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Word: miljacka (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...restaurant and bar by the Miljacka River, Ferid Sultanovic settles his ex-weightlifter's girth at a returning visitor's table and tenders a drink on the house. "There have been many changes, but it is the mentality that counts," he says. "We are an openhearted people, and perhaps the world came to know this from the Olympics. Many years will pass, but I do not think the people will change inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Trying to Keep That Feeling | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...most famous spot in Sarajevo, where the Appel Quay once met the Latin Bridge that crossed the gentle Miljacka River, there now stand two footprints embedded in the concrete sidewalk. The bridge today is called the Princip Bridge, for these two footprints mark the place where Gavrilo Princip, a gaunt, sallow student of 19, stood and fired the pistol shots that, as one historian put it, took seven million lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Sarajevo Triggered a War | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

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