“There are many cities named Saraj in this world… but this fortified Bosnian city of Sarajevo is the most advanced, most beautiful and most lively of them all.” Evliya Çelebi
MARINDVOR – MARIJIN DVOR
Marijin dvor is a building in Sarajevo. It’s located in the settlement with the same name, Marijin Dvor. It is also the National monument of B&H. It is located between 4 streets: Street of Marshal Tito, Kralja Tvrtka Street, Augusta Brauna Street and Doline Street. It represents the residential commercial building. It was built, as well as the entire settlement which is the most beautiful part of Sarajevo today, by the Austrian businessman, August Braun, who called it after his wife Mary. It was designed by Czech architect Charles Pařik.
“His wife, Mary, who was a very beautiful woman, came with Braun in Sarajevo. She loved him deeply, and she was a lovely wife as well, so he decided to build a palace on the site of today’s Marijin dvor and call it after her. He really accomplished it, and this part of the city was named Marijin dvor after the palace as well. However, given the fact that the citizens of Sarajevo are well known for simplifying the pronunciation of words, Marijin dvor soon became Marindvor.
The building is consisted of two parts, Mary’s palace and August’s palace: the real Mary’s palace was actually built until the very end, while the August’s palace remained partially completed, from the number 10 to number 16 in Kralja Tvrtka Street.
MEJTAŠ
Mejtaš is a settlement that was named after a stone of dead. In some scriptures it is stated that the woman called Dudi-bula gave the money for the construction of the mosque on Mejtaš in the period 1528-1540, but it is not known for how long it existed.
Next to the mosque was harem, the place where the dead people were buried. The custom was to place the coffin before burial on a rectangular stone that was facing Kaaba, and thus praying the funeral prayer. The stone was called “Mejtaš” or “stone of a dead man” and the whole settlement was named after him.
DOLAC MALTA
Malta is framed by the flow of the river Miljacka and 3 very important roads, which are connecting east and west, and north and south parts of Sarajevo. The settlement got its name from the German word Maut (meaning: customs duties, customs), and the reason is not in a very distant past. In fact, Malta is the place where Austro-Hungarian authorities were controlling the quality of food products that farmers from the surrounding villages were selling in the city, and the same place where they were paying some kind of tax.
(Source: furaj.ba)
