Esad Kulović (1854 – 22 July 1917) was a Bosnian politician who served as the 4th

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from 1905 to 1910. He was mayor during the Bosnian crisis of 1908.

Early life

Kulović was born to an old and prominent Bosniak family of Janissaries in the city of

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, while it was part of the

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. His father was the only son of Sarajevo's

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Sulejman Ruždija Kulović, after whom a street was named in Sarajevo in Ottoman times. Kulović was raised in the neighborhood which bore his father's name, and where he eventually built a large house. Kulović was well-educated; in addition to his native Bosnian, he spoke Turkish,

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and French.

Politics

In 1884, he was elected the municipality representative of Sarajevo. Kulović became Mayor of Sarajevo in 1905. He was the mayor during the 1908 Bosnian crisis, when

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annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina from the

. Kulović won a third term in office in the 1910 election by an "overwhelming" majority, but refused post, thus the position was handed over to 44-year-old Fehim Čurčić.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kulovic, Esad 1854 births 1917 deaths Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina Mayors of Sarajevo

Early life

Politics

See also

References