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Monumental medieval tombstones in the Balkans
Stexc4x87ak UNESCO World Heritage SiteOfficial nameStexc4x87ci Medieval Tombstones GraveyardsTypeCulturalCriteriaiii, viDesignated2016 (40th session)Referencexc2xa0no.1504State Partyxc2xa0Bosnia and Herzegovinaxc2xa0Croatiaxc2xa0Montenegroxc2xa0SerbiaRegionEurope and North America
Stexc4x87ak (Serbian Cyrillic: xd0xa1xd1x82xd0xb5xd1x9bxd0xb0xd0xba, pronouncedxc2xa0[stxc4x9bxcbx90txc9x95ak]) or Stexc4x87ci in plural form (Serbian Cyrillic: xd0xa1xd1x82xd0xb5xd1x9bxd1x86xd0xb8, pronouncedxc2xa0[stxc4x9bxcbx90txc9x95tsi]) is the name for monumental medieval tombstones, that lie scattered across Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the border parts of Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.
[71][6] According to common thesis, especially represented by Bexc5xa1lagixc4x87, stexc4x87ci are an original Bosnian-Herzegovinian cultural-artistic medieval phenomenon.
[73] Some scholars considered that the chest form could have been inspired by Romanesque and Gothic houses from the coastal cities, while the ridge form by medieval Christian sarcophagus or local Bosnian wooden house.
Since the mid-20th century many scholars like Marian Wenzel,[83] once the world's leading authority on the art and artifacts of medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina,[84] concluded that the stexc4x87ci tombstones were a common tradition amongst Catholic, Orthodox and Bosnian Church followers alike.
[80][86] Sometime the inscriptions/motifs do reveal the confessional affiliation of necropolis/deceased to one of the three Church organizations in medieval Bosnia and Zachlumia.
[87][88] This interconfessionality of stexc4x87ci is one of their most remarkable features, and indicates high degree of Christianization of medieval Bosnian community.
Some other scholars proposed unconvincing and rejected theories; Ivo Pilar (1918) ideologically argued Croatian origin of medieval Bosnia,[95] later Dominik Mandixc4x87 considered them to be part of the ritual of burial by the pagan Croats from the Red Croatia, Ante xc5xa0kobalj similarly argued the Croatian theory,[93] Vaso Gluxc5xa1ac ideologically argued Serbian-Orthodox origin of both Bosnian Church and stexc4x87ci,[96] while Vladislav Skarixc4x87 considered they have represented Old Slavic "eternal home", and that initially were built from wood.
One of their enigmas is the fact they were not mentioned in local and foreign medieval documents.
He apparently wrote about them in the accompanying prospectus of Paris exhibition "Medieval art of the people of Yugoslavia" (1950).
The medieval Mramorje necropolis in Serbia is part of Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance and contains large number of stexc4x87ak tombs.
Locations of the UNESCO World Heritage sites "Stexc4x87ci Medieval Tombstones Graveyards")
The serial property of 28 component sites includes a selection of 4,000 medieval tombstones (stexc4x87ci) on the territory of four states: Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia, Montenegro and the Republic of Serbia.
The stexc4x87ci are exceptional testimony to the spiritual, artistic and historical aspects of the medieval cultures of southeastern Europe, an area where traditions and influences of the European west, east and south entwined with earlier traditions.
The stexc4x87ci are notable for their inter-confessionality, used for burial by all three medieval Christian communities, including the Orthodox Church, the Catholic Church and the Church of Bosnia (which lasted for about three centuries until the second half of the 15th century).
The characteristics that distinguish stexc4x87ci from the overall corpus of Europexe2x80x99s medieval heritage and sepulchral art, include the vast number of preserved monuments (over 70,000 located within over 3,300 sites), the diversity of forms and motifs, the richness of reliefs, epigraphy and the richness of the intangible cultural heritage.
Criterion (iii): A remarkable number of stexc4x87ci, of diversified form, are found in this part of southeast Europe, conveying an exceptional testimony to medieval European artistic and archaeological heritage, with traces of earlier influences (prehistoric, roman and early medieval).
Their reliefs, including decorative, symbolic, and religious motives as well as scenes from everyday life, are an extraordinary testimony of medieval culture.
Inscriptions in the selected graveyards offer an exceptional historical resource, and are associated with the cultures and histories of the medieval states in this region.
The authenticity of the serial property is established through the graveyards, tombstones (stexc4x87ci) and associated sepulchral art of the medieval period.