Category
page 1Clock towers
clock tower
tower with a large clock that can be read from afar
Lazar the Hilandarian
Serbian Orthodox monk and inventor
Ottoman clock tower
right|thumb|375x375px|Sarajevo Clock Tower|Sarajevo sahat-kula
Sahat-kula (Bosnian: sahat-kula, Serbian Cyrillic: сахат-кула or сат-кула (Macedonian: Саат кула) literally, "clock tower") is a type of clock tower characteristically found in Bosnian market towns (čaršije), as well as of other settlements that were under the rule or influence of the Ottoman Empire. They were built exclusively in the European part of the Ottoman Empire, particularly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as an Islamic variation of the Western European bell tower, and have become a symbolic architectural feature of Bosnia and