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City in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Visoko (Bosnian pronunciation: [ʋǐsɔkɔː]) is a city located in Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 41,352 inhabitants. Located between Zenica and Sarajevo, Visoko lies on the Bosna river where the river Fojnica merges into it. The municipality is organized into 25 local communities. The Visoko region has evidence of long continuous occupation, with the first traces of life dating back to 5th millennium BC, and archaeological excavations of Okolište have found one of the biggest neolithic settlement belonging to Butmir culture in southeast Europe.It was an early political and commercial center of the Bosnian medieval state, and the site where the first Bosnian king Tvrtko I was crowned. Old town Visoki, located on Visočica hill was politically important fortress, and its inner bailey Podvisoki was an early example of a Bosnian medieval urban area. After the fall of the Kingdom of Bosnia, medieval Visoko grew as an Ottoman town, and a key role in development was played by local Bosnian Ajas-pashaOttoman rule ended in 1878 when Bosnian Vilayet was occupied by Austria-Hungary. On 11 November 1911, in the last years of Austro-Hungarian rule, it was almost completely burned down by fire, which was started by accident. Before the Bosnian War, Visoko was the largest exporter of textile and leather in socialist Yugoslavia As of 2006, Visoko is hosts tens of thousands of tourists mainly because of Semir Osmanagić claims. .... Learn more at Wikipedia