Original scientific paper
A Number of Poljica Republic Documents Written in the Village Truše (from the XVIth to the XVIIIth Century)
Milko Brković
Abstract
The subject matter of the article is a number of documents, papers in the broad sense of the word, which have not yet been published and which are unknown to the public. Their date inscription mentions the place of issue, the village Truše in the Poljica Republic, so that this was the basic criteria why the author labels them as such. He isolates 16 of them and analyses them from the viewpoint of auxiliary historical sciences. However, their number is far greater. They were written in the “bosanica” or the Croatian Cyrillic script while their contents are generally sale or gift contracts pertaining to land. The structure of these documents, although we are dealing with the period from the XVIth to the XVIIIth century, is very similar to the structure of Early Croatian documents especially as far as its vouchers are concerned and to the deeds of the Medieval office of the Bosnian-Hum rulers and potentates. On the basis of diplomatic-documents analysis the author concludes that the route of the Poljica document had this itinerary: its source and origin was in the Early Croatian office, that is the office of the Croatian national rulers, then in the Dalmatian notaries and church documents, from where it spread towards the later territory of Hum and Bosnia, from where afterwards, and as a unique instance, at the end of the Hum and Bosnian Middle Ages, it returned again from the latter territory to Poljica nearby Omiš.
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12131
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Publication date:
19.9.2003.
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