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...Renault sedan scurries across the Miljacka River on the little bridge where Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. A brainless loop of history: the 20th century, after all its adventures, has arrived back in Sarajevo again, working on blood feuds and apocalypses. Lessons learned: possibly none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ruin of a Cat, the Ghost of a Dog | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

...Sarajevo, the problem, of course, was not that it was unknown, but the nature of its fame. Has a history test ever been drawn up anywhere in the world that did not require the answer: "The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo"? The people of Sarajevo have nonetheless stoically retained their fierce pride in a history rich--that is to say complicated--enough to explain even Princip. It is good, however, to have newer memories, though even recollections of the 1984 Winter Olympics touch on the subject of Princip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Trying to Keep That Feeling | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...surplus is being used to flog the tourist industry generated by the bonanza of Olympic publicity and the banishment of Princip's ghost. Sarajevo has devoted a $2 million fund solely to cementing the Olympic image by staging additional world-class sporting events--world speed-skating championships, European bobsled championships and the like--in hopes of attracting the fans and tourists who follow them. So far, the strategy is working. With round-trip air fare from New York and seven days in a hotel at the foot of Olympic ski runs costing just $680, the tourists are coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Trying to Keep That Feeling | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...Princip swallowed his cyanide pill, but it did him little harm. Neither did the authorities who convicted him of murder but could not execute him because he was a minor. Sentenced to 20 years, he died of tuberculosis in prison in 1918. By then, the war that started with a punitive Austrian attack on Serbia had bled all of Europe white. But Princip's deed did finally achieve its purpose. In the redrawing of maps that followed the war, the Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved into fragments; both Serbia and Bosnia were included in the new state of Yugoslavia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Sarajevo Triggered a War | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...fighting, of course. When Hitler invaded Yugoslavia in 1941, Sarajevo and its mountains became a center of fierce resistance. Both German and Allied bombers raided the city. Nearly 15% of its inhabitants died in the war. The Slavs remember such things proudly. That is why Princip, who is regarded by most of the world as a fanatic, is commemorated here by the two footprints near the river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Sarajevo Triggered a War | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

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