lunes, 11 de julio de 2011

Bosnia.


the country
Sarajevo
(1986)

across from the Holiday Inn
(center for correspondents during the war)

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Turkish cemetery

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shops

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footprints where the assassin, Gavrilo Princip, stood
to start World War I by shooting Archduke Ferdinand
(June 27, 1914)



a town of mosques and the flag
of the communist government

Husref Bay Mosque
(built in 1530 by Gazi Husref)



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old town

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the bridge
(destroyed in the 1990's war)

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the bridge in 1975

bridge in 1986

then a major tourist attraction

across the bridge

leading to the bridge

view of Mostar from the bridge

Poċitelj, a nearby Muslim town (photo from 1975)
which suffered destruction and ethnic cleansing during the 1993 war
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