Mehmed-beg Kapetanović Ljubušak

محمد بك كابتانوفيتش ليوبوشاك

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Sarajevo

Bosnian writer, folklorist and politician from Vitina near Ljubuški, second mayor of Sarajevo (1893–1899): a former Ottoman kaymakam who brought electric lighting and the first electric tram to Sarajevo, founded the journal Bošnjak (1891), and collected some 5,000 folk proverbs in Narodno blago (1887), writing as Muhibi.

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writer · Politician · calligrapher
Region
Anatolia
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1800182518501875190019251950
The Colonial Era · The Gunpowder Empires · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Razzaq al-Bitar · Almamy Suluku · Alpha Yaya Diallo · Altaf Hussain Hali · Cheikh Bouamama

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Sarajevo

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    Sarajevo

    People and things also explored

    Ali-beg Firdus· Alija Izetbegović· Edhem Mulabdić· Edin Džeko· Fehim Spaho· Hamdija Kreševljaković· Husein Đozo· Husein Smajić

    Sources

    • Mehmed-beg Kapetanović Ljubušak — English Wikipedia
    • Mehmed-beg Kapetanović Ljubušak — Bosnian Wikipedia
    • Mehmed-beg Kapetanović Ljubušak — Croatian Wikipedia
    • Mehmed-beg Kapetanović Ljubušak — Wikidata
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    islam.museum contributors. “Mehmed-beg Kapetanović Ljubušak”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/mehmed-beg-kapetanovic-ljubusak/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.

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