The Mehmed Pasa Sokolovic Bridge is a stone bridge over the Drina River in Visegrad, in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was commissioned by the Ottoman grand vizier Mehmed Pasa Sokolovic, who was born in the area, and designed by the great imperial architect Mimar Sinan. Its eleven arches create an elegant profile, and it is regarded as a masterpiece of Ottoman architecture. The bridge is the setting of Ivo Andric's novel The Bridge on the Drina, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. During the Bosnian War, it was the site of the killing of civilians, mostly Bosniaks, in 1992. The bridge was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007.
Before and after
- from 1575 to 1675Dutch Golden Age
- 8 February 1575Founding of Leiden University
- 1576Founding of Uraniborg
- 4 November 1576Sack of Antwerp
- 1577Construction of Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge
- 28 June 1577Birth of Peter Paul Rubens
- from 1578 to 1590Ottoman–Safavid War
- 1578Lala Mustafa Pasha's Caucasian campaign
- 23 January 1579Union of Utrecht
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