🇧🇦 Sarajevo - Latin Bridge and WWI

The Latin River is the most famous bridge crossing the Miljacka River on which Sarajevo stands.
The bridge in itself has nothing special, except that on one of the two sides of the bridge an event that changed world history occurred.

In 1914 the nationalist Gavrilo Princip killed the Archduke Franz Ferdinand (heir to the throne of the Austrian empire) exactly in this place.
This event is considered the casus belli of the First World War, an event that caused more than 17 million deaths and changed the world.Read more