Srednjovjekovni grad Ključ u zimskom ambijentu! (Medieval town Kljuc in winter ambience)
The Old Town Ključ, in historical documents better known as Ključ on Sana, is the pearl of the medieval Bosnian heritage and architecture and represents a priceless cultural richness of great historical value.
In addition to numerous specificities, this building is also known for one important event. Within its walls, on 25th of May the last Bosnian king Stjepan Tomašević handed over Bosnia to the powerful Ottoman Empire.
Old Town Ključ is situated on high and steep cliffs along the left bank of the Sana River. All facilities in the town were walled from the north, while they are naturally well-protected from the south, with a deep chasm. These facilities represent the oldest city core, blended with the unique system of walls.
The town played an important role in history and politics of the medieval Bosnian state and its masters were the powerful nobility from the Sana valley, Hrvatinići, who belonged to the Bosnian church.
However, the reason why this town remains permanently inscribed in the books of history is the fact that it was the last refuge of the last Bosnian king Stjepan Tomašević and the place where the medieval Bosnian state, facing the invasion by a much stronger and superior opponent, was handed over to the Ottomans, for multicentennial administration.
Precisely this “last episode” of the Bosnian kingdom is the reason why Ključ is still called the royal town.
“Fleeing from Jajce, Stjepan Tomašević came to the medieval town Ključ on Sana, believing it is a very well-fortified town and that he will not be forced to surrender to the Ottoman army. It is even mentioned that his half brother and half sister, Katarina and Sigismund, also stayed with him in Ključ. Stjepan surrendered to the great vizier Mahmut pasha, who was sent to Ključ by the sultan Medmed El-Fatih to lead a military operation for the conquest of the town. The vizier previously promised to the king Stjepan that he will spare his life if he hands Bosnia over!
After king Stjepan did it, on 25th of May 1463, Mahmut pasha captivated Stjepan and took him to Jajce to the sultan Mehmed el-Fatih, who forced him to sign an order for all commanders to surrender the cities to the Ottomans. At the same time, with the assistance of the head Mufti of the empire who convinced him that he does not have to respect promises given by his inferiors, sultan Mehmed El-Fatih declared the oath by Mahmut pasha invalid and executed the king in his headquarters in Jajce on June 5, together with king’s uncle Radivoje and many Bosnian noblemen.
“In addition to the fact that the last Bosnian king surrendered in Ključ, also interesting is that a very strong resistance was offered to the Austro-Hungarians here, when they invaded these areas in 1878. As much as 314 soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian army were killed and wounded. Many domestic folks were killed as well, but there are no detail data on that. Thus, Ključ is known as one of the places where significant events in the history occurred,” Prof. Alibegović said.
Medieval town Ključ na Sani brings specificities and is a symbol of recognition after numerous historical events which occurred within its walls. If not for anything else, its historical “weight” gives this town the right to be high on the list of potential future visits and tourist destinations.
streets of kljuc, bosnia
streets of the city of kljuc in bosnia
Kljuc,Bosnia..Sana/Kljuc Airlines(HQ)
Simon&Garfunkel(El Condor Pasa),Lyrics
I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail.
Yes I would.
If I could,
I surely would.
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.
Yes I would.
If I only could,
I surely would.
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CHORUS
Away, I'd rather sail away
Like a swan that's here and gone
A man get tied up to the ground
He gives the earth
It's saddest sound,
It's saddest sound.
I'd rather be a forest than a street.
Yes I would.
If I could,
I surely would.
I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet,
Yes I would.
If I only could,
I surely would
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Kamicak
Kamičak (Littlestone Village) is a village in the municipality of Ključ, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located between the towns of Ključ and Sanski Most in the northwest of Bosnia. The village is made of two parts Gornji Kamičak (Upper Littlestone) and Donji Kamičak (Lower Littlestone). Gorgeous River Sana flows through the village, a tributary of River Una (known as Beauty of Krajina region). Kamičak is mainly known by its Old Ottoman Castle located in one of its hamlets of Stari Grad (Old Town) and the beautiful banks, cliffs and fly fishing in the Sana River.
Kljuc BiH 2018 Mart
Kljuc BiH 2018Mart
Bosnian road M-5 (03. Pale town - Prača village)
Journey through Bosnia and Herzegovina, along the state road M-5.
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This video begins at the exit from Pale town toward Prača village.
Then it goes over Stambulčić hill saddle (through the old railway tunnel Stambulčić), and descends through several villages toward Prača village.
The video ends in Prača village.
The video was recorded on 15.04.2013., using a GoPro Hero HD 1 video camera mounted on the outer side of the front windscreen of a Fiat Panda 4x4 Mk1 car.
Audio recording has been discarded because it contains only wind noises.
Szrebernik vára / Medieval Fortress of Srebrenik / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Szrebernik vára, Bosznia-Hercegovina / Srebrenik Fortress, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Steep, winding and narrow roads in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Many of the homes in Sarajevo are built on hills so there are a lot of steep and narrow roads. Shot in December 2006.
Bosnian road M-5 (03. Passing through Travnik town)
Journey through Bosnia and Herzegovina, along the state road M-5.
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This video begins at the entrance into a large Travnik town, from the eastern side (from Zenica city).
The video then goes through Travnik town (along the main road), toward west.
The video ends at the western exit from Travnik town, toward Donji Vakuf town.
The video was recorded on 20.03.2013., using a GoPro Hero HD 1 video camera mounted on the outer side of the front windscreen of a Volkswagen Polo Mk5 car.
Audio recording has been discarded because it contains only wind noises.
Bosnia - Exhumation Of Mass Graves
T/I: 10:38:57
Bosnian forensic experts on Monday (8/7) began examining three mass graves in the area of Vogosca, 12 km west of Sarajevo. The mass graves are located in Muslim cemetries where the bodies were allegedly dumped by Bosnian Serb soldiers after they were either shot or clubbed to death. Among the villagers who came to witness the exhumation was Hamid Music, who witnessed the murder of his brother and helped bury the dead.
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VOGOSCA, BOSNIA, 8/7
Men digging in mass grave
Man with spade pushing foot
CU old man looking on
Men preparing coffins
Hamid Music speaking in Bosnian: They beat them with pieces of wood and metal rods and gun-butts. The cracked his head, broke his legs and hands and ribs and his guts was spilling out his clothes. They buried them on 15 December 1992 and we had a funeral already
here at that time and I was one of the six people who had to bury them here.
WS grave with bodies
Preparing coffin
People watching
Men digging
CU digging
Woman with head in hands
Digger putting tooth in skull
Women looking on
People digging
CU skull
Bodies
Women crying
Skull
Music watching
PAN people digging grave
Bulldozer near cemetery
Crowds looking on
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Bosnia and Herzegovina | Basic Information | Everyone Must Know
#bosniaandherzegovina #countryinformation #firstworldpeoples Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe. Its countryside is home to medieval villages, rivers and lakes, plus the craggy Dinaric Alps. National capital Sarajevo has a well preserved old quarter, Bašcaršija, with landmarks like 16th-century Gazi Husrev-bey Mosque.
Ottoman-era Latin Bridge is the site of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which ignited World War I.
Sarajevo is the capital and largest city. Bordered by Croatia to the north, and west; Serbia to the east; Montenegro to the southeast; and the Adriatic Sea to the south, with a coastline about 20 kilometres (12 miles) long surrounding the town of Neum. In the central and eastern interior of the country the geography
is mountainous, in the northwest it is moderately hilly, and the northeast is predominantly flatland. The inland is a geographically larger region and has a moderate continental climate, with hot summers and cold and snowy winters. The southern tip of the country has a Mediterranean climate and plain topography.
Bosnia-Herzegovina is recovering from a devastating three-year war which accompanied the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.The 1992-1995 conflict centred on whether Bosnia should stay in the Yugoslav Federation, or whether it should become independent.It is now an independent state, but under international
administration. Its three main ethnic groups are Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), Croats and Serbs. The war left Bosnia's infrastructure and economy in tatters.
Around two million people - about half the population - were displaced.The 1995 Dayton peace agreement set up two separate entities; a Bosniak-Croat Federation of Bosnia and Hercegovina, and the Bosnian Serb Republic, or Republika Srpska, each with its own president, government, parliament, police and other bodies.
Overarching these entities is a central Bosnian government and rotating presidency.In February 2016 the country formally requested to join the European Union.
Bosnia - Mass Graves
T/I 10:45:10
Bosnian forces have unearthed at least one three-year-old mass
grave in territory recaptured a week ago from the Bosnian Serbs.
The grim discovery was made on Friday (22/9) by Bosnian Government
forces in a wood at at Crvena Zemlja, near Krasulje, approximately
10 kms from Sanski Most. The grave contained scores of bodies
which they say belong to muslims from the town of Kljuc and the
surrounding area.
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KLUCJ, BOSNIA 24/9
Bosnian soldiers enter grave site/
soldiers dig in grave/
soldiers loking into cave/
soldiers leaving cave/
soldier digging/
skull and human remains/
cu boot and bone/
cu human remains/
soldier with shovel and pan to grave/
soldier digging/
cu bones/
soldiers talking, pan to grave/
soldiers entering cave/
soldier with torch inspecting cave/
vs of soldiers waiting outside cave
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Bosnian road R-444 (02. Breza town - Podlugovi village)
Journey through Bosnia and Herzegovina, along the regional road R-444.
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The video begins at the entrance into Breza town from Vareš town.
The video then goes through Breza town, continuing toward Podlugovi village.
The video ends in Podlugovi village, just before entering onto highway A1.
The video was recorded on 28.04.2013., using a GoPro Hero HD 1 video camera mounted on the outer side of the front windscreen of a Fiat Panda 4x4 Mk1 car.
Audio recording has been discarded because it contains only wind noises.
STARI GRAD KLJUČ - GACKO.
Prvi pisani dokument u kojem se spominje grad Ključ je Povelja Sandalja Hranića od 28. decembra 1410. godine, datis in castro Cluz, a odnosi se na prodaju grada Ostrovice Mlečanima. Grad Ključ se spominje 1426. godine kao prijestolnica velikog vojvode Sandalja i kasnije hercega Stjepana Vukčića Kosače. Sandalj Hranić je pisao u Ključu pismo Dubrovčanima, datirano 8. jula 1429. godine. Također su zabilježeni boravci Sandalja Hranića u Ključu i Cernici u martu i maju 1430. godine. Iz tog vremena je i nekoliko stećaka, od kojih je i stećak, koji je 1960. godine prenesen u Vojni muzej u Beogradu. Nakon smrti Sandalja Hranića 1435. godine trebalo je obnoviti ugovore između njegovog nasljednika Stefana Vukčića Kosače i Dubrovčana. Neki od pregovora vodili su se u Ključu. U aprilu 1443. godine vojvoda Stjepan diktira u Ključu dijaku Vukši potvrdu o prijemu naslijeđa od Jelene, žene Sandaljeve. U širem smislu podgrađe Ključa je bila Cernica, koja se od karavanske stanice razvila u trg sa carinarnicom.
Osmanlije su osvojile grad između septembra 1468. i maja 1469. godine. Poslije potpisanog mira u Sremskim Karlovcima 1699. godine Ključ je postao sjedište kapetanije koja je zauzimala najveće dijelove teritorija današnjih općina Gacko i Bileća, a poklapala se sa teritorijom Cerničkog kadiluka.
Utvrđenje u Ključu napušteno je pred austrougarsku okupaciju.
Stari grad Ključ i Ključka džamija (Džamija Ajnebeg-dede, Džamija ključkih kapetana ili Starica) sa haremom proglašen je za nacionalni spomenik. [1]
Bosnia - Situation Update
Approximately 50 rounds of heavy fire were exchanged on Friday
(13/5) after U.N. military observers left Celic, seven kilometres
from the Serb - held town of Brcko. At last report, Bosnian Serbs
were 150 metres away from frontline positions. Celic and the area
around it is inhabited by 15,000 Bosnian Muslims and Croats.
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13/5 CELIC, NEAR BRCKO, BOSNIA (GOVERNMENT ARMY SIDE)
ws celic village
ws serb house (white house) which according to Bosnian military
officers is where Serb artillery is positioned
bosnian soldier pointing to serb positions from hill
woman and child at front door of house
sound of heavy fire as crew runs for cover
bosnian soldiers inspecting damaged warehouse
bosnian government positions
gun aimed at serb positions
13/5 OBUDOVAC, NEAR BRCKO (SERBIAN ARMY SIDE)
Bosnian Serb soldiers sitting under a camouflage cover at the
frontline position
soldier at anti-aircraft machine-gun
soldiers walking along the trenches
sign saying:No trespassing
soldiers in trenches carrying boxes of ammo, sounds of gunshots in
the background
soldiers in trenches on front line
running on the open field between two trenches fearing sniper fire
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Bosnian road M-17 (05. Jablanica town - Salakovac tunnel)
Journey through Bosnia and Herzegovina, along the state road M-17.
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This video begins at intersection between roads M-17 (straight on toward Mostar city) and M-16.2 (right turn toward Prozor town) in Jablanica town.
Later on it goes through the magnificent canyon of Neretva river, situated between Prenj mountain (to the left/east) and Čvrsnica mountain (to the right/west).
The video ends at the exit from Salakovac tunnel, which also represents the exit from the canyon of Neretva river, and the entry point into the Mostar valley.
The video was recorded on 13.05.2013., using a GoPro Hero HD 1 video camera mounted on the outer side of the front windscreen of a Volkswagen Polo Mk5 car.
Audio recording has been discarded because it contains only wind noises.
Lukomir Bosnian village at 1495m
Timelapse over the village of Lukomir, Bosnia and Herzegovina. At 1495m Lukomir is the highest and most isolated village in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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