Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has
marked the beginning and the end of the last century, not only locally
and regionally but also globally. In June 1914, a Serbian nationalist
assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo and this incident
escalated into the First World War. It was the first armed conflict
on such a grand scale that took millions of lives and resulted in collapse
of the three empires, Ottoman, Habsburg and Russian. This changed the
map of modern Europe and has had wide social, political and cultural
consequences up to this day.
