The second stop on our Balkan Odyssey was Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina, notorious for two violent events: as the place where Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was murdered by a Bosnian Serb, setting off WW1, and as the target of a murderous 1992-95 siege by Serbia. Now recovered and a favorite tourist destination, it is a most attractive city.
The Miljacka River flows through Sarajevo. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot on the corner of the pink and gray building, now a museum, at the left side of the bridge in this photo.
Two Moslem women, with a sleeping child, inspect bullet holes from the bombardment of Sarajevo during the siege.
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