• The Bridge on the Drina is a historical novel by the Yugoslav writer Ivo Andrić. It revolves around the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad, which...
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    The Drina (Serbian Cyrillic: Дрина, pronounced [drǐːna]) is a 346 km (215 mi) long river in the Balkans, which forms a large portion of the border between...
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    Višegrad, over the Drina River in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina part of the Republika Srpska entity. It was completed in 1577 by the Ottoman court architect...
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    Swedish, her greatest feat was her translation of Ivo Andrić's novel The Bridge on the Drina in 1960. She was married to Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman...
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    Andric's novel "The Bridge on the Drina", follows Serapheim execution (1.) closely. Excerpt: The Bridge on the Drina 9. A literary rendition in The Casket, from...
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    Višegrad (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    in his novel The Bridge on the Drina. A tourist site called Andrićgrad (Andrić Town), dedicated to Andrić, is located near the bridge. Višegrad is a South...
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    Ivo Andrić (category Recipients of the Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour)
    his most important works, including Na Drini ćuprija (The Bridge on the Drina). Following the war, Andrić was named to a number of ceremonial posts in...
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  • a promotion that was held in the Central Bank of BH. The reverse design which depicts a bridge is meant to resemble the euro banknotes, which were also...
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    Podrinje (redirect from Drina Valley)
    (Serbian Cyrillic: Подриње) is the Slavic name of the Drina river basin, known in English as the Drina Valley. The Drina basin is shared between Bosnia...
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    increase of the library fund. Thanks to Andrić wish that the original manuscript of the novel The Bridge on the Drina be kept in Sarajevo, the current Museum...
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    between the villages of Šćepan Polje (Montenegro) and Hum (Bosnia and Herzegovina) to form the Drina river (a branch of the Danube watershed). The Tara River...
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    Nobel Prize winning author Ivo Andrić wrote his most famous work, The Bridge on the Drina, in Belgrade. Other prominent Belgrade authors include Branislav...
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    Ivo Andrić's book The Bridge on the Drina, Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad, was constructed by Mimar Sinan, the most famous Ottoman architect,...
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    eleven-arched Višegrad bridge in his hometown of Višegrad. The construction and history of the bridge is the topic of the novel The Bridge on the Drina (Serbian: Na...
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    sent it to the Berlin Zeughaus where it was put on display in the military museum until 1945 when it disappeared. The Bridge on the Drina (1945) by Ivo...
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    comics emerged in the 1930s and the medium remains popular today. Ivo Andrić (The Bridge on the Drina) is a Serbian author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature...
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    ćuprija", based on the book The Bridge on the Drina, by Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Ivo Andrić. His last name is used in the town name Andrićgrad...
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  • her and her family as a basis for many of the characters in his novel The Bridge on the Drina. When he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1961, 23 years...
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  • Battle of Višegrad (category Articles missing coordinates without coordinates on Wikidata)
    Yugoslavia during World War II. The Chetnik forces of 2,500 captured Višegrad, destroyed big railway bridge across river Drina and continued their advances...
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    No. 30, early prints of M.C. Escher (The Bridge and Castrovalva), and the first designs of the Brno chair and the Tugendhat chair. 1955 in literature and...
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  • The Blessed Martyrs of Drina (Croatian: Drinske mučenice) are the professed Sisters of the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Charity, who died during...
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    description of the vertical impalement of a Serbian rebel by Ottoman authorities can be found in Ivo Andrić's novel The Bridge on the Drina. Andrić was later...
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    Andrić's writings, such as his monumental novel Na Drini ćuprija ("The Bridge on the Drina", 1945). His stories show both immense love for individuals and...
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  • 2021); The Many Translations of Winnie-the-Pooh lists 74 languages. Retrieved 10 April 2022. Publications in Many Languages, Anne Frank Guide "Thor Heyerdahl...
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  • Višegrad, by Muslims, is described in Ivo Andrić's 1945 novel The Bridge on the Drina. Nielsen 2014, p. 101. Velikonja 2003, p. 141 (Mitrović 1984, p...
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    Kusturica's film adaptation of the novel The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić.[citation needed][needs update] The town has a lot of shops and services for incoming...
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    Njegoš called the "Tragic hero of Kosovo thought". The martyrdom of Radisav, a character from Andrić's most famous novel The Bridge on the Drina (1945), has...
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  • Hall and Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (16th) Aztec by Gary Jennings (16th) The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić (16th-20th) The Tournament by Matthew...
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  • Belgium (Het verdriet van België) by Hugo Claus (WW II and after) The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić (1500s–1900s) Alfarrábios by José de Alencar (Colonial...
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  • The Drina Regatta (Serbian Cyrillic: Дринска Регата) is a tourist and recreational event held on the Drina River. It is active since 1994 and is organised...
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