Sarajevo
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Sarajevo was one of the main cities of the Balkans and territory important to all sides of the conflicts erupting in the Third Tiberium War. Kane, apparently fascinated with Eastern Europe, chose Sarajevo - the city where Gavrillo Princip, a member of the Black Hand anarchist group, triggered the First Great World War - as the site of his first Temple of Nod. Before the Tiberium Era, the city was the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Temple of Nod was constructed as the first site in Europe, after Africa fell under total Nod control. However, the location of the Temple was discovered and after a two days siege, the Temple was destroyed by an ion cannon, presumably taking down Kane also. GDI secured the area and declared it a secure territory. Their presence in the area was extreme, but eventually was reduced to a skeleton science crew by 2030. This proved to be a tactical error, as when Kane reappeared before the Brotherhood, one of his first orders was recapturing the Temple of Nod in Sarajevo from GDI. The weak resistance was swiftly crushed by Nod forces under General Anton Slavik, but the secrets within had already been taken by the mutants.
Following the war, the area was designated yellow zone Y-1 and partially decontaminated to support regular human inhabitants. As the GDI gradually withdrew their forces, Nod moved in, and at the site of the old Temple a new, larger Temple Prime was erected which soon became Kane's seat of power including 3 Ion Disrupters that stop Ion cannons from firing on Sarajevo in a crater. The Temple was built over a vast network of underground tunnels and natural caverns. Kane stored liquid Tiberium he needed for his plan of luring the Scrin to Earth. Eventually, after triggering the Third Tiberium War, the Temple was hit by an ion cannon strike, triggering a massive Tiberium explosion that destroyed much of the Balkans, turning them into a ravaged red zone.
