Mehmed Spaho

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Mehmed Spaho (born 1883; died 1939, in Sarajevo) was a prominent and influential Bosnian Muslim political figure.

Spaho received his primary and secondary education in Sarajevo before he studied law in Vienna. After he got his diploma in Vienna, he quickly gained an important political role.

Spaho was one of the most important members of the Bosnian Muslim community at the time. He became also the first Bosniak to have an important political influence while Bosnia and Herzegovina was part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.