Jajce

Jajce is a small 14th-century walled town in , well known in former Yugoslavia for its waterfalls, fortress and old town.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Citadel of the Walled city of Jajce and Saint Mary’s Church.

Castle
Photo: Kisanova, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jajce Citadel, or Jajce Fortress, is a major medieval fortress in Jajce, . It is the focal point as part of the , and as such protected as National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the KONS BiH.

Place of worship
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Saint Mary's Church, later Sultan Suleiman's Mosque or Fethija, was a place of worship in Jajce, . Along with the remnants of the adjoining Saint Luke's Bell Tower, it is a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Mosque
Photo: J budissin, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Carevo Polje and Klimenta.

Village
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.

Village
is a in the municipality of Jajce, .

Village
is a in the municipality of Jajce, .

Jajce

Latitude
44.3397° or 44° 20′ 23″ north
Longitude
17.2712° or 17° 16′ 16″ east
Population
7,170
Elevation
388 metres (1,273 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BA JAJ
Open location code
8FPV87QC+VF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2419009186
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3198934
Wiki­data ID
Q258429
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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”
  • Hindi: “यायत्से”
  • 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: “Yayça”
  • Ukrainian: “Яйце”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Jajce”
  • Urdu: “ججکے”
  • Urdu: “یایتسے”

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