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Title: Travels and politics in the Near East
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Miller, William, 1864-1945
Subjects: Eastern question (Balkan) Balkan Peninsula
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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abate a singlekreuzer of his price. At Sarajevo only the Bosniaksare permitted to have stalls in the bazar—a privilegewhich they much appreciate, and which is shared byall the confessions alike. Only one part of the bazaris under cover, and is almost entirely devoted to textilefabrics. In the midst of the bazar is the great beautyof Sarajevo—the famous mosque, called Begova-Dzamija,which was built by Usref, Pasha of Bosnia and conquerorof Jajce in the second quarter of the sixteenth century.Usref was the real founder of Turkish Saraj, which underthe old Bosnian kingdom had little importance, and ofall his works this mosque is the finest. Standing in acool courtyard, where the plash of a beautiful foun-tain never ceases, and a splendid lime-tree of vast agegives shade to the worshipper as he perform his ablutions,the Begova-Dzamija is typical of that repose which theMoslem so dearly loves, and of that cleanliness whichin his religion is not second, but equivalent, to godliness. 147
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Travels and Politics in the Near East Out in the courtyard, too, is a quaint old stone, the topof which is traversed by a groove exactly the length ofa Turkish ell. The local legend says that a pasha, hearinghow the merchants used various measures, set up thisstone, that all might know the exact length of a Turkishell, or cirsiii. To-day no such necessity exists, but thisgrooved block still bears the name of the ell-stone, andreminds the worshipper of that injunction of the Koranwhich forbids the faithful to use false measures. An oldclock-tower and some Mussulman graves, one of thefounder, another of the late mayor, complete the picture,while over the way an old Mohammedan school stillremains, a striking contrast to the spick-and-span ScJienat-scJuilc which we have already described. Of the modernbuildings the two handsomest are the new town hall andthe Government offices ; the former, which stands on thebank of the river, has only been completed within thelast few years, and is cons

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