Geodetski list, Vol. 77 (100) No. 2, 2023.
Original scientific paper
The White Bastion Fortress in Sarajevo in the Light of Historical Cartographic Sources
Nedim Tuno
orcid.org/0000-0002-1358-8435
; Građevinski fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu, Sarajevo, Bosna i Hercegovina
Elma Korić
orcid.org/0000-0001-8340-127X
; Orijentalni institut Univerziteta u Sarajevu, Sarajevo, Bosna i Hercegovina
Ivka Kljajić
orcid.org/0000-0001-6144-4172
; Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The paper contributes to the knowledge of the historical development, architectural and spatial features of the famous fortress White Bastion (Bijela tabija), erected in the Sarajevo settlement of Vratnik, by synthesizing data from available sources. The conducted research resulted in numerous cognitions about the construction and changes of this building throughout history, thanks to which many evident gaps in the previous historiography of the building were filled. New insights were achieved through the discovery, careful study, interpretation, and analysis of hitherto unpublished documents, primarily relating to authentic cartographic sources. The chronological comparison of the extensive corpus of collected cartographic sources and other graphic representations of this building, produced from the end of the 17th century to the second decade of the 20th century, combined with the available written historical documents, enabled a reliable monitoring of the design and several transformations of the fortress at Vratnik, from the mediaeval city, through the Ottoman Ičkala (inner fortress – citadel) to the Austro-Hungarian intermediate fortress White Bastion (Bijela tabija).
Keywords
White Bastion (Bijela tabija); graphic representations; cartographic sources; Sarajevo; fortress
Hrčak ID:
308567
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2023.
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