Talk:East Sarajevo

I think the list of municipalities is wrong. Ilidža, Stari Grad and Novo Sarajevo are all municipalities of the City of Sarajevo, part of the Sarajevo canton of the Muslim-Croat Federation. (See Sarajevo under Divisions of Sarajevo). Sokolac and Pale are both in the Republika Srpska. Istočno (or Srpsko) Sarajevo itself is a very small and run-down suburb of Sarajevo, just beyond the city boundary and just inside RS territory, although on Serbian maps of the region it appears as a major city next to Sarajevo. It isn't beyond the bounds of possibility that similar wishful thinking has led to the East Sarajevo authorities counting areas not actually controlled by them as municipalities of their city, so maybe in that case the article wouldn't technically be inaccurate. Can anyone shed some light on this? Mattwhiteski 17:20, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

I just checked the article Sarajevo Canton, which also lists Trnovo as part of the Sarajevo Canton (and therefore not part of East Sarajevo). That only leaves Pale and Sokolac. Pale is about 20km from Sarajevo, Sokolac is 50km away. Can a town which is larger than another one, and thirty miles away on the other side of a mountain, be a municipality of that town? Mattwhiteski 17:32, 1 January 2006 (UTC)