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The Latin Bridge is the oldest of over a dozen bridges crossing the Miljacka River in Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The original wooden bridge dates to around 1541 but was replaced by a stone structure in 1565. After a flood, it was rebuilt around 1798. The bridge acquired its name because it connected to the Catholic quarter of the city (“Latinluk”). At the foot of the bridge on June 28, 1914, Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip shot and killed Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, sparking WWI.
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