Mostar

Mostar, the chief town of Herzegovina, on the Narenta, about 35 miles from the Adriatic, connected by railway with the port of Metkovics, and viâ Sarajevo with Budapest. It takes its name ('old bridge') from a 16th-century bridge of one arch, 95 feet in span, has numerous mosques, and is the seat of a Roman Catholic and a Greek bishop. Wine is produced, and swords and tobacco manufactured. Pop. 12,655.