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100 unusual facts about Sarajevo


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 Championship Division III

The Group B tournament began on 6 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.

Air Combat Command

Provide Promise offered humanitarian relief airlift support to the city of Sarajevo, while Deny Flight enforced the "no-fly" zone against Serb air attacks on Bosnian civilians.

Aleksandr Belyakov

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

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.

Amor Mašović

Amor Mašović (born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on 29 December 1955), is a Bosnian politician and Chairman of the Bosnian Federal Commission for Missing Persons.

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.

Arnela Odžaković

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

Australia at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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

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.

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).

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.

Cyprus at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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

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.

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).

Ernst von Mansfeld

He set out for Venice, but when he reached Rakowitza near Sarajevo, in Bosnia, he was taken ill, and here he died on 29 November 1626.

Finland at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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

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.

Gerhard Oechsle

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

Greece at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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

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.

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.

Iceland at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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

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.

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.

Ivan Štraus

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

Ivana Gavrić

Ivana Gavrić (born in Sarajevo) is a British pianist.

Jacko Page

As well as staff posts in the Ministry of Defence, he has served as Chief of Staff of 24 Airmobile Brigade and with UNPROFOR in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Jeffrey Jost

Competing in two Winter Olympics, Jost earned his best finish of fifth in the four-man event at Sarajevo in 1984.

Jelena Lolović

Jelena Lolović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јелена Лоловић; born in Sarajevo, SR BiH, SFR Yugoslavia on July 14, 1981) is a Serbian alpine skier.

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.

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.

Marc Behrend

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

Margaret Moth

In July 1992, Moth was shot and severely wounded while filming in Sniper Alley in Sarajevo.

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.

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).

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.

Mirza Kapetanović

Mirza Kapetanović (born June 30, 1959 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian defender who played for SFR Yugoslavia.

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).

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.

Muafiyet

Sarajevo, in Bosnia Eyalet, was granted muafname by Mehmed II in 1460s; there was subsequent "creep" in the remit due to pressure from groups of local people.

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.

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

Nedim Jusufbegović

Jusufbegović was born in the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo.

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.

Nijaz Ferhatović

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

Olga Sober

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

Rogue state

On August 30, 1995, 1995 NATO air campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina was initiated and Serbian Armed Forces soon withdrew from the vicinity of Sarajevo.

Rolf Åge Berg

He finished fifth in the individual normal hill event at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

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.

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).

Sarajevo school of pop rock

The Sarajevo school of pop rock collectively refers to the popular music created between 1960 and 1991 by artists and bands native to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then part of Yugoslavia).

School of Economics and Business Sarajevo

The School of Economics and Business (SEBS) is a business school affiliated with the University of Sarajevo.

Seiko Hashimoto

She appeared in her first Olympics in 1984 in Sarajevo, competing in 500, 1,000, 1,500 and 3,000 m speed skating events.

Sergey Chervyakov

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

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.

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.

Sven-Erik Danielsson

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

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.

To mi radi

"To mi radi" is a song by the Sarajevo based pop band Crvena jabuka.

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.

Tony van Diepenbrugge

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

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.

Volkswagen Caddy

European Caddys were built in Volkswagen's plant TAS in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1982 till 1992.

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

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).

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.


Alexander Mayorov

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

Balkan Universities Network

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dusán Sžetzetižicž

Dusán Sžetzetižicž (born 8 December 1990 in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina), is a Bosnian football (soccer) player who currently plays in Italy for Sicilian club A.S.D. Castiglione.

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.

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.

İzmir 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 still exist and are called Sahat Kula (derived from the Turkish words Saat Kulesi, meaning Clock Tower.)

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.

Johann Fortner

While Fortner was based in Sarajevo, he visited the Bosnian National Museum and demanded that the museum custodians hand over a 14th-century illuminated Jewish manuscript known as the Sarajevo Haggadah.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

San Marino at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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

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.

Skakavac

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

Sreten Asanović

From 1957 to 1960, he was editor-in-chief of the Titograd (Podgorica) magazine Susreti; editor for the Sarajevo magazine Oslobođenje from 1960 to 1962; first editor-in-chief of the journal Odjek from 1963 to 1965; secretary of the Commission for Culture and Art in Belgrade from 1963 to 1965, and editor-in-chief of the Titograd magazine Stvaranje from 1973 to 1989.

Suada Dilberović

Serb snipers in a Holiday Inn hotel under the control of the Serbian Democratic Party in the heart of Sarajevo opened fire on the crowd killing six people and wounding several more.

Tuga ti i ja

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

Where the Stress Falls

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

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.