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Bosnia came under Ottoman rule in 1463 and Herzegovina in the 1480s; the region remained Ottoman until it passed under Austro-Hungarian administration in 1878.
When the last Bosnian king refused to pay tribute, Mehmed II took Bosnia in 1463. Sarajevo and Mostar were founded or grew as cities in the Ottoman period, and a large part of the population became Muslim. The Treaty of Berlin in 1878 handed the administration of the region to Austria-Hungary, which annexed it in 1908.
The Hodidjed district and the Saray plain, where the city grew, came fully under Ottoman rule.
With the full conquest of Bosnia the area became part of the sanjak of Bosnia; the city grew in the Ottoman period.
According to the TDV encyclopedia Mostar must have been taken shortly before Blagaj in 1466–1468; the conquest of Herzegovina was completed in 1483.
The famous Mostar Bridge (Stari Most) was built in the Ottoman period.
After the Congress of Berlin, Austro-Hungarian forces entered the city on 19 August 1878 despite fierce resistance.
Bosnia and Herzegovina was placed under Austro-Hungarian administration; the city formally became part of that state in 1908.
Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina, ending the remaining Ottoman legal rights.
Source: TDV Encyclopedia of Islam, article “BOSNA-HERSEK” (in Turkish) and the atlas's city pages. Present-day borders are used.