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Sarajevo
[ sar-uh-yey-voh; Serbo-Croatian. sah-rah-ye-vaw ]
noun
- a city in and the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the central part: assassination of the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand here June 28, 1914, was the final event that precipitated World War I.
Sarajevo
/ ˈɛɔ /
noun
- the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina: developed as a Turkish town in the 15th century; capital of the Turkish and Austro-Hungarian administrations in 1850 and 1878 respectively; scene of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, precipitating World War I; besieged by Bosnian Serbs (1992–95). Pop: 603 000 (2005 est)
Sarajevo
1- The city in Bosnia and Herzegovina where the assassination that brought on World War I took place. Archduke Francis Ferdinand , the heir to the throne of the Austrian Empire, had come to Sarajevo on a state visit; Sarajevo was then in one of the South Slavic provinces of the Austrian Empire. A young student who favored South Slavic independence shot and killed the archduke. Austria held the assassin's home country, Serbia, responsible for the incident and declared war; complex European alliances then brought other countries into the fight.
Sarajevo
2- Capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina .
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Maybe like the musicians who endured the siege of Sarajevo in 1992 and still performed on the front lines, they too could shake their fists at the universe, at the forces of chaos and destruction.
She chairs the missing persons association in the town of Ilijas, near Sarajevo.
During the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s, however, the hold was more permeable, and some assistance and trade reached the populations, helping to prevent famine.
Among the interested parties was John Freeman, the writer, literary critic and executive editor at Knopf, who was teaching in Paris that summer and planning to fly to Sarajevo for a book festival.
“The tragedy which has just taken place in Sarajevo,” he wrote, “will not, I trust, lead to further complications.”
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