This blog has a collection of mosques in different shapes and conditions all over Bosnia. However, be aware of the hyper-religious Islamic theme. Though the majority of Bosnians are Muslim including 80% of them settling in Sarajevo, I’ve never considered Bosnia as an Islamic country. [Link]
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If He Had Not Been in Sarajevo
The Russian Empire might not have fallen, and Bolshevik-style communism would not have risen to hold sway over so much of the world. Hitler would possibly have lived out his life as a paper-hanger and failed painter. Perhaps the Austro-Hungarian Empire would have survived, being reformed along the lines of the heir apparent in 1914, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Jun. 28, 1914
Archduke France Ferdinand was assassinated today 93 years ago in Sarajevo. This act triggered a chain of event leading to World War I. [audio:http://media.premier.org.uk/pkandyou/MOD_pkandyou_20070628.mp3] [Link]
Read the rest of this entry »Kosovo Serbs
I find it strangely inexplicable that after all the hysterical, ballistic, emotional response Serbians and its government made about Kosovo: the “heart and soul” of Serbia, the land of the legendary King Lazar and Serbia’s heavenly kingdom, a city without which there is no Serbia, yet when it comes to Kosovo Serbs, the tale is [...]
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I never thought nor heard any comment associating Sarajevo to the city of Boston in USA. Sarajevo is a city on the mend. New construction, chic European stores and all the ice cream one could ever eat make for a happy façade to this city that saw over 1400 days of conflict just a decade [...]
Read the rest of this entry »German Forces Post Office in Sarajevo – DHL Customers
DHL’s article As a rule, the length of an overseas deployment is four months of German soldiers; four long months without a family and without home leave. For many soldiers serving in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Uzbekistan, Georgia or Afghanistan, the German forces post office is the only link. There is a German forces post office at [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Bosnia on Global Peace Ranking Scale
Bosnia ranks 74th on the list of 121 featured countries behind Slovenia (15), Croatia (67) and before Macedonia (82), Serbia (83). The most and least peaceful countries are Norway and Iraq respectively. Some of the criteria used to for the evaluation are political instability, UN-deployment, women in parliament, percentage of males from 15-34 years old, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Yugoslav Rambo Amadeus
Jack-of-all-trade, master of quite a few, Rambo Amadeus is a talented guitarist, pianist, song writer, composer, boat sailing champ from former Yugoslavia. He is known for his dry-witted and jovial song with weird lyrics, many of which making fun of his people and society. A true representative of Yugoslavia having a Serbian mother and Croat-Montenegrin [...]
Read the rest of this entry »A Little Spa at Ilidza
The river Bosnia appears under mount Igman at Ilidza, creating an ideal spot for recreation in Sarajevo. Only here can you find the Austro-Hungarian style of riding on horse wagons. [picture source]
Read the rest of this entry »Zoran Djindjic, Serbia’s Short Dream
This rebellious intellect was born in 1952 in Bosanski Samac, a town of Bosnia-Herzegovina. He criticized Communism and led protests against Tito’s government which resulted in his jail time in Slovenia in his twenties. After the release, he left Serbia to continue his Philosophy study in Germany. Upon returning to Yugoslavia, he taught university courses [...]
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