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13-671: Cultural sites in Fojnica include the Holy Spirit Franciscan Monastery which houses an important part of the nation's cultural heritage maintained by the Franciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena . The Franciscan monastery in Fojnica has a library of philosophical and theological works printed from the 16th to the 19th centuries, with some dating back to 1481. The monastery is currently under renovation. Queen Catherine of Bosnia sought refuge from

26-663: A fire destroyed the Fojnica monastery.but it was rebuilt and put in function already in 1668. The friary's archive and library include cca. 12,500 volumes, including 13 incunabula and 156 works written in Bosnian Cyrillic . The monastery's museum collections holds the 15th century Ahd-Namah (the Order) of Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror guaranteeing security and freedom to the Franciscans . This document allowed

39-519: A group of artists started a project called "I write to you in Bosančica" which involved art and graphic design students from Banja Luka , Sarajevo , Široki Brijeg , and Trebinje . Exhibitions of the submitted artworks will be held in Sarajevo , Trebinje , Široki Brijeg , Zagreb , and Belgrade . The purpose of the project was to resurrect the ancient script and show the "common cultural past" of all

52-691: Is a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet that originated in medieval Bosnia . The term was coined at the end of the 19th century by Ćiro Truhelka . It was widely used in modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina and the bordering areas of modern-day Croatia (southern and middle Dalmatia and Dubrovnik regions). Its name in Serbo-Croatian is Bosančica and Bosanica the latter of which might be translated as Bosnian script . Serb scholars call it Serbian script , Serbian–Bosnian script , Bosnian–Serb Cyrillic , as part of variant of Serbian Cyrillic and deem

65-502: Is also on exhibit. Most of the works are philosophical and theological, printed from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The library's archive preserves more than 3,000 documents from the Ottoman Empire, with 13 of them dating back to 1481. The KONS inscribed the friary into the list of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina on November 22, 2011. Bosnian Cyrillic Bosnian Cyrillic , widely known as Bosančica ,

78-654: The Franciscans of the day to preach freely among the Catholics in BiH, which in turn enabled the preservation of Bosnian Catholicism through the centuries. The museum also houses the book of coats of arms, one of the iterations of semi-fictional Illyrian Armorials known as Fojnica Armorial , dated between 1635–1688—depending on researchers—with historical coats of arms of prominent medieval Bosnian , Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian families. A rare numismatic collection

91-658: The Holy Spirit is a Bosnian Franciscan monastery, first built in 16th century in Fojnica , Bosnia and Herzegovina . It is part of the Franciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena . We know for certain that Franciscans lived in Fojnica in 1463, in time of conquest of this part of Bosnia by the Ottomans . This was evident from one particularly important episode in Bosnian history , related to fra Anđeo Zvizdović , who went to

104-1049: The Ottomans in Kozograd , royal summer-residence in the mountains near Fojnica at the time, before making her way to Rome. Fojnica also has a spa center with thermal water, Reumal Fojnica . The Prokoško Lake is located in the west of the municipality. total: 12,829 total: 15,045 total: 16,296 Page text. [REDACTED]   Una-Sana [REDACTED]   Central Bosnia [REDACTED]   Posavina [REDACTED]   Herzegovina-Neretva [REDACTED]   Tuzla [REDACTED]   West Herzegovina [REDACTED]   Zenica-Doboj [REDACTED]   Sarajevo [REDACTED]   Bosnian Podrinje [REDACTED]   Canton 10 43°58′N 17°54′E  /  43.967°N 17.900°E  / 43.967; 17.900 Franciscan monastery in Fojnica Franciscan monastery of

117-484: The term "bosančica" Austro-Hungarian propaganda . Croat scholars also call it Croatian script , Croatian–Bosnian script , Bosnian–Croat Cyrillic , harvacko pismo , arvatica or Western Cyrillic . For other names of Bosnian Cyrillic, see below. The use of Bosančica amongst Bosnian Muslims was replaced by Arebica upon the introduction of Islam in Bosnia Eyalet , first amongst the elite, then amongst

130-627: The village of Milodraž , where the encampment of the Sultan Mehmed II el Fatih was at the time, where he received the Ahdname of Milodraž from the Sultan grating him a request for the Franciscans to remain in Bosnia, the return of the refugees and the basic rights to life and religious tolerance. A friary, older than the accepted date of foundation, probably existed in Fojnica, however it

143-608: The wider public. The first book in Bosančica was printed by Frančesko Micalović in 1512 in Venice. It is hard to ascertain when the earliest features of a characteristic Bosnian type of Cyrillic script had begun to appear, but paleographers consider the Humac tablet (a tablet written in Bosnian Cyrillic) to be the first document of this type of script and is believed to date from the 10th or 11th century. Bosnian Cyrillic

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156-403: Was located in another, older, building in another part of Fojnica, namely on a locality called Pazarnice. The earliest date of foundation is mid-15th century, however, mentioned in documents the earliest date is 1515, or at least it is certain that the church alone was already in existence at that time, but it was generally accepted that friary was in function from 1594. On Maundy Thursday 1664,

169-479: Was used continuously until the 18th century, with sporadic usage even taking place in the 20th century. Historically, Bosnian Cyrillic is prominent in the following areas: In conclusion, main traits of Bosnian Cyrillic include: The polemic about "ethnic affiliation" of Bosnian Cyrillic started in the 19th century, then reappeared in the mid-1990s. The polemic about attribution and affiliation of Bosnian Cyrillic texts seems to rest on following arguments: In 2015,

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