Bridges of city Sarajevo

Miljacka is a right tributary of Bosna river, and occurs near Sarajevo, the merger of Paljanska Miljacka and Mokranjska Miljacka. Although very short (35.9 kilometers), Miljacka is one of the most famous rivers in BiH because it runs through its main town - Sarajevo. Paljanska Miljacka springs a few kilometers east of Sarajevo in Pale. From Pale Miljacka flows east through the river Bosna Sarajevo in which it flows.

On Miljacki tehere are dozens of bridges, in the Turkish period 13, of which five stone ones, and they were built until the end of the 16th century.

Among the most famous bridges are:

 

GOAT ĆUPRIJA

It was built in the first half of the sixteenth century, on the famous Istanbul road, east of the city and is one of the most beautiful small stone bridge in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has an onion with two round holes, the debt is 42 m. The range of the vault is 17.5, and the bridge width is 4.75 m. There is a folk legend about the origin of this bridge.

ŠEHER Ćehaja bridge

This bridge was built 1585 by Ali Hafizadić, but it was probably named after some Ćehaja who repaired the bridge / ćehaja advocate pasture or mayor /.
He had five arches, and four massive pillars. It was thoroughly repaired several times in its history. When decorating side of the Miljacka in late nineteenth century, a bow is buried. The bridge was about 50.9 m long and 4.5 m wide bridge connecting the village and bazaar Alifakovac.
Bridge in 1904 was extended parapet demolition and adding a walking trail. Today it is undergoing restoration of the bridge and restore the original appearance of the old parapet.

LATIN BRIDGE

The first bridge at this point was made of wood, which has raised sarač Hussein on 1541. The stone bridge was built by Ali Bey Ajni 1565. Due to flood the bridge was badly damaged by the late eighteenth century, so on 1798 it was restored with Haji Abdullah care. It is likely that most had four strong pillars of stone that bore the five arches, but the regulation of Miljacka  in late nineteenth century, an arch was walled up. Bridge connected the right bank of the Miljacka the fourth where he lived the Christian population and named Latinluk or Frenkaluk, by which the bridge was named. Since it is near the bridge 1914 an assassination attempt on the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophia built the bridge is a monument dedicated to the imperial figure, but was destroyed in 1918. Then and after the Second World War was named Princip bridge, by Gavrilo Princip who committed this murder, and today again bore the name of the Latin Bridge.


MOST ĆUMURIJA

Connecting the coast of Miljacka, where the left bank was the At-mejdan, and on the right Ajaspasha mosques / near the present hotel "Central" /. The bridge was built in 1565 by Hajji Hasan, and has been repaired several times. It is replaced by iron in 1886. Called by a grove of charcoal-charcoal, which are the masters poured saber whose market was in the vicinity.

ROMAN BRIDGE

The stone bridge over the Bosna River was built probably in the first half of the sixteenth century, and was built of ashlar blocks of stone, with seven semicircular arches.
Because the parts were used in the construction of Roman buildings that were close, it was named the Roman bridge, and there is a presumption that is built on the foundations of a Roman bridge.

MOST ČOBANIJA

This wooden bridge was built by a shepherd Hasan Duke in 1557, and repaired by Sheikh Kaimija, Sarajevo's poet, and people called it "Šejhanija bridge," and some "šejtanija bridge." In 1886 the iron bridge was made, instead of this but, because of poor Grounding, it collapsed in 1888 and is built a new one.


MOST SKENDERIJA

Skender-Pasha built it in the fifteenth century and it was a wooden bridge that linked his endowment to the right and the left bank of the Miljacka, and in 1883 iron bridge was built upstream from the original.