Donje Vardište

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Donje Vardište

Доње Вардиште
Village
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Vardište train station in 1906
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Donje Vardište
Coordinates: 43°45′40″N19°27′20″E / 43.76111°N 19.45556°E / 43.76111; 19.45556
Country Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity Flag of the Republika Srpska.svg  Republika Srpska
Municipality Višegrad
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)

Donje Vardište (Serbian Cyrillic : Доње Вардиште) is a village in the municipality of Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina. [1] It is on the border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Donje Vardište was one of the two end stations of the Bosnian Eastern Railway, which had been built from Sarajevo to Uvac and Vardište during the Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Construction of the line started in 1903. It was completed in 1906, using the 760 mm (2 ft 5+1516 in) track gauge. With the cost of 75 million gold crowns, which approximately translates to 450 thousand gold crowns per kilometer, it was one of the most expensive railways in the world built by that time. [2] The line was eventually extended to Belgrade in 1928. [3] Donje Vardište is today part of the narrow-gauge heritage railway Šargan Eight.

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References

  1. Official results from the book: Ethnic composition of Bosnia-Herzegovina population, by municipalities and settlements, 1991. census, Zavod za statistiku Bosne i Hercegovine - Bilten no.234, Sarajevo 1991.
  2. "Narrow-gauge railway in Višegrad". visegradturizam.com. Tourist organization of Višegrad. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  3. "Uskotračne željeznice - Grafikoni" [Narrow-gauge railways - Graphs]. zeljeznice.net (in Croatian). Retrieved 16 September 2016.

Coordinates: 43°45′40″N19°27′20″E / 43.76111°N 19.45556°E / 43.76111; 19.45556