{"id":2160,"date":"2020-02-03T23:27:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:22:40","slug":"bascarsija-from-sarajevo-bosnia-and-herzegovina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/tr\/2020\/european-squares\/bascarsija-from-sarajevo-bosnia-and-herzegovina\/","title":{"rendered":"Saraybosna, Bosna Hersek, Bascarsija"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ba\u0161\u010dar\u0161ija dates back to the 15<sup>th<\/sup> century, when \u0130shako\u011flu \u0130sa Bey, the Turkish governor of Bosnia, builds Sarajevo. In keeping with the Oriental urban tradition, the cities have no square but a bazaar- this is what Ba\u0161\u010dar\u0161ija means and it was the commercial, administrative and cultural heart of the place. Here, mosques were built, along with shops, a library, a clock tower, inns. When the city becomes part of Austro-Hungary in 1878, the new rulers desire its transformation into a European city. A fire helps with the architects\u2019 plans and the central space of the bazaar, dominated by a minaret in the 16<sup>th<\/sup> century, becomes a square. Today, it is unofficially known as \u201cDove square\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"642\" data-id=\"2163\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/097-1024x642.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/097-1024x642.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/097-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/097-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/097.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"762\" data-id=\"2165\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/100-1024x762.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/100-1024x762.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/100-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/100-768x572.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/100.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ba\u0161\u010dar\u0161ija dates back to the 15th century, when \u0130shako\u011flu \u0130sa Bey, the Turkish governor of Bosnia, builds Sarajevo. In keeping with the Oriental urban tradition, the cities have no square but a bazaar- this is what Ba\u0161\u010dar\u0161ija means and it was the commercial, administrative and cultural heart of the place. Here, mosques were built, along &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/tr\/2020\/european-squares\/bascarsija-from-sarajevo-bosnia-and-herzegovina\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saraybosna, Bosna Hersek, Bascarsija<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[149,145,151,148,147,146,150],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-squares","tag-az","tag-en","tag-es","tag-ge","tag-gr","tag-ro","tag-tr"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"tr","enabled_languages":["en","tr","ro","es","it","gr","az","pl","ge","pt"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"tr":{"title":true,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"ro":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"it":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"gr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"az":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"pl":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"ge":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"pt":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5935,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/5935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}