Stari Most
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The Old Bridge, also known as the Mostar Bridge, is a rebuilt 16th-century Ottoman bridge in the city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It crosses the river Neretva and connects the two parts of th
The Old Bridge in 2007
Stari Most in 1911
Stari Most undergoing reconstruction in 2003
Reconstructed Stari Most in 2006
Croat–Bosniak War
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The Croat–Bosniak War or Croat–Muslim War was a conflict between the Bosniak-dominated Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, supported by Croatia, that lasted
Stari Most
…Mimar Hayruddin, a student and apprentice of the architect Mimar Sinan, the Old Bridge is an exemplary piece of Balkan Islamic architecture. During the Croat–Bosniak War, the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) used the bridge as a military supply line, leading the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) to…
Clockwise from top right: remains of Stari Most in Mostar, replaced with a cable bridge; French IFOR Artillery Detachment, on patrol near Mostar; a Croat war memorial in Vitez; a Bosniak war memorial in Stari Vitez; view of Novi Travnik during the war
HVO, ARBiH, and HOS soldiers in Mostar, June 1992
Territorial changes from January 1993 to May 1995, also showing areas of joint HVO-ARBiH control before the start of the war
UN peacekeepers collecting corpses after the massacre in Ahmići