The Rača Bridge () is an international
bridge
A bridge is a structure built to Span (engineering), span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, whi ...
over the
Sava river, from
Sremska Rača in
Serbia
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to Bosanska Rača in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...
.
The Bridge of
Maria of Yugoslavia
Maria (born Princess Maria of Romania; 6 January 1900 – 22 June 1961), known in Serbian as Marija Karađorđević ( sr-Cyrl, Марија Карађорђевић), was Queen of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from 1922 to 1929 and Queen of Yu ...
(Мост краљице Марије) was opened on 28 June 1934. The bridge was built by mainly
Italian workers.
On September 6, 2010, the Serbian government and
Milorad Dodik opened the new Bridge of Europe (Мост Европа), a road bridge built just to the west of the Maria Bridge.
Boris Tadić
Boris Tadić, (born 15 January 1958) is a Serbian politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2004 to 2012.
Born in Sarajevo, he graduated from the University of Belgrade with a degree in psychology. He later worked as a journalist ...
said he hoped the bridge would further bring closer the peoples of both sides of the Sava river, contributing economically Serbia and the Republika Srpska entity.
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See also
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List of bridges in Serbia
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List of international bridges
References
Bridges over the Sava in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bridges over the Sava in Serbia
Transport in Vojvodina
Bridges completed in 1934
International bridges
1934 establishments in Yugoslavia
1934 establishments in Serbia
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