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Zaim Topčić
Zaim Topčić (28 February 1920 – 15 July 1990) was a Bosnian writer of novels. He twice won the Annual Award of the Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for the novels '' Lump of Sun'' and ''Black Snows'' (his son Zlatko Topčić is also a double winner of this award). Early life and family Topčić was born in Glamoč on 28 February 1920 and lived most of his life in Sarajevo. His wife Naila was a member of the Selimić family (her grandfather was a municipal councilor, landowner, benefactor and philanthropist Zaim-beg Selimić, who was the owner of the Kravica waterfall). He graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Belgrade. Career Topčić actively participated in World War II in Yugoslavia from the beginning of 1941, on the Partisans side. After liberation he was the editor of Sarajevo radio station. Topčić was the secretary general of the Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina (then ''Udruženje književnika Bosn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glamoč
Glamoč ( sr-cyrl, Гламоч) is a town and municipality located in Canton 10 of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in southwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the foothills of Staretina and Velika Golija mountains, and on the edge of the central part of the Glamoč Field. The municipality encompasses the town of Glamoč as a seat of the municipality and more than 50 villages and hamlets situated along the Field. It mainly covers an area of the historical and geographical region of Tropolje. Name During the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman era the town was recorded as Biograd (White town), Belgradčik and Biogradaz. Geography Climate The climate of Glamoč is classified as an oceanic climate (''Cfb'' in Köppen climate classification#GROUP C: Temperate/mesothermal climates, Köppen climate classification system), near the boundary of the humid continental climate. Glamoč has four separate seasons. Summers are warm, and winte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II In Yugoslavia
World War II in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia began on 6 April 1941, when the country was swiftly conquered by Axis forces and partitioned between Germany, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria and their client regimes. Shortly after Germany attacked the USSR on 22 June 1941, the communist-led republican Yugoslav Partisans, on orders from Moscow, launched a guerrilla liberation war fighting against the Axis forces and their locally established Puppet state, puppet regimes, including the Axis-allied Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and the Government of National Salvation in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia, German-occupied territory of Serbia. This was dubbed the National Liberation War and Socialist Revolution in post-war Yugoslav communist historiography. Simultaneously, a multi-side civil war was waged between the Yugoslav communist Partisans, the Serbian royalist Chetniks, the Axis-allied Croatian Ustaše and Croatian Home Guard (World War II), Home Guard, Serbian Volun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Glamoč
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1990 Deaths
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1920 Births
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List Of Bosniaks
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List Of Sarajevans
Sarajevo has had a number of famous citizens over the years. They include an Academy Award winner, two Nobel Prize winners, musicians, novelists, athletes, actors, artists, designers, film directors, screenwriters, politicians etc. Sarajevo has also produced presidents for three countries. Apart from people born in Sarajevo, this list also includes people that were or are associated with Sarajevo throughout their career, nevermind where they were actually born. A * Abdulah Sidran (born 1944), poet and screenwriter *Adela Jušić (born 1982), contemporary visual artist * Ademir Kenović (born 1950), film director and producer *Adi Granov (born 1977), comic book artist and conceptual designer *Ahmed Imamović (born 1971), film director, film producer and screenwriter * Aleksandar Hemon (born 1964), writer, winner of a MacArthur Foundation grant * Ališer Sijarić (born 1969), contemporary classical music, electroacoustic music and computer music composer *Amar Osim (born 1967), f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Bosniak Writers
This is a list of Bosniak novelists, poets and other writers. A *Abdulah Sidran (born 1944), writer and poet *Abdulvehab Ilhamija (1773–1821), poet and prose writer * Ahmed Muradbegović (1898–1972), writer, dramatist and novelist *Alija Isaković (1932–1997), writer, essayist, publicist, playwright, and lexicographer * Asaf Duraković (born 1940), poet *Avdo Humo (1914–1983), writer and politician *Ayşe Kulin (born 1941), Turkish novelist and columnist with Bosniak ancestry B * Bisera Alikadić (born 1939), poet D * Derviš Sušić (1924–1990), writer * Dževad Karahasan (born 1953), writer and philosopher E *Edhem Mulabdić (1862–1954), writer * Emir Suljagić (born 1975), author * Enver Čolaković (1913–1976), novelist, poet and translator F *Faruk Šehić (born 1970), poet, novelist and short story writer *Feđa Isović (born 1965), screenplay writer H * Hasan Kikić (1905–1942), literate and poet *Hamdija Kreševljaković (1888–1959), historian *H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Bosnian And Herzegovinian People
This is a list of notable people of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The people of Bosnia and Herzegovina are known by the demonym "Bosnians", which includes people belonging to the three main constituent groups ( Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs). Arts Fine arts *Adi Granov – comic book artist *Braco Dimitrijević – conceptual artist *Endi E. Poskovic – printmaker and artist *Gabrijel Jurkić – painter * Safet Zec – painter and graphic designer * Šejla Kamerić – video art and installation *Helena Klakocar – cartoonist * Maya Kulenovic – painter (Canada) * Mersad Berber – painter *Nesim Tahirović – painter *Irfan Brkovic – visual artist * Lazar Drljača – painter *Slobodan Pejić – painter and sculptor *Todor Švrakić – painter * Zuko Džumhur – cartoonist * Adela Jušić – visual artist * Florijan Mićković – sculptor Architecture * Selma Harrington – architect and designer * Vesna Bugarski – Bosnia-Herzegovina's first female architect * Ivan Štrau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilidža
Ilidža ( sr-cyrl, Илиџа, ) is a town and a municipality located in Sarajevo Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has a total population of 66,730 with 63,528 in Ilidža itself, and is a chief suburb of Sarajevo and ''de facto'' its neighborhood. It is best known for the Vrelo Bosne spring, as well as the natural environment of its surroundings and historical tradition dating back to Neolithic times. Sarajevo International Airport is located nearby. Geography Ilidža is known to have a pleasant and attractive geography. The town itself is built on fairly level ground, although it is surrounded by mountains. The biggest is Mount Igman, whose peak towers above the town. On the mountain grows the "Golden Lily" (''Lilium bosniacum''), a branch of the Lily family of flowers that is a historical symbol of Bosnia. The area is rich in flint, especially in the Butmir neighborhood. The Željeznica river, a tributary of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasenovac Concentration Camp
Jasenovac () was a concentration camp, concentration and extermination camps, extermination camp established in the Jasenovac, Sisak-Moslavina County, village of the same name by the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in Invasion of Yugoslavia, occupied Yugoslavia during World War II in Yugoslavia, World War II. The concentration camp, one of the ten largest in Europe, was established and operated by the governing Ustaše regime, Europe's only Collaboration with the Axis powers, Nazi collaborationist regime that operated its own extermination camps for Serbs, Jews and other ethnic groups. It quickly grew into the third largest concentration camp in Europe. The camp was established in August 1941, in marshland at the confluence of the Sava and Una (Sava), Una rivers near the village of Jasenovac, and was dismantled in April 1945. It was "notorious for its barbaric practices and the large number of victims". Unlike Nazi Germany, German Nazi concentration camp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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