Čengić vila (Cyrillic: Ченгић вила) is a neighbourhood in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The neighborhood is a part of the Novo Sarajevo municipality. It is divided into the Čengić vila I and Čengić vila II units. Čengić Vila is home to 9,282 residents.[citation needed]

The neighbourhood's name Čengić derives from a family name, while Vila refers to a villa. Specifically, Ester Lazanji Čengić[1] built her residence in that part of the town in the 19th century, and people started calling the surrounding area "Čengić vila".

References

  1. ^ Hamdija Kreševljaković, "Čengići", Sarajevo 1959., str. 24. Sarajevski grafički zavod, 1959. 1959. Retrieved 23 August 2013.

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