Koja je najveca biblioteka

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u SA?Zid je napravljen od knjiga...?

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There is an interesting story about the building of the City Hall. After the Austro-Hungarians occupied Bosnia-Herzegovina, they have began to build various buildings (the Post Office, museums, the Faculty of Law and houses), but when they tried to build the City Hall they experienced Bosnian stubbornness. They wanted to build it on the right side of the river Miljacka, but the exact location was in the property of a man called Benderija who did not want to allow them to demolish his house and take his land away from him for any reason. After long negotiations, the stubborn man finally said that he would give up his property only if they give him a bag of golden coins and if they move his house brick by brick to the other side of the river. They had no choice, and did what he asked for in 1895. Since then, Benderija's house is called "Inat kuca" (the spite house).
Until the war, the City Hall was the National Library with 1.5 million volumes, among them 155,000 rare books, unique archival collections, 478 manuscripts, the national collection of record of all the books, newspapers and magazines published in Bosnia since the 19th century, books published abroad about Bosnia's history and culture, as well as the central research collections of the University of Sarajevo.
In a three-day inferno (August 25-27, 1992) the library building was completely, gutted, more than 90% of its irreplaceable contents reduced to ashes. About an hour after nightfall on August 25th, a concentrated barrage of incendiary shells fired by Serb nationalist forces from positions on the heights overlooking the library burst through the roof and the large stained-glass skylight, setting the book stacks ablaze. Repeated shelling kept rekindling the fire, while snipers, mortar shells and anti-aircraft guns fired at sidewalk level shredded fire hoses and targeted fire fighters and volunteers attempting to save the books.

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