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www.sarajevo.ba /bs /category /128 /1 The Sixth of April Sarajevo Award ( Bosnian : Šestoaprilska nagrada grada Sarajeva ; Croatian : Šestotravanjska nagrada grada Sarajeva ; Serbian Cyrillic : Шестоаприлска награда града Сарајева ) is the highest decoration given by the city of Sarajevo . [ 1 ]
Before the attack, the library held 1.5 million volumes and over 155,000 rare books and manuscripts. [6] Some citizens and librarians tried to save some books while they were under sniper fire, at least one person died. [6] Vedran Smailović playing the cello in the destroyed Vijećnica, 1992. The majority of the books could not be saved from ...
After heavy fighting, the city of Sarajevo was liberated on 6th of April. During the pursuit of the enemy, Yugoslav units liberated Visoko, Kakanj and on 10th of April Busovača, which concluded the Sarajevo operation.
This is a list of people who have served as mayor or president of the city council of the city of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.Sarajevo has had 39 different mayors in 40 different mayorships since the position was created on 22 August 1878, upon Austro-Hungarian occupation.
Sarajevo (/ ˌ s ær ə ˈ j eɪ v oʊ / SARR-ə-YAY-voh) [5] is the capital [6] and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. [7] [4] The Sarajevo metropolitan area including Sarajevo Canton, East Sarajevo and nearby municipalities is home to 555,210 inhabitants.
On 5 April 1992, in response to events all over Bosnia and Herzegovina 100,000 people of all nationalities turned out for a peace rally in Sarajevo. Serb Democratic Party (SDS) snipers in the Holiday Inn in the heart of Sarajevo opened fire on the crowd, killing six people and wounding several more.
[7] [8] Ultimately, the club's final completed match in the Yugoslav Championship was a 6–1 defeat on 29 March 1992 in Belgrade against Partizan. Players like Mario Stanić , Rade Bogdanović , Gordan Vidović , Suvad Katana and many others had days earlier went abroad to escape the horror of war, leaving it up to junior players to play out ...
The Sarajevo City Council (Bosnian: Gradsko vijeće Grada Sarajeva) is a 28-member elected body that scrutinises the activities of the mayor of Sarajevo and has the power, with a two-thirds super-majority, to amend the mayor's annual budget and to reject the mayor's draft statutory strategies. [4]