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The Sarajevo metropolitan area is the largest agglomeration in Bosnia and Herzegovina, representing the wider area of the capital Sarajevo with an estimated population of 555,210 people. [ 1 ] It consists of Sarajevo Canton with a population of 413,593 inhabitants, East Sarajevo with 61,516 inhabitants and the municipalities of Breza , Kiseljak ...
During the 1970s, Sarajevo was undergoing a rapid economic and cultural development, with great expansion focused on population and industry. Novi Grad was a direct result of this period of heavy growth, in which many acres of previously unused land were transformed into socialist urban centres filled with apartment buildings. By the time the ...
The municipality of Stari Grad is characterized by its many religious structures, and examples of unique Bosnian architecture.The eastern half of Stari Grad consists of the Ottoman influenced sectors of the city, while the western half showcases an architecture and culture that arrived with Austria-Hungary, symbolically representing the city as a meeting place between East and West.
On the Bosnian market, following the 1992 Bosnian independence referendum, the bank began operations in November 1992 during the Siege of Sarajevo under the name Market Banka d.d. Sarajevo. In October 2000, Raiffeisen Bank International acquired Market Banka d.d. Sarajevo, and it became Raiffeisen Bank Bosna i Hercegovina d.d. Sarajevo (RZB BiH ...
Istočno Novo Sarajevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Источно Ново Сарајево, lit. 'East New Sarajevo') is a municipality of the city of Istočno Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is estimated that in 2020 it had a population of 11,990 inhabitants. [1] It is city proper of the city of Istočno Sarajevo and suburban part of the city of ...
Overall, during the Siege of Sarajevo (1992–95), Dobrinja was the most bombed neighbourhood of Sarajevo. In 1993 a mortar attack was conducted from Serb-held positions on a football game. 13 people died and over 130 were wounded. Most of Dobrinja lies west of the inter-entity boundary line, in the territory of Sarajevo Canton.
The communists invested heavily in Sarajevo, building many new residential blocks in Novi Grad Municipality and Novo Sarajevo Municipality, while simultaneously developing the city's industry and transforming Sarajevo once again into one of the Balkans' chief cities. From a post-war population of 115,000, by the fall of Yugoslavia Sarajevo had ...
On its north-west corner, the new British Embassy Sarajevo has been built. [2] Grbavica II, between Grbavica I and Hrasno, hosts the Grbavica Shopping Centre and the Ummu Arif Zabadne Mosque. South of Zagrebačka street are Grbavica Stadium, home of FK Željezničar, and the Catholic Church of St. Ignatius (Crkva Sv.Ignacija Lojolskog).