Jajce
Jajce is a small 14th-century walled town in nortwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina, well known in former Yugoslavia for its waterfalls, fortress and old town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: InDoRoN, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Citadel of the Walled city of Jajce and Saint Mary’s Church.
Citadel of the Walled city of Jajce
Castle
Photo: Kisanova, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jajce Citadel, or Jajce Fortress, is a major medieval fortress in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the focal point as part of the Walled city of Jajce/Jajce Historic Site, and as such protected as National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the KONS BiH.
Saint Mary’s Church
Place of worship
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint Mary's Church, later Sultan Suleiman's Mosque or Fethija, was a place of worship in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Along with the remnants of the adjoining Saint Luke's Bell Tower, it is a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carevo Polje and Klimenta.
Carevo Polje
Village
Carevo Polje is a village in the municipality of Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the place where, in 1463, Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror ordered the execution of the last King of Bosnia, Stephen Tomašević.
Jajce
- Type: Town with 7,170 residents
- Description: town in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Categories: locality and local administrative entity
- Location: Central Bosnia Canton, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosanska Krajina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
44.3397° or 44° 20′ 23″ northLongitude
17.2712° or 17° 16′ 16″ eastPopulation
7,170Elevation
388 metres (1,273 feet)United Nations Location Code
BA JAJOpen location code
8FPV87QC+VFOpenStreetMap ID
node 2419009186OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Urdu—“Jajce” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Jajce”
- Arabic: “يائجة”
- Arabic: “يايتسي”
- Arabic: “يايجة”
- Armenian: “Յայցե”
- Azerbaijani: “Yaytse”
- Belarusian: “Яйцы (горад)”
- Belarusian: “Яйцы”
- Belarusian: “Яйцэ”
- Bosnian: “Jajce”
- Bosnian: “يايڄە”
- Bulgarian: “Яйце”
- Catalan: “Jajce”
- Cebuano: “Jajce”
- Chinese: “亚伊采”
- Chinese: “亞伊采”
- Croatian: “Jajce”
- Czech: “Jajce”
- Danish: “Jajce”
- Dutch: “Jajce”
- Finnish: “Jajce”
- French: “Jajce”
- Galician: “Jajce”
- German: “Jaitze”
- German: “Jajce”
- Greek: “Γιάιτσε”
- Hebrew: “יאיצה”
- Hungarian: “Jajca”
- Irish: “Jajce”
- Italian: “Jajce”
- Japanese: “ヤイツェ”
- Korean: “야이체”
- Latin: “Iaicia”
- Lithuanian: “Jaicė”
- Lombard: “Jajce”
- Macedonian: “Јајце”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jajce”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jajce”
- Norwegian: “Jajce”
- Persian: “یایسه”
- Polish: “Jajce”
- Portuguese: “Jajce”
- Russian: “Яйце”
- Serbian: “Jajce”
- Serbian: “Јајце”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jajce”
- Slovak: “Jajce”
- Slovenian: “Jajce”
- Spanish: “Jajce”
- Swedish: “Jajce”
- Tatar: “Яйтсе”
- Turkish: “Jajce”
- Turkish: “Yayça”
- Ukrainian: “Яйце”
- Upper Sorbian: “Jajce”
- Urdu: “ججکے”
- Urdu: “یایتسے”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Jajce”. Photo: InDoRoN, CC BY-SA 3.0.