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Yugoslav1945
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Today, 3:43 am

The beauties of Beograd and Zagreb are admirable to look upon but how come have you not realized that the ideal Yugoslav city is Sarajevo and has been this whole time? Sarajevo pretty much filled the criteria of Brotherhood and Unity in theory and yet they never picked Sarajevo in 1945 as the capital city.

Sarajevo is a city with two churches (Orthodox and Catholic), several mosques, and one synagogue operating within the old town area. It has a predominantly Bosnian Muslim population but is religiously diverse and had a greater presence of Serbs and Croats during socialist Yugoslavia. Sarajevo was a missed opportunity to truly immerse the Brotherhood and Unity. Good old Tito himself was against Serbian hegemony and yet he chose Beograd anyways over the truly diverse Sarajevo.


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Today, 8:13 am

Most Americans rarely think about cities of former Yugoslavia. So ..in this US dominated site you probably wont find anyone who either ...strongly agrees, nor anyone who strongly disagrees with you...about the primacy of any particular city there.

How did that saying go? "Yugoslavia has five republics, four religions, three spoken languages, two alphabets, and one political party".

A country like that would benefit from a capital city that Wiki says "is often called the 'Jerusalem' of Europe'" because it has a Catholic church, an Orthodox church, a mosque, and a synagogue, all on the same block.

So yeah. I am not gonna argue with you. Sarajevo sounds like an awesome place to visit. Historic city surrounded by lovely mountains. Mountains that make for great skiing (they had a winter olympics there I believe), AND are great for an enemy army to lay siege to the city, shell it, and starve it out (as happened in the 90s). :lol:

Indeed the whole length of former Yugoslavia is kinda like that. Rugged land with rivers and sea coasts and islands, with a nice Mediterraranean climate...that...must be awesome to visit...but a landscape that contrbuted to its tragic history of division and ethnic rivalries.