Vogošća is the secondary suburb of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, located about 6 kilometers north of the city center and covering some 72km². Vogošća greatly prospered during the 1980s, as part of Sarajevo’s great boom in the latter half of the 20th century. It grew to prominence in large part due to its automobilemanufacturingindustry, having deals with German and Swedish companies. Indeed, by the late 80s it was the second most industrious and productive Općina in the former Yugoslavia. Vogošća City Seal This image depicts a seal, an emblem, a coat of arms or a crest. ... Sarajevo at night. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 60s and 70s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ... Manufacturing is the transformation of raw materials into finished goods for sale, or intermediate processes involving the production or finishing of semi-manufactures. ...
Vogošća was heavily damaged during exodus of the Serbian people who left territory of the municipality because that municipality was added to FBiH after the end of the Civil War in Bosnia (During the war most of the territory Vogosca municipality was under Serb control). Today Vogošća is rebuilding and its industries are rising from the ashes. In 1991, Vogošća had some 12,000 residents. According to government statistics from 2002, today Vogošća has 19,894 residents, of which 17,686 are Bosniaks (88.9%), 1,636 are Serbs (8.2%), 452 are Croats (2.3%), and 120 are classified as others (0.6%). 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bosniaks (Bosnian: BoÅ¡njaci) are a Southeast European ethnic group, descended from Slavic converts to Islam during the Ottoman period (15th-19th century), living primarily in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Serbs (in the Serbian language Срби, Srbi) are a south Slavic people living chiefly in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Croats (Croatian: Hrvati) are a south Slavic people mostly living in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (where theyre one of the constitutive nations). ...
Making Sarajevo whole again is a key provision of the Bosnian peace agreement, and Vogosca was the first of the capital's five Serb districts to be handed over to the Muslim-Croat Federation that is to govern half of Bosnia.
There was a ripple of applause as one federation police officer showed his distaste for his departed predecessors by throwing a Serb flag which had hung outside the police station into the snow.
Most of Vogosca's residents fled for other Serb-held land this week, taking along everything they could carry, from pieces of their houses to dug-up corpses of loved ones.
VOGOSCA, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- The Serb mayor's office was trashed, a Bosnian flag was hoisted over municipal offices, and most federal police patrolling this deserted Sarajevo district yesterday wore Bosnian Muslim insignia.
It was not the smooth, peaceful transfer of power international monitors had hoped for as Vogosca became the first of the five Serb sectors in divided Sarajevo to come under the control of Bosnia's Muslim-Croat federation.
Vogosca looked like a ghost town when the Muslim and Croat police entered around 7 a.m., most of its 24,000 residents having fled rather than submit to enemy rule.
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