🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina · Bosna i Hercegovina
Sarajevo is the one city where you can walk from an Ottoman bazaar to an Austro-Hungarian boulevard in fifty metres, and the join is marked on the pavement. Bosnia's scenes reward anyone who can tell a Habsburg façade from an Ottoman one — the border runs through the middle of towns here.
Bosnia and Herzegovina's collection needs 2 more rounds before it opens. These are live today.
Bosnia is a country of narrow valleys, and its towns are built along rivers with steep sides above them. The visual history is Ottoman below, Austro-Hungarian on top, socialist on the outskirts and repair work everywhere from the 1990s.
Architecture
Single-arch stone bridges, cobbled bazaars, low shopfronts with wooden shutters and pencil minarets are Ottoman, 1460–1878. Heavy stucco façades with mansard roofs and pseudo-Moorish detail are Austro-Hungarian, 1878–1918 — Vienna's idea of what Bosnia should look like.
Landscape
Green-blue water running fast over white limestone is the Neretva or Una. Steep forested slopes rising directly from a dense town centre is Sarajevo. Bare high plateau with sinkholes is Herzegovina's karst, hot and treeless in summer.
Period tells
Red resin poured into shell scars — Sarajevo Roses — dates a pavement to after 1996. Newly rebuilt stonework that is visibly whiter than the arch beside it is post-2004 reconstruction, most famously the rebuilt Stari Most.
A starting shortlist, oldest first. Every one of these makes a round that Bosnians can nail and everyone else has to work out.
Radimlja, HerzegovinaMedieval
Thousands of monolithic grave slabs cut with dancers, hunters and raised hands — a medieval iconography found nowhere else.
Mostar, on the NeretvaEarly modern
A single 29-metre stone arch with no visible support; the architect reportedly prepared his own funeral in case it fell.
Latin Bridge, SarajevoModern era
A wrong turn, a reversing car and two shots on a street corner that started the First World War.
Sarajevo and Mount BjelašnicaModern era
A socialist city hosted the Games; the bobsleigh track on Trebević became a ruin within a decade.
Sarajevo valleyModern era
The longest siege of a capital in modern warfare — 1,425 days, fought from the ridges the Olympics had used.
Bosnian history touches medieval & renaissance and the 20th century. Each of those eras has a timed round of its own — the same centuries, but questions drawn from every country in the library, so you find out whether you can date the rest of the period as confidently as you can date Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Medieval & Renaissance
Bosnian moments here: The stećci tombstones carved (1300), Stari Most completed (1566).
20th century
Bosnian moments here: Franz Ferdinand shot (1914), The Winter Olympics (1984), The siege of Sarajevo begins (1992).
Dates, order and places from the moments above. Answers are printed underneath — cover them with a hand if you want to test yourself, or read them out for a quiz round.
1.The stećci tombstones carved — what year?
Answer1300
Thousands of monolithic grave slabs cut with dancers, hunters and raised hands — a medieval iconography found nowhere else.
2.Stari Most completed — what year?
Answer1566
A single 29-metre stone arch with no visible support; the architect reportedly prepared his own funeral in case it fell.
3.Franz Ferdinand shot — what year?
Answer1914
A wrong turn, a reversing car and two shots on a street corner that started the First World War.
4.The Winter Olympics — what year?
Answer1984
A socialist city hosted the Games; the bobsleigh track on Trebević became a ruin within a decade.
5.The siege of Sarajevo begins — what year?
Answer1992
The longest siege of a capital in modern warfare — 1,425 days, fought from the ridges the Olympics had used.
6.Which came first in Bosnia and Herzegovina — the stećci tombstones carved or Stari Most completed?
AnswerThe stećci tombstones carved, in 1300.
Stari Most completed follows in 1566, 266 years later.
7.Which came first in Bosnia and Herzegovina — Franz Ferdinand shot or the Winter Olympics?
AnswerFranz Ferdinand shot, in 1914.
The Winter Olympics follows in 1984, 70 years later.
8.Where in Bosnia and Herzegovina would you drop the pin for the stećci tombstones carved?
AnswerRadimlja, Herzegovina
Thousands of monolithic grave slabs cut with dancers, hunters and raised hands — a medieval iconography found nowhere else.
9.Where in Bosnia and Herzegovina would you drop the pin for Stari Most completed?
AnswerMostar, on the Neretva
A single 29-metre stone arch with no visible support; the architect reportedly prepared his own funeral in case it fell.
10.How far apart are the oldest and newest Bosnian moments in this collection?
Answer692 years
From the stećci tombstones carved in 1300 to the siege of Sarajevo begins in 1992.
You don't need a photograph or a map reference. Name a moment — "The stećci tombstones carved, Radimlja, Herzegovina" — and the builder fills in the year, drops the pin, writes the factoid and paints a 360° scene you can stand inside. Publish it and it joins this collection for everyone.
Step 1
One line is enough — an event, a place, a year you half-remember. Or let the AI draft five moments around a theme.
Step 2
The year, the exact coordinates and a one-sentence factoid come back filled in. Everything stays editable.
Step 3
A 4K 360° panorama of that place in that year, ready to spin around inside the game.
🇧🇦 Put your own scene on /play/bosnia-and-herzegovina
Credits cover the AI: 1 to auto-fill a moment, 3 to draft five at once, 25 for each 4K panorama. Your map stays yours — you choose whether it's public, unlisted or private.
Moments Bosnians want to see in the game. Vote them up — the top of this list gets built next.
Each round drops you into a 360° scene from Bosnia and Herzegovina's past. Look around for clues — architecture, clothing, technology, landscape — then place the scene on the world map and pick the year. You score up to 5,000 points a round: closer in distance and closer in time both pay. Five rounds make a game.
No. You can play Bosnian rounds straight away with no sign-up. Signing in saves your XP, keeps your character progressing through history, and puts you on the leaderboards.
The collection spans 1300 to 1992 — from the stećci tombstones carved through to the siege of sarajevo begins. New moments are added as the community suggests them.
Yes, completely free. There is no paywall on rounds, the daily challenge, or the leaderboards.
Yes — that's how the collection grows. Suggest any moment Bosnians would recognise instantly, like the stećci tombstones carved. Approved suggestions get built into playable 360° rounds and credited on the page.
There are currently 1 playable Bosnian rounds, shuffled so each game is different. The pool grows every time a community suggestion is built.
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