independence of Basina set up snipers in the city of Sarajevo to kill helpless civilians in the streets. 3500 children alone were killed in the city. Bosnian Muslims suffered the same conditions like the Jews during World War 2. The Serbs did mass shootings, forced repopulation of entire towns, and sent Muslims to concentration camps. They also used the fear of rape to get families to flee their villages. After some broadcast of a market place in Sarajevo that was struck by Serbs with a mortar…
Turkey) and the Allies (U.S., Britain, France, Russia, Belgium, Serbia, Greece, Romania, Montenegro, Portugal, Italy, and Japan). About 10 million combatants killed, 20 million wounded. Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and wife assassinated in Sarajevo by Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip (June 28). Austria declares war on Serbia (July 28). Germany declares war on Russia (Aug. 1), on France (Aug. 3), invades Belgium (Aug. 4). Britain declares war on Germany (Aug. 4). Germans defeat…
Giulio Tamassia is a city spokesman for matters relating to Romeo and Juliet. He receives thousands of letters from people all over the world sent to Juliet. They write to Juliet about their tragic love stories. Giulio is a sort of spokesman for Juliet. He saves all of the letters and reads them and sometimes replies. Hala, the Saudi Arabian girl, wrote to Juliet about how she had fallen in love with the son of her family’s mortal enemy. She says that a long time ago her grandfather was…
After the death of Ina and Isak, Lola goes back to Sarajevo believing she was not going to make it alone, but finds herself in the place where her dad used to work and starts to remember good old memories she had with him. She finds Sava, “a kindly old man who had worked beside her father” (Brooks 77). After he recognizes her, they hugged and began to shed tears; he double checked the streets to make sure that no German soldier would see them. He gave her his coat and she told him the story with…
Kaimera Easley language arts Ms. nalls Essay Violence v.s peace In this day and age,there are some things goings on and when I say wars I mean wars between every race.Also blacks vs whites and white vs hispanics. There is also my acts of kindness would be to show people of all races that they are better…
Italy went to war with the Triple Entente, which was an alliance between Russia, France, and Britain. The war originally started between serbia and Austria/Hungary, when Serbia was accused of assassinating Austria/Hungary’s ArchDuke Ferdinand in Sarajevo. The causes of this dispute between the European alliances were the Alliances, the Treaty of Berlin, and last but not least, Militarism. For twenty years, the European countries had been creating alliances. Alliances were thought to be an…
religions Bosnia and Herzegovina are situated in the western Balkan Peninsula of Europe. The larger region of Bosnia occupies the northern and central parts of the country, and Herzegovina occupies the south and southwest. The capital of the country is Sarajevo. The region is divided into three ethnic groups that generally correspond to three major religions; Bosniaks and Islam; Serbs and Orthodox Christianity; Croats and Roman Catholicism. They all share the same South Slav heritage. The region…
The country of Serbia greatly affected the beginning of the First World War in many ways. Some claim that Serbia held the greatest amount of responsibility for the start of World War I. One of the major things that Serbia did to get people angry is that they were trying to expand their territory and they supported the Black Hand terrorist which was not a good combination. The Black Hand terrorist were a secret Serbian society who were planning the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand.…
million people and left twenty million wounded, happened exactly five years prior. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on the 28th of June in 1914. The great Prussian statesman Otto von…
Founded in November 1992, the bank began its operations as „Market banka dd Sarajevo“, a stock corporation of private shareholders owning shares above 90%. Today however, Raiffeisen bank in Bosnia i Herzegovina is a subsidiary, or as we like to call it „daughter company“, of Raiffeisen Bank International, abbreviated as RBI. Comprised of Eastern and Central Europe, RBI participates in 15 markets and is ranked as one of leading banks in the field. Having its products and services carefully…