: Zone of Separation

It is an eight-part Canadian original drama mini-series about the life and death struggle to enforce a U.N.-brokered ceasefire in the fictional, Sarajevo-like town of Jadac.


Balkan Universities Network

Rector Faruk Čaklovica University of Sarajevo(Bosnia and Herzegovina), Member

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.

Carey Wilson

After playing college hockey, he played two more seasons for HIFK in Finland's SM-liiga and then finally played the 1983–84 season for the Canadian National Hockey team which resulted in him playing in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Centar

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

Chile at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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

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.

Dubioza kolektiv

The band was founded from members of bands Gluho Doba (Against Deaf Age) - Alan Hajduk, Adisa Zvekić, Almir Hasanbegović and Adis Zvekić from Zenica and Ornamenti - Brano Jakubović and Vedran Mujagić from Sarajevo.

Đorđe Novković

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

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.

Hein Vergeer

He had also competed in those same three distances at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo four years earlier, but did not do much better than with a tenth place as his best result.

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.

Ivo Pilar

He published the brochure Josip Štadler and the Croat People's Union (Sarajevo, 1908), which was opposed by the clergy and provoked a political rift between him and the Archbishop of Vrhbosna.

Jadranka Stojaković

Born in Sarajevo to a family of school teachers (her father is from Doboj, her mother from Dalmatia), Jadranka's first years were spent in a small village near Bosanski Novi where her parents got assigned to teach.

Josip Štadler

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

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.

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.

Monika Auer

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

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.

Saint Spyridon Church, Trieste

History of the Orthodox community in Trieste begins in 1751 when Empress Maria Theresa allow free practice of religion for Orthodox Christians what prompted immigration of Serbian traders from Herceg Novi, Trebinje and Sarajevo to Trieste.

Sasha Skenderija

Skenderija also contributed lyrics to three albums of the cult Sarajevo techno-industrial band SCH (VRIL, 2002; Eat This!, 2004; and Dance, 2007).

Senegal at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Senegal competed in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time 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.

Skakavac

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

Tony van Diepenbrugge

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

TRIO Sarajevo

Bojan Hadzihalilovic and Dada Hadžihalilović (together with a third artist, Lela Mulabegović Hatt) make up the design group "TRIO Sarajevo".

Vladimir Aleksandrov

He won the bronze medal in the two-man event at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Where the Stress Falls

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

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.