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Title: The Slavs of the war zone
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Bailey, William Frederick, 1857-1917
Subjects: Slavs
Publisher: London : Chapman & Hall
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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A Street in Sarajevo.
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Street scenes in Sarajevo. ( To face page 232. SARAJEVO: THE CITY OF THE GREAT WAR 233 The Austrian-built Rathhaus, erected on the site of a greenwhere formerly the wood market was held, is Moorish in style,and above it floats the banner of Bosnias conqueror. It is afine enough building in its way, but looks exceedingly incongruousset in the midst of the clustering httle native houses, and, inspite of its Oriental pretensions only succeeds in accentuatingones feehngs of resentment against the German aggressors.But in the darMja, as it has been said, there are no jarring in-congruities. All is in keeping, from the Begora Mosque,* with itsmagnificent and arched mosaic-inlaid arcade—the legacy leftby Usruf Bey to the city he besieged in the fifteenth century—down to the queer wooden clogs on the bare rosy feet of the babydaughters of Islam. It is, however, in the crowds that populatethe ClarUja rather than its buildings that interest centres. Nowheeled traffic is permitted to enter t

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