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Sokolac Fortress (Bihać)
Sokolac is a fortress located near the village of Sokolac, near Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina, originating in the Middle Ages. It is also referred to as ''Sokol'' or ''Sokol grad''. The oldest known document referring to Sokol is from 1395. In the 15th century, it was mentioned as part of the dynastic struggles in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. When the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ... expanded to the west, it was the site of several battles, before it fell to their rule together with Bihać in 1592. After that there are few mentions of it, it had a more minor garrison compared to the fort in the nearby Ripač. The site was declared a national monument in 2008 and an assessment from 2010 declared its condition to be poor, and estimated the nece ...
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Kingdom Of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946 and was a key part of the Habsburg monarchy from 1526-1918. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the Coronation of the Hungarian monarch, coronation of the first king Stephen I of Hungary, Stephen I at Esztergom around the year 1000;Kristó Gyula – Barta János – Gergely Jenő: Magyarország története előidőktől 2000-ig (History of Hungary from the prehistory to 2000), Pannonica Kiadó, Budapest, 2002, , pp. 37, 113, 678 ("Magyarország a 12. század második felére jelentős európai tényezővé, középhatalommá vált."/"By the 12th century Hungary became an important European factor, became a middle power.", "A Nyugat részévé vált Magyarország.../Hungary became part of the West"), pp. 616–644 his family (the Árpád dynasty) led the monarchy for 300 years. By the 12th century, the kingdom became a European power. Du ...
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries. The empire emerged from a Anatolian beyliks, ''beylik'', or principality, founded in northwestern Anatolia in by the Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. His successors Ottoman wars in Europe, conquered much of Anatolia and expanded into the Balkans by the mid-14th century, transforming their petty kingdom into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the Fall of Constantinople, conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed II. With its capital at History of Istanbul#Ottoman Empire, Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) and control over a significant portion of the Mediterranean Basin, the Ottoman Empire was at the centre of interacti ...
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Bihać
Bihać is a city and the administrative centre of Una-Sana Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated on the banks of river Una (Sava), Una in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the Bosanska Krajina region close to the border with Croatia. In 2013 its population was 56,261. Settlements * Bajrići (Bihać), Bajrići * Brekovica * Bugar * Ćukovi * Doljani (Bihać), Doljani * Donja Gata * Dubovsko * Gorjevac * Grabež * Grmuša * Hrgar * Izačić * Jezero (Bihać), Jezero * Kalati * Kulen Vakuf * Lohovo * Lohovska Brda * Mala Peća * Mali Skočaj * Međudražje * Muslići * Ostrovica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ostrovica * Papari * Praščijak * Pritoka * Račić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Račić * Rajinovci * Ripač * Spahići, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spahići * Srbljani * Velika Gata * Veliki Skočaj * Veliki Stjenjani * Vikići * Vrsta * Zavalje i Zlopoljac History According to documents and historical sources, the ...
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Bosnia And Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to the north and southwest, with a coast on the Adriatic Sea in the south. Bosnia (region), Bosnia has a moderate continental climate with hot summers and cold, snowy winters. Its geography is largely mountainous, particularly in the central and eastern regions, which are dominated by the Dinaric Alps. Herzegovina, the smaller, southern region, has a Mediterranean climate and is mostly mountainous. Sarajevo is the capital and the largest city. The area has been inhabited since at least the Upper Paleolithic, with permanent human settlement traced to the Neolithic cultures of Butmir culture, Butmir, Kakanj culture, Kakanj, and Vučedol culture, Vučedol. After the arrival of the first Proto-Indo-Europeans, Indo-Europeans, the area was populated ...
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Ripač
Ripač ( sr-cyrl, Рипач) is a village in the municipality of Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ripač is the location of a border crossing with Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ..., across Užljebić. Demographics According to the 2013 census, its population was 1,316. See also * Illyrian amber figures References {{commonscat, Ripač Populated places in Bihać Bosnia and Herzegovina–Croatia border crossings ...
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Castles In Bosnia And Herzegovina
This is a list of fortifications in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including fortresses and castles, arranged alphabetically. Bosnian archaeologist and historian of the Middle Ages, Pavao Anđelić, posited that Bosnia and Herzegovina is a home of great number of forts, fortresses, castles, including a number of Walled city, walled city-fortresses, in various degrees of preservation, and built in different stages of Bosniak history, Bosnian history. According to his research he argued that at least 350 of these edifices exists on the territory of modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, most of which was erected by or belonged to a medieval Bosnian state, while small number in its borderlands simply rests on the territories included into modern state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was largely unchanged, with few very minor exceptions, since 1878. In his book, the ''Medieval Towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina'', historian of architecture of the Middle Ages in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Husref Redži ...
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Buildings And Structures In Bihać
A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof, walls and windows, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for numerous factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the concept, see ''Nonbuilding structure'' for contrast. Buildings serve several societal needs – occupancy, primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical separation of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) from the ''outside'' (a place that may be harsh and harmful at times). buildings have been objects or canvasses of much artistic expression. In recent years, interest in sustainable planning and building practi ...
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