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Mirza Delibašić Hall
The Mirza Delibašić Hall (Serbo-Croatian: ' / ), commonly known as Skenderija Hall (), is an indoor sporting arena located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a part of Skenderija. Opened on 23 November 1969, the seating capacity of the arena is 5,616. It is currently home to the Bosna Royal Sarajevo basketball team and is named after its legendary player Mirza Delibašić. Sports Notable basketball events hosted at the arena include the preliminary rounds of the 1970 FIBA World Championship, the 1970 FIBA European Champions Cup The EuroLeague is a European men's professional basketball club competition. The league is widely recognised as the top-tier and the most prestigious men's basketball league in Europe. The league consists of 20 teams, of which 16 are given lon ... final in which Ignis Varese defeated CSKA Moscow 79-74 and the 1980 Intercontinental Cup tournament in which Maccabi Tel Aviv won the title. Concerts and other events See also * List of indoor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skenderija
Skenderija is a cultural, sports and trade centre located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In boasts an area of 70,000 square meters, with multipurpose halls for various sports, with concert and cultural venues, and with trade areas which include the outdoor square. Additionally, a modern shopping centre called "''Privredni grad''" (English: ''Trade City'') with numerous confectionery shops, restaurants, coffee bars, and other spaces is located at the underground level. Some of the venues include Dom Mladih, Ars Aevi, and Mirza Delibašić Hall. History In the late 1960s, the rapidly expanding city of Sarajevo lacked an exhibition-and-sports centre, so municipal authorities approved the plan to build the new Skenderija centre. It was opened on 29 November 1969 by hosting a première of the film '' Battle of Neretva''. The name Skenderija, which means ''"Skender's place",'' refers to the Bosnian Sanjak-bey Skender Pasha, a historical figure who, in 1499, had built the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIBA European Champions Cup
The EuroLeague is a European men's professional basketball club competition. The league is widely recognised as the top-tier and the most prestigious men's basketball league in Europe. The league consists of 20 teams, of which 16 are given long-term licences and wild cards, making the league a semi-closed league. The league was first organized by FIBA in 1958, subsequently by ULEB in 2000 and then solely by Euroleague Basketball. The competition was introduced in 1958 as the FIBA European Champions Cup (renamed the FIBA EuroLeague in 1996), which operated under FIBA's umbrella until Euroleague Basketball was created for the 2000–01 season. The FIBA European Champions Cup and the EuroLeague are considered to be the same competition, with the change of name being simply a re-branding. Since 2010, it has been sponsored by Turkish Airlines. The EuroLeague is one of the most popular indoor sports leagues in the world, with an average attendance of 10,383 for league matches in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edvard Kardelj
Edvard Kardelj (; 27 January 1910 – 10 February 1979), also known by the pseudonyms Bevc, Sperans, and Krištof, was a Yugoslav politician and economist. He was one of the leading members of the Communist Party of Slovenia before World War II. During the war, Kardelj was one of the leaders of the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People and a Slovene Partisan. After the war, he was a federal political leader in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He led the Yugoslav delegation in peace talks with Italy over the border dispute in the Julian March. Kardelj was the main creator of the Yugoslav system of workers' self-management. He was an economist and a full member of both the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He also played a major role in foreign policy by designing the fundamental ideological basis for the Yugoslav policy of nonalignment in the 1950s and the 1960s. Early years Kardelj was born in Ljubljana. At t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito ( ; , ), was a Yugoslavia, Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War II, he led the Yugoslav Partisans, often regarded as the most effective Resistance during World War II, resistance movement in German-occupied Europe. Following Yugoslavia's liberation in 1945, he served as its Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, prime minister from 1945 to 1963, and President of Yugoslavia, president from 1953 until his death in 1980. The political ideology and policies promulgated by Tito are known as Titoism. Tito was born to a Croat father and a Slovene mother in Kumrovec in what was then Austria-Hungary. Drafted into military service, he distinguished himself, becoming the youngest sergeant major in the Austro-Hungarian Army of that time. After being seriously wounded and captured by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radojka Šverko
Radojka Šverko (born 9 April 1948) is a Croatian female singer-songwriter and an alto range artist. Šverko was the recipient of many music festival awards, including winning the MIK (melodys of Istria and Kvarner) singing festival, which celebrates the tradition of the region. More recently she performed at the Split Festival (2005) for her song ''Licem u lice'' (lit. "Face to Face"). She has released numerous albums, singles and EPs for leading Croatian and Yugoslav record labels. She is an actress as well, who appeared in several films. In February 2015 she sang at the inauguration of Croatian president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (; born 29 April 1968) is a Croatian politician and diplomat who served as the president of Croatia from 2015 to 2020. She was the first woman to be elected to the office since the first multi-party elections in 1990 .... References External links BiographyŠverko appeared as actress in films Living peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Đorđe Marjanović
Đorđe Marjanović ( sr-Cyr, Ђорђе Марјановић; 30 October 1931 – 15 May 2021) was a Serbian and SFRY, Yugoslav singer. Marjanović began his career in the mid-1950s, rising to fame in the late 1950s with his theatrical on-stage performance. During the 1960s he recorded a large number of hit songs and became the first superstar of the Popular music in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav popular music, but also achieved large popularity in the Soviet Union. Due to his on-stage performance and inclusion of foreign rock and roll hits into his repertoire, Marjanović was often described as one of the pioneers of the Popular music in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav rock scene. During the 1970s and 1980s he managed to maintain a loyal fanbase. In 1990, he suffered a stroke on stage, from which he partially recovered, but decided to retire from the scene. He died in 2021, aged 89 from COVID-19. Early biography Đorđe Marja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambasadori
Ambasadori (The Ambassadors) were a Yugoslav schlager pop band from Sarajevo, active from 1968 until 1980. The band is most notable for their 1975 hit single , as well as for representing Yugoslavia at the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest with " Ne mogu skriti svoju bol"—both times with on vocals. They are further notable for the 1977 hit single "Dođi u pet do pet", this time with Jasna Gospić as the vocalist. Additionally, the band gained retroactive notability for having two of their lead singers—Zdravko Čolić (sang with the band from 1969 until 1971) and Hari Varešanović (from 1979 until 1980)—later go on to Yugoslav pop stardom in their respective solo careers. History Ambasadori were founded in Sarajevo in 1968 by two military brass band musicians—keyboardist Robert Ivanović and trombonist Srđan Stefanović—both holding military rank as active officers of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). In fact, Ivanović had arrived in Sarajevo shortly prior via bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kemal Monteno
Kemal Monteno (17 September 1948 – 21 January 2015) was a Bosnian recording artist and singer-songwriter whose career stretched from the 1960s to the 2010s. He is widely considered one of the greatest songwriters of the former Yugoslavia. Monteno wrote songs for other performers as well, most notably Zdravko Čolić, Toše Proeski, and the rock band Indexi. Early life Monteno's father Osvaldo was an Italian from Monfalcone. During World War II, he was drafted and deployed to occupied Yugoslavia in 1945 where he met a Bosniak woman named Bahrija in Sarajevo and fell in love. Osvaldo left his pregnant wife in Italy to marry Bahrija. Osvaldo's Italian wife gave birth in 1946 to a daughter named Daniela, Monteno's half-sister. Kemal was born to Osvaldo and Bahrija two years later in Sarajevo. Although his father was Catholic and his mother was a Muslim, Monteno was given a Muslim first name. Osvaldo only spoke Italian and sang canzones to Monteno when he was a child, while his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mišo Kovač
Mate "Mišo" Kovač (; born 16 July 1941) is a Croatian recording artist. He is the best selling artist from Croatia and former Yugoslavia, with well over 20 million records, cassettes and compact discs sold to date, and is often regarded as one of the most popular musical performers from Southeastern Europe. Early life Kovač was born in Šibenik during the Italian occupation of Dalmatia in the World War II as the second child of Zrinka and Jakov Kovač. His mother was originally from the island of Vrgada, and his father was from the Škopinac district of Šibenik. Mišo grew up in a family with his brother Ratko and sister Blanka. As a child, he grew up in a street in Šibenik's Varoš, where musicians Vice Vukov and Arsen Dedić lived at the same time. As a young man, he practiced football as a goalkeeper and started playing for the junior team of HNK Šibenik, dreaming of a professional football career in Hajduk Split, which he was also a fan of, often traveling by boa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ljiljana Petrović
Ljiljana Petrović ( sr-cyr, Љиљана Петровић; 1939 – 4 February 2020) was a Serbian singer. She was born in Bosanski Brod, but was brought up in Novi Sad. She began to sing at local clubs and restaurants, and performed at a festival in Mali Lošinj in 1960, where she was noticed by the head of the artists and repertoire division at the record label Jugoton. In 1961, Petrović represented Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961 with the song "Neke davne zvezde" (Some ancient stars). Petrović finished in 8th place receiving 9 points. Subsequently, she continued to record music until the late 1970s, at which point she retired from public life until the late 1980s, when she became an author, releasing a book of poetry in 1991. Petrović died on 4 February 2020, aged 81. See also * Gabi Novak Gabrijela "Gabi" Novak (; born 8 July 1936) is a Croatian pop and jazz singer. A wife of the prominent Croatian singer-songwriter Arsen Dedić, whom she married in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Martin
Leo Martin ( sr-cyr, Лео Мартин, born on 6 March 1942) is a Serbian and former Yugoslav pop singer. He started his career in the early 1960s in jazz bands as an instrumentalist and vocalist. In 1964, he moved with his band to West Germany to play jazz covers in night clubs. In 1968, while in Germany, he started his solo career by recording an album of pop music in the English language, which made him popular throughout Europe. After touring Europe, he returned to Yugoslavia in 1969 where he established himself as one of the leading schlager singers of the 1970s and 1980s. His career was interrupted by Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. He has performed sporadically since. Biography Martin was born Miloš Jović (Милош Јовић) on 6 March 1942 in the village of Rašica near Blace, Serbia. When he was two years old, his family moved to Belgrade. His family was poor, so he had to work hard since the young age. Jović was loading coal in the building of the Music Academy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indexi
Indexi was a Bosnian and former Yugoslav rock band popular in Yugoslavia. It formed in 1962 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and disbanded in 2001 when singer Davorin Popović died. Some of their most notable songs are "Svijet u kome živim" and "Negdje u kraju, u zatišju" with lyrics by Želimir Altarac Čičak, "Plima", "Sve ove godine", "Sanjam" and "Bacila je sve niz rijeku", which was later covered by many other ex-Yugoslavian groups, notably Crvena jabuka. Indexi formed in 1962, and their name was derived from the "Indeks" which was a student's grade log. They began by making instrumental covers of popular hits, but in 1967 started composing. They were known as the "Pioneers of Psychedelic Rock", and were inspired by many bands like the Beatles The Beatles were an English Rock music, rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are widely regarded as the Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
