SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Latinska ćuprija [Latin
bridge]. This 16th century Ottoman bridge over the Miljacka river (called Principov most / Принципов мост by Serbs and during the Yugoslav era) is the oldest
of the city. Originally was wooden, and was replaced by a stone circa 1565.
Badly damaged by a flood on 15 November 1791, was rebuilt between 1798 and
1799. Beside him, on the right bank of the river, 28 June 1914 the Serbian
nationalist Gavrilo Princip carried out the attack that killed Franz Ferdinand
of Austria and his wife, regarded as the trigger for World War I.
Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2008.
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