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Serajevo

a city in Jugo-Slavia, the Danube; E. by Bulgaria; W. by formerly the capital of the Austrian Albania and Montenegro; S. by Greece; province of Bosnia, situated on both area, 42,098 square miles; pop. about banks of the Miljaka, 122 miles S. W. 5,000,000. Capital, Belgrade; pop. (1919) of Belgrade. The principal industries of 120,000. The surface of Serbia is elethe town consist of textile mills and vated and is traversed by ramifications metal ware factories. Iron mines and of the Carpathians in the N. E., of the mineral springs are found in the vicinity. The name of the city, however, is generally associated with the assassination of the heir apparent to the throne of Austria-Hungary, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, which took place there on June 28, 1914. Pop. (1919) 50,000.

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