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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.

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.

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.

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.

Alexander Prosvirnin

Prosvirnin finished sixth in the individual event at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

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.

Ante Prkačin

In January 2009, Prkačin testified as a witness before a court in Sarajevo regarding the 1999 assassination of Jozo Leutar, the then-Minister of Internal Affairs of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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.

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.

Buck Danny

Like this, the series reads as a chronology of military aviation as well as the events that were catching people's imagination at the time of publishing, ranging from the Korean war, the cold war, UFO's international terrorism and drug running, the space race, rogue atomic bombs, the collapse of the Soviet bloc and recently the conflicts in Sarajevo and Afghanistan.

Care Highway

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

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.

Chile at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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

Claudia Tenney

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

Czechoslovakia at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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

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.

David Wilde

During the 1990s he composed many works protesting against human rights abuses in our time and was twice honoured by the city of Sarajevo.

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.

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).

Dilaver Zrnanović

Dilaver Zrnanović (born November 17, 1984 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian footballer who most recently played for Simurq.

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.

Elizabeth Wellburn

It tells a fictionalized story based on the real musician, Vedran Smailovic adding the character of a young boy who learns to cope in the aftermath of war 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.

Gertrud Leistikow

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

Gordan Vidović

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mexico at the 1984 Winter Olympics

One alpine skier from Mexico competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

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 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.

Miramare Castle

From March 9 to April 11, 1914, the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand lived in the castle with his wife and sons and gave hospitality to the Prussian Emperor William; two months later the archduke was assassinated at Sarajevo.

Mirza Jelečak

Mirza Jelečak (born 2 March 1983 in Sarajevo) is a retired Bosnian-born Swedish footballer who last played for IK Sirius as a midfielder.

Mirza Kapetanović

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

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

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

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.

New Zealand at the 1984 Winter Olympics

New Zealand competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

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.

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.

Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Princess Maria Annunciata Isabella Filomena Sabasia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, full Italian name: Maria Annunziata Isabella Filomena Sabasia, Principessa di Borbone delle Due Sicilie (24 March 1843 – 4 May 1871) was the mother of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the archduke whose assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 precipitated the start of World War I.

Raymond H. A. Carter

He joins then the United-Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2000 as Head of the International Police Task Force High Commissioner’s cabinet of the high-commissioner; he will take, in particular, the lead of the anti-terrorism cell of Nations United in Sarajevo there and will also work against the Transnational Organized Crime prevention and war crimes and crimes against humanity.

RK Bosna Sarajevo

RK Bosna Sarajevo is a team handball club based in Centar Sarajevo, Sarajevo Canton, the capital of Bosnia.

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.

Robert Low

Low was war correspondent in Vietnam and also several other locations, including Sarajevo, Romania and Kosovo, until "common-sense, age and the concerns of my wife and daughter prevailed".

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.

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 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.

Sedin Torlak

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

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.

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.

Skakavac

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

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 Janjuš

Slobodan "Čobo" Janjuš (born January 7, 1952 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian former football goalkeeper.

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.

Spain at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Spain 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.

Tony van Diepenbrugge

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

TRIO Sarajevo

TRIO Sarajevo is a graphic design group based in Sarajevo.

Tuga ti i ja

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

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.

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.

Vraca Memorial Park

The Vraca Memorial Park is a park dedicated to the World War II victims in Sarajevo.

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.

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.

Zoran Redžić

Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, he is a younger brother of another Bosnian musician Fadil Redžić from band Indexi.


1996 Sarajevo tram attack

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

Balkan Universities Network

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

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.

Centar

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

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.

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.

Đorđe Novković

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

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).

Greece at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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

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.

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.

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.)

Jasna Diklic

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

Rrahman Morina

Raif Dizdarević, Od smrti Tita do smrti Jugoslavije (Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 2000)

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.

Vladimir Aleksandrov

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

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.