Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, old city, clock tower
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Beautiful Sarajevo, Old Town | Bosnia & Herzegovina
A few images from my recent trip to Sarajevo Old Town (Bosnian pronunciation: Stari Grad], a municipality in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the oldest and most historically significant part of Sarajevo. Images include the Latin Bridge, Cathedral of Sacred Jesus Hearth, chess players in Liberation Square, the Multicultural Man Builds the World sculpture by Italian artist Francesco Perilli, Congregational Church of the Holy Mother, Eternal Flame Memorial, National & University Library, Sarajevo Clock Tower, Gazi Husrev-bey Mosque, Kazandžiluk street (Coppersmith's street), and Baščaršija, Sarajevo's old bazaar and the historical and cultural center of the city.
Sarajevo is a warm and wonderful place to visit, make sure you put it on your bucket list...
Shot with the Lumix GH4 and edited by Dan Perez Films
Music by Scott Holmes
Special thanks to our tour guide Ahmed Lavić of
Sarajevo 1975 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an Austrian filmmaker while touring Yugoslavia during the summer of 1975.
It contains stock footage of Emperor's Mosque, the clock tower in Baščaršija (Sahat Kula), the place where, in 1914, one Serbian child killed Franz Ferdinand of Austria Hungary and started world war I, actors preparing for the film The Day That Shook the World, and more.
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The last timekeeper of Bosnia
Mensur Zlatar who has been setting the clock to the lunar calendar for the last 50 years is the last muwaqqit of Sarajevo's Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque.
Proms... a walk trough Sarajevo Old town
Proms in Gazihusrev-bey Islamic college.
Gazi- Husrev-bey, 1480 - 1541 was Turkish governor of Bosnia. His father was Bosnian and his mother was a Turkish princes. Everything you see in this video was built by him and much more... a library, the colleague, public baths, shopping mall, clock tower with a mechanism made in London that displays lunar ala-Turka time, with nightfall as start of a new day. It's one of the only two still functional in Europe.
His famous words are thank God He did not give me any sons, for I might have grown arrogant. Or, what's the point of a belief, if it does not inspire. He spent entire wealth on public works and left them at the service of the people. Pious and humble man who spent much of his time in prayer and meditation in a simple wooden room with no furniture at all. Tolerant of other religions he proclaimed: Let the Christians build church with two crosses (meaning the Catholics and the Orthodox), let the Jews build a yellow synagogue. When the last trumpet sounds, we shall know who was right.
My God give this good and pious man eternal peace.
Countdown to 2019: the ancient clock tower based on lunar cycles
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As the countdown to 2019 gets underway there's one clock that'll be marking time in a very different way, as it follows the moon's cycles.
The clock tower in old Sarajevo includes a mechanism brought from England in the 1800s, and is still wound up by hand to this day.
STORY-LINE:
Hidden behind Sarajevo's old town Bascarsija, next to to the mosque, the Sahat Kula ancient clock tower rises thirty metres above the ground.
This clock which works on the lunar calandar has determined time, the rhythm of life and the call to muslim prayers for over five centuries.
It was built by Gazi Husrev-beg, the then Turkish governor of Bosnia.
Gazi Husrev-beg was one of the biggest developers during Ottoman times and he placed the clock tower in the heart of the city.
Sarajevo's Sahat Kula is believed to be one of the only existing public clocks in the world based on the lunar calandar.
As the sun rises and sets, the clock's hands meet and the bell rings out as the muezzin calls his congregation to prayer.
The tower is a great survivor.
In the 17th century it was burned to the ground by Eugene of Savoy. It rose up again as residents of Sarajevo determined to preserve their proud landmark.
The tower was hit by Serb shells many times in the Bosnian war, but the mechanism remained undamaged and was able to work throughout the four years of bombing.
Mensur Zlatar is the muvekit here. Muvekit is a Turkish word for clock caretaker.
He climbs the 76 narrow stairs of the tower several times a week to wind up and clean the mechanism.
Reaching the top he explains: (The) first written trace of this clock tower comes from Turkish explorer Celebija. In his writings from 17th century, Celebija describes this area in only one sentence, saying that on the western side of the mosque there is a tower with the clock.
The history of the clock itself is particularly interesting as Zlatar explains it was built in England and taken to Sarajevo and donated to the Gazi Husrev begova mosque in Sarajevo by two traders.
The clock mechanism was brought in from England in 1876, two years before the Austrian occupation of Bosnia. In 1878 was the Berlin congress (Austria annexed Bosnia). Two Sarajevo traders (Hasimaga) Glodjo and Hadzi Kapetanovic brought it in from England and they donated this clock. The clock mechanism was manufactured in Croydon, by a company called Gillett & Bland. This is a company which changed owners few times, I don't think it exists today under that name, but they are still operating. This is the same company that manufactured the clock on the tower in Manchester (UK), says Zlatar.
To show the city's appreciation of the clock at the beginning of the 20th century, Sarajevo's metalsmith, Abdulah Kasumagic, covered the clock's hands and it's arabic numbers with gold.
In the early days the clock only had one display on one side of the tower, but later when the proper mechanism arrived three other displays were added.
About the clock mechanism, says Zlatar there is little weight here that is pushing the whole mechanism, and it can run up to 10 days when it's fully wound up. It then reaches the border board. The big weight is moving the mechanism of the bell - this one can last up to 7 days after winding. So, I come up here to wind every seven days, but that also depends on the calendar, or takvim (muslim calendar), when the is sun is setting, he says.
They calculated the time by taking precise measurements says Zlatar:
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Sarajevo old town pearls
Sarajevo old town pearls: Sebilj, Morića-han (caravanserai), Gazi Husrev-bey Mosque, Clock Tower
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Originally opened as a glitzy VIP accommodation for the 1984 Winter Olympics, the Holiday Inn was the ground zero of the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990's and became a fortress for the world's media covering the conflict.
On April 5, 1992, a peaceful march for Bosnian unity turned into violence which people think of as the official start of the siege of Sarajevo. The conflict lasted nearly four years and took the lives of thousands of Bosnian Muslims, Serbs and Croats.
Marchers were protesting against a worsening rift between the three main nationalist parties sharing power in Bosnia-Herzegovina - the Muslim SDA, the Serb SDS and a branch of the Croatian HDZ.
As the protesters reached the Vrbanja Bridge, snipers fired into the crowd killing two women: Sauda Deberovic and Olga Sosic. The next day, the number of protesters outside Parliament grew and Serb snipers began shooting into the crowds.
Some of the snipers had been targeting people from inside the Holiday Inn hotel, which Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had made his temporary headquarters.
Snipers who were using the hotel were facing the Parliament building. They were shooting at innocent people who gathered in front of the Parliament to protest against the war. That was a prelude to the war, recalls Hajro Rovcanin, who worked at the Holiday Inn from the start and is now the hotel's executive director.
Journalists rushed to Sarajevo to cover the escalation of tensions, and although there was other more comfortable accommodation, the Holiday Inn soon became the centre of media coverage during the war. A significant amount video and still pictures of the war was filmed from the hotel.
I think maybe the Holiday Inn became the war hotel in Sarajevo because of a kind of an accident but also by design. Because of its unique location in the centre of the city, almost like a fortress that you can look out from all the sides, recalls photographer Paul Lowe who was among hundreds of correspondents, photographers and crews that set up base in the Holiday Inn to cover the siege.
It had infrastructure, it had a safe basement, safe garage, had plenty of rooms and somehow, we are not sure how, the hotel management to keep the supplies of food coming in ... So there was a sense that this being a concrete cocoon, which is completely false because people were shot dead on the entrance of the hotel, says Lowe.
The Holiday Inn was subjected to shelling and hit directly several times by heavy fire from Serb positions in the residential area of Grabvica and on Mount Trebevic. Eventually, parts of the hotel were uninhabitable due to destruction and shelling. And getting in and out of the hotel every day was extremely dangerous, remembers the BBC's Martin Bell.
I thought to myself I've get a better chance to survive if I don't enter the hotel through the main door which is on the line of fire from the Serbs opposite, but walking in through the broken frontage, says Bell. I was always [to] walk to my room in the clockwise direction however long it took rather the anti-clock direction - and it sort of helped to keep me alive.
The main street between the hotel and the parliament became known as Sniper Alley, which was one of the most dangerous intersections in Sarajevo 25 years ago, according to Kenneth Morrison, Professor of Modern European History. Snipers were particularly active in this area.
According to 1995 UN figures, 225 people were killed there and over a thousand injured.
I spent a lot of time outside anyway. I felt safer when I came to the hotel than on the streets of Sarajevo, but no, we didn't feel safe. There is no way we could have felt safe, says Samer Kurich, former Reuters translator and fixer.
Despite the danger, the hotel continued to house the media until the siege was lifted on February 29, 1996 - following the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the Bosnian conflict. More than 11,000 civilians had been killed.
The Holiday Inn still stands today, albeit under a new name, a symbol of the endurance and fortitude of the people of Sarajevo - and a shelter for those bringing their story to the world when the people of Sarajevo needed them the most.
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Bosnia - Reconstruction Is Underway In Sarajevo
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As nations gather in Brussels to discuss how to pay for the rebuilding of Bosnia on Thursday (11/4), reconstruction work is already underway in Sarajevo. Just three weeks after the handover of the city to Federation
police, Sarajevo has become a hive of activity as people grow increasingly confident that the peace is going to hold. Increasing numbers of people and vehicles are out on the streets. Teams of local workers - some working for free and living on humanitarian aid - are filling pot-holes caused by the shelling. Glaziers are out in force, replacing with glass the UNHCR plastic
sheeting found on virtually every window frame. Trees donated by France and Spain are being planted to replace those cut down for firewood and cooking during the long siege of
Sarajevo.
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SOT deputy high representative in Bosnia, Michael Steiner: once again a decision was made not in the interest of the population of the republic srbska but only in the self-serving interest of this leadership and it will backfire - it's a threat itself, the non-participation
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Countdown to 2019: the ancient clock tower based on lunar cycles
(28 Dec 2018) LEAD IN:
As the countdown to 2019 gets underway there's one clock that'll be marking time in a very different way, as it follows the moon's cycles.
The clock tower in old Sarajevo includes a mechanism brought from England in the 1800s, and is still wound up by hand to this day.
STORY-LINE:
Hidden behind Sarajevo's old town Bascarsija, next to to the mosque, the Sahat Kula ancient clock tower rises thirty metres above the ground.
This clock which works on the lunar calandar has determined time, the rhythm of life and the call to muslim prayers for over five centuries.
It was built by Gazi Husrev-beg, the then Turkish governor of Bosnia.
Gazi Husrev-beg was one of the biggest developers during Ottoman times and he placed the clock tower in the heart of the city.
Sarajevo's Sahat Kula is believed to be one of the only existing public clocks in the world based on the lunar calandar.
As the sun rises and sets, the clock's hands meet and the bell rings out as the muezzin calls his congregation to prayer.
The tower is a great survivor.
In the 17th century it was burned to the ground by Eugene of Savoy. It rose up again as residents of Sarajevo determined to preserve their proud landmark.
The tower was hit by Serb shells many times in the Bosnian war, but the mechanism remained undamaged and was able to work throughout the four years of bombing.
Mensur Zlatar is the muvekit here. Muvekit is a Turkish word for clock caretaker.
He climbs the 76 narrow stairs of the tower several times a week to wind up and clean the mechanism.
Reaching the top he explains: (The) first written trace of this clock tower comes from Turkish explorer Celebija. In his writings from 17th century, Celebija describes this area in only one sentence, saying that on the western side of the mosque there is a tower with the clock.
The history of the clock itself is particularly interesting as Zlatar explains it was built in England and taken to Sarajevo and donated to the Gazi Husrev begova mosque in Sarajevo by two traders.
The clock mechanism was brought in from England in 1876, two years before the Austrian occupation of Bosnia. In 1878 was the Berlin congress (Austria annexed Bosnia). Two Sarajevo traders (Hasimaga) Glodjo and Hadzi Kapetanovic brought it in from England and they donated this clock. The clock mechanism was manufactured in Croydon, by a company called Gillett & Bland. This is a company which changed owners few times, I don't think it exists today under that name, but they are still operating. This is the same company that manufactured the clock on the tower in Manchester (UK), says Zlatar.
To show the city's appreciation of the clock at the beginning of the 20th century, Sarajevo's metalsmith, Abdulah Kasumagic, covered the clock's hands and it's arabic numbers with gold.
In the early days the clock only had one display on one side of the tower, but later when the proper mechanism arrived three other displays were added.
About the clock mechanism, says Zlatar there is little weight here that is pushing the whole mechanism, and it can run up to 10 days when it's fully wound up. It then reaches the border board. The big weight is moving the mechanism of the bell - this one can last up to 7 days after winding. So, I come up here to wind every seven days, but that also depends on the calendar, or takvim (muslim calendar), when the is sun is setting, he says.
They calculated the time by taking precise measurements says Zlatar:
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Sarajevo''s bumper tourist season
(31 Aug 2011)
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina - 29 August 2011
1. Wide of Old Town (called Bascarsija) tourists sitting on old Turkish fountain, pigeons flying away
2. Tourist looking at map of Sarajevo
3. Various of tourists in Old Town
4. Roof of the old Turkish fountain
5. Wide tourists around old Turkish fountain
6. Wide craftsmen shops
7. Various of craftsman at work
8. Wide of artisan objects on display
9. Close up of plate showing churches of Sarajevo
10. Tourist Natalia Mandelli walking by shops
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Natalia Mandelli, Tourist from Italy :
It''s a beautiful city. They tell that it''s Jerusalem of Europe and I think this is the case because all religions live here together, and I like it a lot.
12. Wide of Sarajevo, the spires of Orthodox and Catholic church next to each other
13. Wide of ruins of old Turkish bazaar
14. Wide of old clock tower dating back to Ottoman empire
15. Various of people praying at mosque, filmed through bars of fence
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Brendan Gilbert, Tourist from New Zealand:
It''s good. It''s very different from other towns in Europe we''ve been so far. You definitely see the Eastern influence how it has met with Western influence as well. I''m sort of fascinated by all the history that''s gone on here. It''s good to have a look around here and see the remains of war and all that sort of thing.
17. People''s feet walking over division between Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian architecture in central Sarajevo (Ottoman pavement is solid rock and next to it is Austro-Hungarian marble on the street)
18. Tourists looking at map, pan to busy street
19. Sarajevo Catholic Cathedral, tilt down to tourists walking by
20. Set up of spokesperson from Sarajevo Tourist Association Asja Hadziefendic-Mesic
21. Mid of Hadziefendic-Mesic, looking at view of Sarajevo
22. Wide of Sarajevo skyline
23. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Asja Hadziefendic-Mesic, Sarajevo Tourist Association spokeswoman :
The estimate of World Tourism Federation is that Bosnia-Hercegovina will be in the next period among three top world tourist destinations, with the highest growth in number of tourists.
24. Reception of Boutique 36 hotel
25. Cutaway of STILL photo of Sarajevo skyline in black and white on hotel wall
26. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Andrea Softic, Manager of Boutique 36 hotel:
With great pleasure I can say that literally we are having a tourist boom here in Sarajevo. Also in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Especially this season was a success and it is unfortunately behind us, but we had so many guests from all over the world, from all continents.
27. Wide of The Museum of the City of Sarajevo
28. Tourists looking at pictures of Franz Ferdinand''s assassination on display outside museum
29. STILL in black and white of same street location from 1914
30. STILL in black and white of emperor Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia, before he was shot in Sarajevo
31.STILL in black and white of emperor Franz Ferdinand, arriving in Sarajevo on the day he was shot in 1914
32. STILL in black and white of Franz Ferdinand''s assassins in court
33. Wide of tourists looking at pictures at the museum
34. Close up of stone outside museum with information on assassination
35. Tourist drinking water from spring
36. SOUNDBITE (English) Mary Beth Niksic, Tourist from U.S :
Just wonderful. The buildings; you have the Austro-Hungarian and you have Bascarsija, the old Turkish all melding together. And the different foods and the smells and...
37. Close up of traditional Bosnian food, cevapcici (various minced meat folded into little sausage, with onion and pita bread) on barbeque
38. Close up of plate of cevapcici on table
39. Wide of waitress taking meals to diners at Bosnian restaurant
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Clock Tower, Herceg Novi, Montenegro
Clock Tower, Herceg Novi, Montenegro
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Tower Sahat-Kul is located in Herceg Novi at the entrance to the old town between the squares of Dzhurkovicha and Duke Stefan. By order of Turkish sultan Mahmud Clock Tower Sahat Kula was built in 1667. During the Turkish period there was a mosque on the square near the tower. Sahat Kul has on several sides mechanical clocks, which showed that it was time for daily Muslim prayers. In addition, the tower has served as the main gate of the town. The tower is not only a monument of architecture of Herceg Novi and its historical sights, but also the main heraldic symbol of the town. Its image is used on the flag of the town and all kinds of tourist trappings. The tower, which has become the most recognizable feature of Herceg Novi, has some other names: Tora, Sahat Kula or simply Clock Tower.
In 1753, the Russian Empress Catherine II made a gift to the citizens of Herceg Novi, bell-alarm appeared in the tower, which is preserved to this day.
There is a unique relief inside the Clock Tower that deserves special attention. This is an image of Our Lady under the title Black Madonna, made of old smoked wood. The author of this work is the sculptor Afran Hozich from Sarajevo. And the relief itself was established in memory of the founder of Herceg Novi Bosnian king Tvrtko I.
The old mechanical clock, which worked correctly all the time, were replaced with new electronic one in 1995. It was a gift to the people of Herceg Novi from the Serbian municipality of Zemun. In Sahat- Kula tower is still preserved an ancient archive of the town, where the oldest historical document dated by 1685 year.
HISTORICAL PLACES OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN GOOGLE EARTH PART THREE ( 3/3 )
1. BANJA,LAKTASI 44°54'13.94N 17°18'3.37E
2. MUSLIM MEMORIAL OF WAR 1992-1993, SARAJEVO 43°52'10.42N 18°24'41.26E
3. ALEKSA SANTIC MONUMENT,MOSTAR 43°20'8.85N 17°48'58.84E
4. PYRAMID,VISOKO 43°58'35.62N 18°10'36.65E
5. CITY HALL,BRCKO 44°52'41.18N 18°48'34.96E
6. TABHANSKA MOSQUE,VISOKO 43°59'12.48N 18°10'53.32E
7. OLD BRIDGE,MOSTAR 43°20'13.36N 17°48'53.44E
8. BRUSA BEZISTAN,SARAJEVO 43°51'31.81N 18°25'49.92E
9. MOSQUE,PLANA 42°57'41.64N 18°24'12.93E
10. FERHADIJA DZAMIJA MOSQUE,SARAJEVO 43°51'32.22N 18°25'37.76E
11. CHURCH OF ST. PETER&PAUL,MOSTAR 43°20'15.98N 17°48'31.48E
12. MONUMENT,PURACIC 44°32'31.51N 18°28'34.44E
13. CLOCK TOWER,POCITELJ 43° 8'1.73N 17°43'52.50E
14. DZAMIJA BISTRIK MOSQUE,SARAJEVO 43°51'11.88N 18°25'52.04E
15. SABORNA CRKVA PREOBRAZENJA GOSPODNJEG,TREBINJE 42°42'33.48N 18°20'43.55E
16. OLD CHURCH,SARAJEVO 43°51'37.14N 18°25'48.17E
17. CATHOLIC CHURCH,BRCKO 44°52'21.48N 18°48'37.13E
18. CHURCH OF ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA,SARAJEVO 43°51'21.55N 18°25'53.01E
19. KAMENI MOST,TREBINJE 42°42'42.38N 18°20'53.12E
20. CRKVA SVETE TROJICE,BANJA LUKA 44°46'27.71N 17°11'46.40E
21. SPOMENIK BITKA NA SUTJESCI ,TJENTIŠTE 43°20'46.20N 18°41'13.22E
Sarajevo Library, Emperor's Mosque, Ferhadija Street Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sarajevo Library, Emperor's Mosque, Cathedral, Ferhadija Street, Miljacka river, Baščaršija, Marijin Dvor, Great Lane, Parliament Building Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina
Composition from Sarajevo.mp4
It's about 6 a clock p.m. I'm standing on city walls, under me, city rapidly climbs on the slopes of nearby hills. I'm see it slightly misted with river meandering below, far a way is looming, government building, flaming afore times, tower from the snipers alley . From the landscape, stands out, 18th century city hall and plenty towers of minarets and Christian churches. Air is refreshing, evening is gently windy. It's about 6 a clock p.m at Saturday and the Muezzins start preying. Effect it's amazing. It's look like the dozens of towers carry on the dialogue, after a while I'll hear the bells joining to this great composition glorifying One God.
One Day in Sarajevo (Full HD, 1080p)
One Day in Sarajevo;
Ein Tag in Sarajewo;
Jedan dan u Sarajevu;
Еден ден во Сараево;
Video recording and editing:
Goran Dzambazov
Music:
Maybe This Time - JR Tundra
In Albany New York - The 126ers
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Recorded with Panasonic DMC-FZ1000 Digital Camera
Edited with Sony Vegas Pro 13
April-May 2015
Copyright © 2015 Goran Dzambazov / Горан Џамбазов
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