Top 10 Amazing Facts About Bosnia And Herzegovina
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Welcome to Countries Facts so in this Article I will show you top 10 Amazing facts about Bosnia and Herzegovina one sarajevo the capital city of bosnia and herzegovina.
1 Bosnia and Herzegovina has the first city in europe with a full-time electric tram trams have a long history in bosnia tracing back to 1885 when horse-drawn trams were implemented as a means to connect downtown sarajevo with the city's train station.
2 When you think of jungles do you think of the amazon and the congo we can't blame you for that but did you know a beautiful untouched jungle still remains in europe situated on the border of montenegro and herzegovina perusica is one of the last remaining primeval forests in europe.
3 Sarajevo was the first communist city in the world to host a winter games neither communism nor the olympics are new concepts communism has been around since the 1840s and the modern olympic games originated in 1896 but it wasn't until 1984 that the two combined for the first winter games in a communist country the 1984 olympic games held in sarajevo which at that time was part of yugoslavia were considered sarajevo's crowning achievement and a symbol of the great things that lay in store for yugoslavia and its citizens.
4 Bosnia and herzegovina might have a pyramid yes according to dr samir osmanagic a bosnian archaeologist the five hills in visico aunt hills but are thirty thousand-year-old pyramids even though very few people in the scientific world accept samir's claims the evidences that exist are compelling and convincing.
5 Did you know that bosnia and herzegovina has three presidents yes we are serious and in fact it is the only country in the world with such an uncommon system.
6 Bosnia and herzegovina is sometimes also known as the most complicated country in the world due to its social and political framework a bosnian can either be a bosniak croat or serb based on his or her religious affiliations as a muslim catholic or orthodox christian respectively each group has their own language which is slavic based and shares similarities with each other after conflicts in the 1990s bosnia split along ethnic lines and now each group has their own president.
7 A 16th century mosque in sarajevo known as ghazi hazref beg mosque is famous for a number of reasons firstly it is the largest most important and one of the oldest mosques in europe secondly in 1898 gazi hazref bay mosque became the first in the world to receive electricity and electric illumination.
8 In 1981 six children allegedly witnessed something magical which forever transformed the small herzegovinian town of madugia mother mary appeared on a hill to the six children turning this town near mostar into a major pilgrimage site for catholics around the world since 1981 more than 30 million people have visited some claim to see the sun spinning in the sky and unexplained figures forming the shape of a cross around the sun.
9 A dangerous fact about the country is that as a result of the 1992-1995 bosnian civil war there are still some 30 000 active land mines left in the country in fact 2.2 percent of bosnia's total landmass is yet to be completely cleared of these landmines.
10 Bosnian currency can't be bought or exchanged anywhere outside of the country this means that the bills are relatively worthless outside of the country as they can't be replaced with another currency that was all about bosnia and herzegovina.
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