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On Sunday, 28 June 1914, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were killed in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Gavrilo Princip.  |
Vjetrenica (which means "wind cave" or "blowhole") is the largest and most important cave in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and one of the most interesting caves in the Dinaric Alps mountain range, which is famous worldwide for its karstic and speleological riches. Its entrance it not far from the village of Zavala in southern Herzegovina. In the warmer parts of the year a strong blast of cold air blows from its entrance, which is very attractive in the middle of the rocky, hot and waterless terrain. |
The Stećci, are monumental medieval tombstones that lie scattered across Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the border parts of Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. An estimated 60,000 are found within the borders of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the rest of 10,000 are found in Croatia, Serbia, and Montenegro. Appearing in the 11th century, the stećci reached their peak in the late 14th to 15th centuries, before dying away during the Ottoman occupation. |
Stari Most (English: Old Bridge) is a 16th century Ottoman bridge in the city of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina that crosses the river Neretva and connects two parts of the city. The Old Bridge stood for 427 years, until it was destroyed on November 9, 1993 during the Croat-Bosniak War. Subsequently, a project was set in motion to reconstruct it, and the rebuilt bridge opened on July 23, 2004. |
Prelog was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, at that time within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to Croatian parents who were working there. |
The International Council for Bird Preservation listed Hutovo Blato on its list of important bird habitats. Hutovo Blato is the largest bird reserve in this part of Europe both by its size and diversity of birds. The reserve is a sub-Mediterranean swamp, surrounded by the Daran Lake, and is a home to 240 migratory bird species, as well as dozens of other birds. |
Perucica is the largest preserved rainforest in Europe, it is protect by law and locate within the Sutjeska National Park. |
Haggadah is the Jewish book of rites (codex), a collection of Biblical stories, prayers and psalms related to Pesah (Passover), the holiday to mark liberation of Jews from Egyptian slavery. The book illuminations match the contents. The Sarajevo Haggadah, written on fine parchment, represents the oldest and most beautiful example of this type of book of codes; it represents the work of the 14th century Spanish art of illumination with noticeable influence of Italian and French contemporary art of the time. |
Ivo Andric (October 9, 1892 – March 13, 1975) was a Bosnia and Herzegovina novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature with book Na Drini cuprija (The Bridge on the Drina). Andric was born on October 9, 1892, to a Catholic family of Bosnian Croats in the village of Dolac near Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then part of the Ottoman Empire, under control of Austria-Hungary. Ivo Andric received in 1961 the Nobel Prize in literature for the book The Bridge on the Drina, where the author describes the life of this region in which East and West have for centuries clashed with their interests and influences, a region whose population is composed of different nationalities and religions. His native house in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been transformed into a Museum and is open for visiting. |
The fact is, it is a monumental pyramid in Visoko near Sarajevo. The only one in Europe for now. Without a doubt, it is an object that will become the most important symbol of this European region since the beginning of civilizations. |
Danis Tanovic (born February 20, 1969) is an acclaimed Oscar and Golden Globe winning film director of the 2001 Bosnian movie “No Man's Land”. In total, No Man's Land won 42 awards, including the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, the European Film Academy Award for Best Screenplay, the Cesar for the Best First Feature film in 2001 and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002. Upon international theatrical release, the film was embraced by critics and those who went to see it, for its darkly humorous and gripping tale on the absurdity of war. |
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