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This stone bridge over the Miljacka is best known as the Latin Bridge, after Latinluk, the old Catholic quarter on the far bank. A bridge is recorded here in…
This stone bridge over the Miljacka is best known as the Latin Bridge, after Latinluk, the old Catholic quarter on the far bank. A bridge is recorded here in 1541, and a court record of 1565 credits a Sarajevan named Ali Ajni Bey with building it in stone. After a flood in 1791 it was rebuilt with funds from the merchant Abdullah Agha Briga, and the present bridge dates from 1798-99. It has four arches, and above its piers are two round openings known as the bridge's eyes, which appear on the seal of Sarajevo. At its northern end, on 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, an event that led to the First World War. The bridge is a short walk along the river from the Baščaršija.