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Sarajevo

Sarajevo

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The capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • proper noun
  • /ˌsɑːrəˈjeɪvoʊ/
: Sarajevo
  • Thanks to the media, Sarajevo has become the focal point of the Bosnian warfare.
  • the city of Sarajevo
  • Sarajevo in 1914
  • the siege of Sarajevo

Where I've been in Sarajevo, there aren't no traffic lights.

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Examples

  • In 1992, the Astronomical Observatory of Sarajevo was used by Bosnian Serb tanks for target practice and was demolished.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Reporting live from Sarajevo, this is Jean Rogers for CNN.

    The Peacemaker (1997)

  • You say this train goes to Sarajevo, no stops?

    Force 10 from Navarone (1978)

  • Tell me what happened in Sarajevo.

    Ice Princess (2005)

  • "Sometimes I dream of Sarajevo," she said, "but in my dreams it is always beautiful and peaceful."

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The siege of Sarajevo was the longest in modern history.

    In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)

  • I have a painting hanging at the Sarajevo Municipal Gallery.

    In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)

  • During the first attacks on the city of Sarajevo, the observatory was completely destroyed.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Now, after Ferdinand's assassination, I visited Gavrilo Princip in his prison in Sarajevo.

    The King's Man (2021)

  • Reporting live from Sarajevo, this is Jean Rogers for CNN.

Surface Forms

Sarajevo main

Etymology

Sarajevo comes from the Turkish word saray meaning 'palace' plus the Slavic ending -evo meaning 'place of'. So the name means 'place of the palace', which helps you remember that the city was once an important center under Turkish rule.