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symbolically shown the achievement of the Habsburgs who made their rule over the ‘small Orient’ official with the annexation. Contrary to this monumental but unrealised initiative in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a whole range of monuments was raised in smaller cities to honour the Emperor during the annexation period. City squares were named after Franz Joseph59, parks and public buildings received the epithet ‘jubilee’60 after imperial approval, and the first visit of the Emperor to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1910 was also commemorated.61 In the same manner, commemorative busts of the Emperor were unveiled. As we learn from the coeval press, in 1910, “the first monument of this sort, to his Majesty in Bosnia and Herzegovina” was raised in Jajce, “the former capital of the Bosnian kings”.62 The bronze bust of the Emperor in ‘larger-than-life size’ was a gift of the sculptor Anton Grath, and it was placed at the initiative of the political authorities and members of the municipal associations of Jajce in order to let “the most merciful Emperor and king enter the royal city as a victor to be symboli- cally enthroned between its old walls”.63 Apart from Jajce, towns like Brčko, Bosanska Kostajnica, Blatnica and Trebinje are also mentioned as places where smaller monu- The Presentation of the Habsburg Dynasty in Bosnia and Herzegovina 175 Figure 3: Anton Floderer, Bird’s eye view towards the east of a project comprising a Parliament Building in Sarajevo and an open square with a statue of Emperor Franz Joseph, 1912. The Parliament Building was, according to the competition requirements, supposed to be built in front of the Sarajevo City Hall, which is situated at the eastern entrance to Sarajevo, between Kovači and Alifakovac hillside settlements (these are not shown correctly in Floderer’s proposal). This area is also known as the Old town which was built under the Ottoman Rule, whereas most of the representative buildings built under the Austro-Hungarian Rule were situated towards the western part of Sarajevo.