Visoko is a city located in Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 41,352 inhabitants.v Located between Zenica and Sarajevo, Visoko lies on the Bosna river where the river Fojnica merges into it. The municipality is organized into 25 local communities. The Visoko region has evidence of long continuous occupation, with the first traces of life dating back to 5th millennium BC, and archaeological excavations of Okolište have found one of the biggest neolithic settlement belonging to Butmir culture in southeast Europe. It was an early center of the Bosnian medieval state, and the site where the first Bosnian king Tvrtko I was crowned. Old town Visoki, located on Visočica hill was politically important fortress, and its inner bailey Podvisoki was an early example of Bosnian medieval urban area. After fall of Kingdom of Bosnia, medieval town Visoko grew as ottoman type of town, and key role in development was played by local Bosnian Ajas-pasha Ottoman rule ended in 1878 when Bosnian Vilayet was occupied by Austria-Hungary. On 11 November 1911, last years of Austro-Hungarian rule, it was almost completely burned down by fire, which was started by accident. Before Bosnian War, Visoko was biggest Exporter of textile and leather in socialist Yugoslavia From 2006, Visoko is home to tens of thousands tourists mainly because of Semir Osmanagić claims.
