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September 28, 2016
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A place unlike anywhere else in Europe. Life in Sarajevo but especially in the market in the 16th and 17th centuries was likely shocking, exotic, and perhaps bordering on incomprehensible to the Europeans who came to trade there. Sarajevo was …
September 28, 2016
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I’ve called Sarajevo a city of contrasts not because of the juxtaposition of old and new such as the remains of a 16th century inn excavated mere meters from our newly renovated hotel; nor because the city has always had a …
September 26, 2016
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The second siege of Mostar: June 1993 – April 1994. With plenty of help from the Croats, Mostar survived the JNA and the first siege but the Croatians had their own agenda. They wanted Bosnia and Herzegovina to be simultaneously …