Esad Kulović (1854 – 22 July 1917) was a Bosnian politician who served as the 4th Mayor of Sarajevo from 1905 to 1910. He was mayor during the

Bosnian crisis The Bosnian Crisis, also known as the Annexation Crisis (, ; sh-Latn-Cyrl, Aneksiona kriza, Анексиона криза) or the First Balkan Crisis, erupted on 5 October 1908 when Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzeg ...

of 1908.

Early life

Kulović was born to an old and prominent

Bosniak The Bosniaks (, Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia (region), Bosnia, today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and who sha ...

family of

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in the city of

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, while it was part of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

. 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

, when

Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe#Before World War I, Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. A military ...

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.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kulovic, Esad 1854 births 1917 deaths Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina Mayors of Sarajevo People from the Ottoman Empire People from Austria-Hungary

Early life

Politics

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