The final message sent by the now-illegal radio station of the KPJ Local Committee for Sarajevo on the morning of April 6, 1945, was: “The city has been liberated, but Valter has died…” On April 6, 2014, Sarajevo celebrates the… Read More »Vladimir Perić Valter, a symbol, an authority, and an underground fighter
The Railway Workers’ Day of Yugoslavia was established in 1950, and the occasion was the general strike of railway workers of the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia. During the nights between April 15 and 16, 1920, railway traffic across the entire… Read More »Railway / Railway Workers’ Day in Former Yugoslavia
Visit of Emperor Franz Joseph I to Bosnia and Herzegovina / May 30 – June 4, 1910. During the period between the proclamation of the Bosnian Constitution in Sarajevo on February 20 and the opening of the National Assembly on… Read More »The visit of Emperor Franz Joseph I to Bosnia and Herzegovina
I am publishing rare aerial footage of the city of Sarajevo from 1954. It is very interesting to see the appearance and recognizable architecture of the city at that time, so that younger (and even older) generations can witness the… Read More »Aerial photographs of Sarajevo from 1954
The Mayor of Sarajevo, Ivo Komšić, today, July 17, 2014, opened the doors of the renovated Sarajevo City Hall, a symbol of the cultural identity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. “City Hall should be a multimedia center. The central hall could… Read More »The City Hall in Sarajevo, despite the passage of time
City – Horse-Drawn Traffic in Sarajevo (1885) The year is 1885. Austrian authorities in Sarajevo, after the construction of the old railway station (1882), come up with the idea of establishing a horse-drawn streetcar transportation. The means of public transport… Read More »Sarajevo Trams Through Time
“On August 1, 1978, the last remaining capacities of narrow-gauge railways in the Sarajevo railway hub were abolished, and from that day, the narrow-gauge rails and the ‘Ćiro’ locomotive for all time entered legend, or perhaps oblivion.” (Fevzija Ajdin –… Read More »A retrospective on Sarajevo’s urban railway during the Austro-Hungarian administration
At the very beginning, it should be noted that this text is not about the Croatian lawyer and politician Hinko Hinković (http://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinko_Hinkovi%C4%87), but about a railwayman-engineer, station master in Visegrad, and senior controller of the state railways Directorate Sarajevo, Hinko… Read More »Brief sketches from the life of Hinko Hinković, formerly Werbothen
At a recent gathering of collectors at “Ami Gallery” (Alta Shopping Center in Sarajevo), I noticed a flyer-invitation for an exhibition of caricatural portraits, specifically titled “Alija Hafizović, Sarajlije, Exhibition of Caricatural Portraits Sarajevo, Puppet Theater, foyer, October 22-29, 1976.”… Read More »Patriotic fervor at the drawing table of Alija Hafizović Haf
Between 1879 and 1916, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was largely responsible for building the narrow-gauge railway network that windingly traced the mountains and valleys of our Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the Kingdom of Yugoslavia era, the railway infrastructure for a 760… Read More »The train was (and remains) our national mother