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There Was No Orthodox Religion in Mediaeval Bosnia - The Orthodox Religion Was Introduced in Bosnia by the Turks in the 15th Century

Croats are autochthonous population on the present-day Bosnian territory. Moslems are mainly the native population that gradually abandoned the original religion of their ancestors and turned to islam after the arrival of the Turkish conquerors. Is should be noted that they adopted the religion but not the language of the conquerors of these Ctoatian lands. With time, Moslems deviated from their originis, in their desire to stop being a religious group and become a nation. There was no Orthodox religion in mediaeval Bosnia. During the 15th and 16th centuries the Turkish conquerors settled on the Bosnian territory several hetereogeneous ethnic gropus which, under the influence of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Serbian „ svetosavlje“ gradually lost their ethnicity feeling and began to feel behave like ethnic Srbs. The historical fact that the Serbian Orthodox religion in Bosnia began with the Turks was in contradiction with the greater Serbian plans and aspirations. Therefore the Serbian politicians, writers and publicists began (especially so after 1844) to fabricate the would-be evidence on the autochthronicity of the Serbian Orthodox religion in Bosnia. The author has briefly posed on the literature and only on some of the numerous authors and their respective would-be pieces of evidence of the autochthonicity of the Orthodox religion in Bosnia defying these by presenting the research and pieces of evidence produced by exactly the other Serbian authors, some of whom were members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts or the scientists who receiwed acclaim and renown by exactly the Serbs. Having confronted all the evidence and counter-evidence the author has arrived at the cocclusion that the Serbian Orthodox religion appeared in Bosnia simultaneously whith the Turkish raids in the 15th century, and later. The official Serbian Orthodox ecclesiastic organization was established in Bosnia after the year 1557 and the seat of the Orthodox bishop („ episkop“ ) in Sarajevo only in 1713.

Bosnian and Herzegovina; The Serbian Orthodox religion; history

Tekst "Srednjovjekovna Bosna bez pravoslavlja" je proširena verzija izlaganja na Simpozijumu « Povratak iskonu» , Zagreb, Starogradska vijećnica, 10., 11. i 12. prosinca 1992. Tekst je objavljen na hrvatskom jeziku u "Hrvatskom iseljeničkom zborniku" 1994., str. 137-147 ; zatim u Narodu, (Zagreb), IV.(1998), br. 56, str. 14-15. Tekst je na engleski jezik preveo Željko Novačić.