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A Journey Through Old Bosnia
"The profound solitude, the virgin-like nature of the vast wilderness, are broken here and there by Oriental towns, medieval castles and keeps, and widely scattered,
picturesque villages, wherein dwell a dignified and proud people, of inflexible courage, ever ready for war or song; for never, until the advent of the Austrian Occupation,
has the clang of arms been silenced here between the Crescent and the Cross, between serfs and masters. Begs, Kapetans, Waywodes, Serdars, Glavares, have all fought
here without let or hindrance, and the whole country still rings with songs whose burden is the prowess of ancestors, or the sweetness of love."
-János de Asbóth, An official tour through Bosnia and Herzegovina (1890)
"The Bosniacs themselves speak of the other side of the Save as ‘Europe,’ and they are right; for to all intents and purposes a five minutes’ voyage transports you into Asia.
[...]Thrace, Macedonia, the shores of the Aegean, Stamboul itself, have lost or never displayed many Oriental customs and costumes; but Bosnia remains the chosen land of
Mahometan Conservatism, the Goshen of the faithful, ennobled by the tombs of martyrs, and known in Turkish annals as the ‘Lion that guards the gates of Stamboul.’ "
-Sir Arthur Evans, Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina on foot during the insurrection (1875)
Bosanski Brod
Bosnisch Brood
Save-Landschaft bei Bosnisch-Brod
Save landscape at Bosanski Brod
Bródi Utcza
Street in Brod
Bosanski Novi
Bihac
Ostrozac castle near Bihac
Bosanska Krupa
Bjeljina
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