Did you know this about Bosnia and Herzegovina?

The name Sarajevo comes from the Turkish word saraj, meaning palace. The city is the most Arabic in Europe, with cathedrals churches and synagogues alongside mosques and the central Bascarsija or Turkish bazaar.

The Turks constructed towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina in traditional Middle Eastern

pattern, consisting of two districts: commercial quarters (bazaars) and residential quarters (mahalas). Today, city planners still follow this pattern.

Bosnian maple is considered to be the finest wood quality for instruments and is in high demand all over the world. It has been widely used by Old Italian Masters and is still being employed with this long standing tradition by violin makers of today.

Mostar Old Bridge, in the Old Town in the very centre of Mostar, was built in 1566, by the Ottoman architect, Mimar Hajrudin, who erected this stone bridge in what was then just a small Turkish outpost in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina. The bridge spans the emerald green waters of the Neretva River and came to be known as "Stari Most", or Old Bridge. The outpost grew into a city and was eventually named after the bridge - Mostar, or "keeper of the bridge." Today, this bridge is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The recently built Mostar Music Centre in the city of Mostar serves as a therapeutic centre for children traumatized by war. War Child, an international organization dedicated to helping children affected by war, built the center with the help of the opera singer Pavarotti and other famous musicians.

The University of Sarajevo is one of the oldest and best known in the Balkans.

The Bosnian fast food cevapcici dates back 400 years. Nicknamed cevaps, the snack consists of small, oblong sausages surrounded by somun, a type of pita bread, and lots of chopped onions.

Archaeological discoveries in Bosnia and Herzegovina suggest that prehistoric settlers made pottery as far back as the Neolithic Age (3,000 BC).

The most dominant type of folk song in Muslim culture in Bosnia and Herzegovina used to be the sevdalinka, a form of love song.Sevdah is the Turkish word for love.

On Sunday, 28 June 1914, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were killed in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Gavrilo Princip. The event, known as the Assassination in Sarajevo, led to a chain of events that eventually triggered and become the official reason for beginning of the World War I.