|
See also: town of Bosnia, on the See also: river Bosna, 15 M
.
N.W. of Serajevo by See also: rail
.
Pop
.
(1895), about 5000
.
See also: Visoko has a brisk See also: trade in See also: leather, carpets and See also: tobacco
.
Between the 13th and 16th centuries Visoko was only second to See also: Jajce as a stronghold of the Bosnian rulers
.
There were fortified palaces at Sutje6ka, and Bobovac, among the mountains on the See also: north
.
Bobovac, which had withstood many previous assaults, was betrayed to the Turks• in 1463; at Sutjecka there is a Franciscan monastery, founded in 1391, often razed by the See also: Turks, and finally rebuilt in '821
.
Just below Visoko See also: lay the town of Podvisoko, called Sotto Visochi by the Ragusans, which was the chief mart of the country from 1348 to 1430
.
|
|
|
[back] VISITING CARDS |
[next] VISOR (also spelled viser, vizor, vizard or visard)... |
There are no comments yet for this article.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are encouraged.