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Sarajevo - "Das ist Valter"
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ALOHA DEAN
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After World War I Sarajevo became part of the Kingdom of
Yugoslavia. Though it held some political importance, as the
center of first the Bosnian region and then the Drinska Banovina,
it was not treated with the same attention or considered as
significant as it was in the past. Outside of today's national
bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina, virtually no significant
contributions to the city were made during this period. During World War II the Kingdom of Yugoslavia put up a very inadequate defense. Following a German bombing campaign, Sarajevo was conquered by the Ustase Croatian fascist Independent State of Croatia. Many of the city's Serbs and Jews were taken at this time and killed in the Holocaust bringing a sad end to the prominence of Sarajevo's Jewish community. In 1941 the atrocities committed by the Ustase were strongly condemned by groups of Sarajevo's citizens. The Sarajevo resistance was led by a NLA Partisan named "Walter" Perić. Legend has it that when a new German officer came to Sarajevo and was assigned to find Walter, he asked his subordinate to show him Walter. The man took the officer to the top of a hill overlooking the city and said "See this city?", "Das Ist Valter". Walter was killed in the fighting on the day of Sarajevo's liberation, April 6, 1945. He has since become something of a city icon. Survival Map of Sarajevo 1992-1995 Following the liberation, Sarajevo was the capital of the republic of Bosnia within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The communists invested heavily in Sarajevo, building many new residential blocks in Novi Grad Municipality and Novo Sarajevo Municipality, while simultaneously developing the city's industry and transforming Sarajevo once again into one of the Balkans' chief cities. From a post-war population of 115,000, by the end of Yugoslavia Sarajevo had 429,672 people.
The National Library -VijecnicaBeginning in April 1992, Serbian nationalist attacks on Bosnian cities and towns deliberately and successfully targeted national libraries, museums and archives, in the process wiping out nearly the entire written record of Bosnia's history. Among the losses is Bosnia's National Library in Sarajevo, which also contained the university's holdings and the country's national archive of newspapers and periodicals. Prior to its destruction, the National Library held over 1.5 million volumes, including 155,000 manuscripts and rare books. It was bombarded for three days with incendiary grenades on August 25-27, 1992, and was reduced to ashes. The National Library was housed in the old town hall known as Vijecnica, a graceful Moorish revival building constructed in the heart of the city during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and inaugurated in 1896. (Link) The National Theatre SarajevoThe National Theatre Sarajevo was opened in November 1921. It was a great show of culture that lasted for three consecutive nights with performance of musical and drama shows. This institution also hosted many artistic ensembles and renowned solo performers from the whole world, giving the local audience an opportunity to see new and different interpretation of classical drama, opera and ballet works. Among others, the National Theatre hosted Luciano Pavaroti, Hose Careras, Zubin Mehta, Jehudi Meniuhin, and many other artists with the highest international rating. |
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Bijela TabijaThe Bijela Tabijarepresents a distinguished spot of fortress wall in complex of an old Vratnicki Grad, which dominates with its east town natural entrance gate. According to historians, available historical records presume that locality was a medieval fortress. On the oldest visible parts of the fortress there are still remains of valuable architectonic plastic constructed in rocks. Upper parts of Tabija were constructed in the period of Austria-Hungarian Monarchy. From the historical point of view as well as the constructive aspects, this fortress represents the most valuable fortification object in Vratnicki Grad complex. The priority is implementation of preservation measures. |
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Vraca Memorial Complex |
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The memorial complex ca (with the names of soldiers and victims of the fascistic terror during The Second World War, The cemetery of fallen Islamic soldiers in Vratnik (From the defense war 1992-1995), and other civilian cemeteries in Sarajevo tell the story of Sarajevo’s turbulent history. |
