Editing Sarajevo (section)

===Ancient times===
{{Main|Stari Grad, Sarajevo}}
[[File:Butmirska vaza.jpg|thumb|[[Neolithic]] period [[Butmir culture|Butmir]] vase]]

One of the earliest findings of settlement in the Sarajevo area is that of the Neolithic [[Butmir culture]]. The discoveries at [[Butmir]] were made on the grounds of the modern-day Sarajevo suburb [[Ilidža]] in 1893 by [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]] authorities during the construction of an agricultural school. The area's richness in [[flint]] was attractive to Neolithic humans, and the settlement flourished. The settlement developed unique ceramics and pottery designs, which characterize the Butmir people as a unique culture, as described at the International Congress of Archaeologists and [[anthropology|Anthropologists]] meeting in Sarajevo in 1894.<ref>[http://www.sarajevo-tourism.com/eng/sarajevothroughhistory.wbsp "The Culture & History"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212025705/http://www.sarajevo-tourism.com/eng/sarajevothroughhistory.wbsp |date=12 December 2007 }}, Tourism Association of Sarajevo Canton, Retrieved on 3 August 2006.</ref>

The next prominent culture in Sarajevo was the [[Illyrians]]. The ancient people, who considered most of the [[Balkans#Western Balkans|Western Balkans]] as their homeland, had several key settlements in the region, mostly around the river [[Miljacka]] and the Sarajevo valley. The Illyrians in the Sarajevo region belonged to the ''[[Daesitiates]]'', the last Illyrian people in Bosnia and Herzegovina to resist [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] occupation. Their defeat by the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] emperor [[Tiberius]] in 9 AD marks the start of Roman rule in the region. The Romans never built up the region of modern-day Bosnia, but the [[Colonies in antiquity|Roman colony]] of Aquae Sulphurae was near the top of present-day Ilidža, and was the most important settlement of the time.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.aneks8komisija.com.ba/main.php?id_struct=50&lang=4&action=view&id=2498 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013171041/http://www.aneks8komisija.com.ba/main.php?id_struct=50&lang=4&action=view&id=2498 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-10-13 |title=Commission to preserve national monuments |date=2007-10-13 |access-date=2018-08-14}}</ref> After the Romans, the [[Goths]] settled the area, followed by the [[Slavs]] in the 7th century.<ref name=Brit>"Sarajevo", ''New Britannica'', volume 10, edition 15 (1989). {{ISBN|0-85229-493-X}}.</ref>