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VISOKO (or VISOKI)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 146 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VISOKO (or VISOKI) , a See also:town of Bosnia, on the See also:river Bosna, 15 M. N.W. of See also:Serajevo by See also:rail. Pop. (1895), about 5000. Visoko has a brisk See also:trade in See also:leather, carpets and See also:tobacco. Between the 13th and 16th centuries Visoko was only second to See also:Jajce as a stronghold of the Bosnian rulers. There were fortified palaces at Sutje6ka, and Bobovac, among the mountains on the See also:north. Bobovac, which had withstood many previous assaults, was betrayed to the See also:Turks• in 1463; at Sutjecka there is a Franciscan monastery, founded in 1391, often razed by the Turks, and finally rebuilt in '821. Just below Visoko See also:lay the town of Podvisoko, called Sotto Visochi by the Ragusans, which was the See also:chief mart of the See also:country from 1348 to 1430.

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