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Definition: Sarajevo |
SarajevoNoun1. Capital and largest city of Bosnia; scene of the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand in 1914 which precipitated World War I. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sarajevo is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It currently has about 400,000 inhabitants.Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, the start of World War I.
Sarajevo was the host city for the 1984 Winter Olympic Games. It was devastated during the Bosnian War.
History
The first neolithic settlements in this area date back to the Butmir culture in the 3rd millennium BC.
Following neolithic people, the next known inhabitants were the Illyrian tribes in the 2nd millennium BC in Zlatiste and Soukbunar regions.
Illyrian tribes were fighting against the Romans for several centuries, until they were defeated in the year 9. As a part of the Roman Empire, the Sarajevo valley was an important road connecting the Adriatic coast with Panonia.
Roman presence can be detected in several localities, including Debelo Brdo, where military posts were held until the 6th century, Ilidza, the administrative and cultural center of this area, and Crkviste, Stupsko Brdo, Crkvina, Svrakino Selo, Marijin Dvor, and Vasiljeva Basca, to name a few.
During the civil war of the 1990s (see History of Bosnia and Herzegovina) a main street was known as Sniper's Alley.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sarajevo."
Crosswords: Sarajevo |
| Non-English Usage: "Sarajevo" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (Sarajevo). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Valter brani Sarajevo (1972) Sarajevo (1957) Omladinska pruga Samac - Sarajevo (1947) De Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940) Sarajevo (1940) | |
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 | Natives in market place, Sarajevo, Bosnia, Austria-Hungary. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | What was your first reaction? Vukovar 91, Mogadishu 93, Sarajevo 92 ... / / Maria Dujmovic Kondres. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Sarajevo" by Karoly Feher Commentary: "It's a picture of the part of post war Sarajevo. 6 years after the Dayton agreement." |
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Civil Liberties | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Schools in Sarajevo canton, except for non-Bosniak schools, offer only Islamic religion classes. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Dnevni Avaz, which owns the only independent printing house in Sarajevo, is the highest circulation daily in the country. (references) | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Reduced to only a Sarajevo broadcaster, in September OBN announced the formation of an independent network with NTV, a station in Banja Luka. (references) | |
Economic History | Bosnia and Herzegovina | World War I began when Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo. (references) |
Serbia and Montenegro | Serb animosity against the Hapsburgs reached a climax on June 28, 1914, when the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo by a Bosnian Serb, Gavrilo Princip--the spark that lit the powder keg of World War I. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | In Sarajevo delays persisted due to the large backlog of cases, but political manipulation and obstruction decreased. (references) |
Minorities | Bosnia and Herzegovina | On May 9, approximately 20 Bosniaks stoned a house inhabited by Serbs in Sarajevo. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | On June 3, a group of Muslim youths harassed Catholic seminary students in front of the Catholic cathedral in Sarajevo. (references) | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | On May 28, a Muslim woman walking with her husband and children physically and verbally assaulted a Catholic nun in central Sarajevo. (references) | |
Women | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Centers for abused women were created in the District of Brcko, Bihac and Sarajevo based on the successful a model in Zenica in the Federation. (references) |
Worker Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Romani children are often seen begging on the streets in Sarajevo. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sarajevo authorities have successfully prosecuted two suspected traffickers on charges of promoting prostitution. (references) | |
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| "Sarajevo" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.79% of the time. "Sarajevo" is used about 478 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 99.79% | 477 | 12,448 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.21% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 478 | N/A |
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Beginning with "Sarajevo": Sarajevo-edinburgh. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Sarajevo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 萨拉热窝. (various references) | |
Danish | Sarajevo. (various references) | |
Dutch | Sarajevo. (various references) | |
Finnish | Sarajevo. (various references) | |
French | Sarajevo. (various references) | |
German | Sarajewo. (various references) | |
Greek | Σαράγεβο· Σεράγεβο. (various references) | |
Italian | Sarajevo. (various references) | |
Korean | 사라예보. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arajevosay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Sarajevo. (various references) | |
Spanish | Sarajevo. (various references) | |
Swedish | Sarajevo. (various references) | |
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Misspellings | |
"Sarajevo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sarajavo, sarajevan, saravejo, Serajevo. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-j-o-r-s-v" | |
-2 letters: svaraj. | |
-3 letters: areas, arose, arvos, avers, javas, oaves, overs, rajas, rajes, raves, roves, saver, savor, servo, soave, varas, verso. | |
-4 letters: aero, ajar, area, ares, arse, arvo, asea, aver, aves, avos, ears, eras, eros, jars, java, joes, oars, ores, osar, over, raja, rase, rave, revs, roes, rose, rove, save, sear, sera, soar, soja, sora. | |
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