{"id":11376,"date":"2025-12-29T22:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fondacijabassania.org\/en\/?p=11376"},"modified":"2025-12-29T22:03:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:03:57","slug":"apologists-of-the-bosnian-reconquista-domagoj-nikolic-and-vinko-klaric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fondacijabassania.org\/en\/blog\/apologists-of-the-bosnian-reconquista-domagoj-nikolic-and-vinko-klaric\/","title":{"rendered":"Apologists of the Bosnian Reconquista: Domagoj Nikoli\u0107 and Vinko Klari\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By: Emir Medanhod\u017ei\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have followed Domagoj Nikoli\u0107 and Vinko Klari\u0107 for a long time on the media scene and on social networks, and about ten years ago I realized that they are not connoisseurs of Bosnia and its history and heritage as they present themselves to be &#8211; especially after Vinko published a post in which he referred to a Muslim tombstone\/monument (<em>ni\u0161an<\/em>) from Baki\u0107i near Olovo as an ancient obelisk, and Domagoj described a Bosnian church with medieval tombstones (<em>ste\u0107ci<\/em>) in Prijevor near Bile\u0107a as an Orthodox church allegedly built by Hasan Pasha Predojevi\u0107 for his mother, which is a classic mythological Greater-Serbian falsehood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The continuation of these nebulous theories is the claim that Bosnian medieval tombstones (ste\u0107ci) originate from the Illyrian period, or rather that they are not Bosnian at all. This theory can be dismantled like a house of cards with several arguments, such as: if they were made by the Illyrians, why are they absent among other Illyrian tribes &#8211; the Histrians, Veneti, Liburnians, Pannonians, Dardanians, and Docleatae; all bone samples found beneath medieval tombstones (ste\u0107ci) date to the Middle Ages; how hard stone could have been carved with bronze tools, and so on. A third dangerous thesis is that, under the guise of some imaginary Croatian Illyrianism, they are reviving Yugoslavia (we know how such entities were bloodily created and how they collapsed), which in fact represents the pacification of Bosniaks ahead of a new genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the latest book by Domagoj Nikoli\u0107 and Vinko Klari\u0107 &#8220;Where Eagles Gather&#8221; the cards are laid on the table, making it evident that they may be apologists of the Bosnian Reconquista (reconquest), which has been waged against Bosnia since the 16th century through the writing of books, propaganda, and political manipulation. In this book they list all those so-called respected learned figures of anti-Bosnian orientation. The list is lengthy: from Mavro Orbini, Ritter Vitezovi\u0107, Ljudevit Gaj, ban Jela\u010di\u0107, Ivan Ma\u017eurani\u0107, Petar Preradovi\u0107, Strossmayer, Stadler, Star\u010devi\u0107, and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So that everything is not entirely bleak, in this book I was pleasantly surprised that for the first time they mention the Bosnian Church, Arianism, and Islam &#8211; topics they had never mentioned before &#8211; so we may assume that they have read our book &#8220;From Bato to Kulin ban&#8221;, in which we described in detail the roots, emergence, and development of the Bosnian Church and the Bosnian state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Emir Medanhod\u017ei\u0107 I have followed Domagoj Nikoli\u0107 and Vinko Klari\u0107 for a long time on the media scene and on social networks, and about ten years ago I realized that they are not connoisseurs of Bosnia and its history and heritage as they present themselves to be &#8211; especially after Vinko published a post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondacijabassania.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondacijabassania.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondacijabassania.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijabassania.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijabassania.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijabassania.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11417,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijabassania.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11376\/revisions\/11417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijabassania.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondacijabassania.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijabassania.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijabassania.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}