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VISOKO (or VISOKI)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 146 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VISOKO (or VISOKI)  , a
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town of Bosnia, on the
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river Bosna, 15 M . N.W. of Serajevo by
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rail . Pop . (1895), about 5000 . Visoko has a brisk trade in leather, carpets and
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tobacco . Between the 13th and 16th centuries Visoko was only second to Jajce as a stronghold of the Bosnian rulers . There were fortified palaces at Sutje6ka, and Bobovac, among the mountains on the 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
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Turks, and finally rebuilt in '821 . Just below Visoko
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lay the town of Podvisoko, called Sotto Visochi by the Ragusans, which was the chief mart of the country from 1348 to 1430 .

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