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.
May 26: Ratko Mladić, the war crimes fugitive accused of orchestrating the Siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre, has been arrested in Serbia.
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.
Hemon also has a bi-weekly column, written and published in Bosnian, called "Hemonwood" in the Sarajevo-based magazine, BH Dani (BH Days).
Born in Sarajevo, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to wealthy father Đorđe Nikolić who had him when he was 62 years old, young Aleksandar enjoyed a privileged upbringing.
Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won the silver medal in the men's doubles event at Sarajevo in 1984.
Mayorov finished 14th in the individual event at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
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.
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.
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.
Australia competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
Intensive development occurred until 1930, when Koviljača's jurisdiction was changed to Drinska Banovina, the capital in Sarajevo.
After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, the Austrian Empire went to war with Serbia.
The General Secretariat of the Bishops' Conference has its headquarters in Sarajevo, Franjo Komarica, Bishop of Banja Luka, is the President.
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).
The Bosnian national final was held on 6 March 1999 at the Skenderija City Hall in Sarajevo, hosted by Segmedina Srna and Lejla Babović.
Slobodan “Braco” Dimitrijević was born on 18 June 1948 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia.
In Sarajevo, he evaluated a medical centre and starting a missing children project.
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.
Cyprus competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
Damir Krupalija (born June 13, 1979) is a Bosnian American professional basketball player born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia.
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.
During the 1990s he composed many works protesting against human rights abuses in our time and was twice honoured by the city of Sarajevo.
During 1994, the band performed at a festival held in the Italian town Rovigo, organized to raise funds for restoring the Sarajevo city library.
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.
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).
Erroll Canute Fraser (July 30, 1950 – December 24, 2002) was an ice speed skater from the British Virgin Islands, who represented his native country in at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia at the age of 33.
Finland competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
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.
Gani grew up in Serbia, attended a military academy in Sarajevo, and served in the Serbian army in early '20s, as well as aide-de-camp for Alexander I of Yugoslavia, and for a short time in Albania during 1925 after the June Revolution and Zogu coming into power.
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.
Competing in two Winter Olympics, Lemmerer earned his best finish of fifth in the men's doubles event at Sarajevo in 1984.
Iceland competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
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.
Born in 1928, he started Architectural Studies in Zagreb in 1947 and graduated in 1958 from the technical faculty in Sarajevo.
Ivana Gavrić (born in Sarajevo) is a British pianist.
She was born in Sarajevo and her mother was also an actress and a puppeteer.
Jeffrey Paul "Jeff" Hastings (born June 25, 1959, in Mountain Home, Idaho) was an American ski jumper who competed in the Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo in 1984.
Jelena Lolović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јелена Лоловић; born in Sarajevo, SR BiH, SFR Yugoslavia on July 14, 1981) is a Serbian alpine skier.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
During the 2007–08 season, Hill played five games with KK Bosna from Sarajevo and he then returned to Udine.
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 competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
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.
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.
In 2003, it established the regional advertising network TBWA Adriatic, established in 2003, with agencies in Zagreb, Belgrade, Sarajevo and Sofia.
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.
The Bosnian writer Meša Selimović wrote the book "The Dervish and Death" about a Mevlevi dergah in Sarajevo.
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.
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.
In 1947, he was ordered by communist authorities to join newly founded FK Sarajevo for which he played until 1949.
As part of the British element in the United Nations presence in war-torn Bosnia, he ran a Schindler's List-type operation smuggling Serb and Croat families out of besieged Sarajevo.
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).
Monaco competed in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
Competing in two Winter Olympics, Auer earned her best finish of 13th in the women's singles event at Sarajevo in 1984.
Morocco competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
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.
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Respecting the wishes of her father, she attended University of Sarajevo where she unsuccessfully attempted degrees in Law and Philology, English language.
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.
His parents, of Sephardic descent, lived in Sarajevo, Bosnia (then a part of the Ottoman Empire), where probably he was born, although in later life he pretended that he was a Palestinian emissary born in Safed.
On 29 January 2009, he was named vice-mayor of Bosnia-Herzegovina's capital, city of Sarajevo, working under mayor Alija Behmen.
Athletes from the Netherlands competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
Nijaz Ferhatović pronounced: (Niyaz Ferhatovich) (born March 12, 1955 in Sarajevo, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian defender who played for SFR Yugoslavia.
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.
Reiser was curator of the Zemaljski Muzej of Sarajevo, where it is possible to see his collection of birds of the Balkan Peninsula (about 10,000 specimens).
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.
Home games are played in the Mala dvorana Mirza Delibašić KSC Skenderija, Olimpijska dvorana Ramiz Salčin Mojmilo in Novi Grad, Sarajevo and the Velika dvorana Mirza Delibašić KSC Skenderija is used when the club is playing more important matches.
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).
Sarajevo International Culture Exchange (short:SICE) was an international art project annually taking place between 2003 and 2007 in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
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).
The School of Economics and Business (SEBS) is a business school affiliated with the University of Sarajevo.
She appeared in her first Olympics in 1984 in Sarajevo, competing in 500, 1,000, 1,500 and 3,000 m speed skating events.
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.
Chervyakov finished 12th in the individual event at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
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, Sarajevo, a waterfall near Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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.
The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
Spain competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
In addition, he was given special humanitarian assignments to Dubrovnik, Sarajevo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Vietnam and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
On 13 November 2003, he visited Sarajevo and issued another apology, this time to citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina on behalf of citizens of Serbia-Montenegro, for "any evil or calamity that anyone in Bosnia-Herzegovina suffered at the hands of anyone from Serbia-Montenegro".
Switzerland competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
"Tuga ti i ja" is a song released in 1989 by the Sarajevo-based pop band Crvena jabuka.
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.
He started his career in FK Pofalićki, a small club from Sarajevo.
He won the bronze medal in the two-man event at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
The Vraca Memorial Park is a park dedicated to the World War II victims in Sarajevo.
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
The essays vary between her experiences in the theater ("Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo") to book reviews.
The winner was decided by the votes of eight regional juries (Sarajevo, Zagreb, Skopje, Titograd, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Pristina and Novi Sad).
From January 2005 until January 2006, he played in Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina traditionally strongest club, FK Željezničar from the capital Sarajevo.
Zelene Beretke (English, "Green Berets") was a paramilitary organization founded in Sarajevo in early 1992.
He was killed during the Siege of Sarajevo while transporting wounded citizens to the nearby hospital.
Competing in four Winter Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the two-man event at Sarajevo in 1984.
Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, he is a younger brother of another Bosnian musician Fadil Redžić from band Indexi.
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Since the year 2000 she is a member of the Bushido karate club in Sarajevo.
Rector Faruk Čaklovica University of Sarajevo(Bosnia and Herzegovina), Member
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.
After graduation, Brooke played for the Yale University men's ice hockey team graduating in 1984 due to his hiatus to play international hockey as a member of the United States national team at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
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.
Whilst working for a variety of British newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer, the Sunday Telegraph, the Spectator, The Mail on Sunday and Tatler, she has written stories from such diverse places as Sarajevo, Moscow, Baghdad, Kabul and Rome.
Chile competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia after missing the 1980 Winter Olympics.
He made his debut with the Italy U-21 on 3 September 2010 in a qualification match against Bosnia Herzegovina played in Sarajevo.
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.
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.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
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.
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.
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.)
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.)
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.
Overseas, he has also served at Canada's embassies in Tel Aviv (Israel) and Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina).
Kopp also finished ninth in the four-man event at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
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).
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.
Jusufbegović was born in the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo.
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.
Pjer Žalica (born 7 May 1964 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian film director and a professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo.
Poland competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
San Marino competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
Skenderija also contributed lyrics to three albums of the cult Sarajevo techno-industrial band SCH (VRIL, 2002; Eat This!, 2004; and Dance, 2007).
Senegal competed in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
During that time the team of journalists from BBC came to Sarajevo and started to hang out with the band members.
In 1954 he was elected assistant professor, in 1961 as professor and in 1968 as tenured professor of the medical faculty in Sarajevo.
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.
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.
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.