Talk:Sarajevo

Etymology

This section looks atrocious. Beshogur (talk) 15:38, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

First tram

The article claims that Sarajevo "was the first city in Europe and the second city in the world to have a full-time electric tram network..." This is something I've heard before and always accepted at face value. However, it appears not to be true. Brighton was actually the first city in Europe with this distinction, in 1884. Sarajevo's trams weren't electrified until 1895, one year after Belgrade and Bucharest. Amanuensis Balkanicus (talk) 14:41, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

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Etymology

"The name Sarajevo derives from the Turkish noun saray, meaning "palace" or "mansion" (from Persian sarāy, سرای, of the same meaning). Scholars disagree on the origin of the evo attached to the end. In Slavic languages, the addition of "-evo" may indicate a possessive noun, thereby making the name of Sarajevo 'city of the palace'.[citation needed] One theory is that the name may have been derived from the Ottoman Turkish term saray ovası, first recorded in 1455, meaning "the plains around the palace" or simply "palace plains"." Bullshit. The end -evo is a common ending of the city names of the Slavic countries. In Poland for example there are cities Braniewo, Grajewo etc. (the Polish letter "w" means the same as a Serbo-Croatian "v"). ~2026-20444-95 (talk) 22:11, 1 April 2026 (UTC)