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No. 00260

Longest Artillery Siege of a City in the 20th Century

Holder
Siege of Sarajevo
Date
1992-1996
Location
Yugoslavia
Certificate
GBR-C-2026-0000252

About this record

The siege of Sarajevo lasted 1,425 days from 1992 to 1996, the longest sustained artillery siege of a city in the 20th century.