FACTS ABOUT SARAJEVO THAT FEW PEOPLE KNOW

City of burek, baklava, kebabs, good songs and cordial people. All these are associations to the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and did you know that Sarajevo was the most developed city at the end of the 19th century? As if the first shopping center was opened here?

1. Sarajevo had public lighting as early as 1895.
2. In the same year, an electric tram was moving through this city – which was a rarity in the whole world at that time.
3. This city had its own water supply system before Vienna: the capital of Austria got its first water supply system in 1870, while on the other hand, the founder of Sarajevo, Isa-beg Ishaković, began to build the first water supply system in the city. be almost 55 km long.
4. That the first public toilet was built in 1526 in Kovači in Sarajevo, and the second in 1529 near the Bey’s mosque.
5. The Haggadah, a Jewish manuscript-painted codex created in the 14th century in northern Spain, which survived the Inquisition and all wars, is kept in the “National Museum” in Sarajevo.
6. The Bey’s Mosque was the first mosque in the world with electric lighting.
7. The Gazi Husrev-beg Library in Sarajevo is the oldest public library in BiH, operating without interruption since its founding in 1537.
8. In 1540, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina received the first shopping center that still exists today, it is a bezistan.
9. That the first cafe in Sarajevo was opened in the 16th century, immediately after the appearance of the first cafe in Istanbul.
10. Sarajevo is also called “European Jerusalem”, in which all monotheistic denominations live together in a small area.
11. Staka Skenderova was the first teacher in Sarajevo, who opened the first women’s school in the 19th century.
12. The Sarajevo assassination – the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia – was the immediate cause of the First World War.
13. The only city that belonged to the communist country where the Winter Olympic Games were held, the 14th in a row. 1984.
14. The Bosnian capital inherits the first beginnings of modern tourism in the former Yugoslavia – in 1879, the first organized provision of tourist services began.
15. Sarajevo is a city surrounded by Olympic mountains, from which you can ski in just 40 minutes.
16. The “Eternal Flame” flame, a monument to the military and civilian victims of World War II built in 1946, was extinguished only during the siege of Sarajevo due to a lack of fuel.
17. The National Theater in Sarajevo was built only three years after the First World War, in 1921.
18. Here is the Clock Tower, the only public clock in the world that measures lunar time.
19. Sarajevo at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century was one of the most modern cities of its time, because everything in it was built according to the highest valid standards.
20. The word Sarajevo comes from the Turkish compound “saray ovasi” which means court and the field around the court.