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3 Kragujevac Kragujevac (Serbian Cyrillic: Крагујевац) is the fourth largest city in Serbia, the main city of the Šumadija region. It is situated on the banks of the Lepenica River. Despite its relatively late foundation (1476), Kragujevac is the city of many firsts. Being the first capital of modern Serbia, the first constitution in the Balkans was proclaimed in this city in 1835. Further on, the first full- fledged university in the newly independent Serbia was founded in 1838, preceded by the first

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Drvengrad Drvengrad(Serbian cyrillic: Дрвенград), meaning Wooden Town in Serbian, is a film ethno-village in Mokra Gora. It is situated between Zlatibor and Tara mountains and was erected on Mecavnik hill by the film director Emir Kusturica, who had built it for his film Life Is a Miracle.. Drvengrad is also known as Küstendorf, as a word play on German „dorf“ (village) and Kusturica‘s nickname, „Kusta“.

Mostar

Mostar is a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the biggest and the most important city in the Herzegovina region and the center of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation. Mostar is situated on the Neretva river and is the fifth-largest city in the country. Mostar was named after „the bridge keepers“ (natively: mostari) who kept the Stari Most (Old Bridge) over Neretva river. During the Ottoman era, the Old Bridge was built and became one of the symbols of Mostar.

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Visegrad Višegrad (Serbian Cyrillic: Вишеград) is a town and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is administratively part of the Republika Srpska entity of BiH. It is on the river Drina, located on the road from Goražde and Ustipraca. The town is widely known for the book „Bridge on the Drina“ written by Ivo Andric, Nobel prize winning author.

Sarajevo (Cyrillic: Сарајево) is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sarajevo is located in the Sarajevo valley of Bosnia proper, surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated around the Miljacka river.The city is famous for its traditional religious diversity, with adherents of Islam, Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Judaism coexisting there for centuries. Due to this long and rich history of religious diversity and coexistence Sarajevo has often been called the „Jerusalem of Europe“.

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