The same arguement, I'm not surprised.
I'll just re-post what I posted before.
Originally posted by Mila
As an aside, though...
Nationality was rarely referenced in these letters written by Bosnian
nobility and aristocracy. When it was referenced, Croatian and Serbian
were referenced roughly equally and only once each in the sense of
nationality (all other references were to language). For example, the
same Stejpan Kotromanic you say claimed he was Serbian also told the
Pope he spoke Croatian. But both are overshadowed by "Dalmatian" and "Slavic", which were the most common terms used to reference nationality - especially in legal or otherwise official texts.
"One can tally ethnic traits of medieval Bosnian rulers and find either
Croat or Serb characteristics in the list. However, such simplistic
approach is dated and discarded: there is no sign that population of
pre-Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina, whichever social stratum, had
developed Croatian or Serbian ethnic consciousness even in a medieval
sense of the word."
- Franz Miklosic, Monumenta Srbica
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And add that it was quite common for Roman and Byzantine authorities to refer to us as either Croatia or Serbia.
The people of Bosnia and Herzegovina, however, did no such thing until
the Kotromanic dynasty, when Bosnia conquered a portion of western
Serbia.
At this point Kotromanic declared himself the King of Bosnia, and of the Serbs, and of the Croats.
What you engraved on a tombstone centuries later, or what outsiders say about us, doesn't really matter to me.
We've decided, with significant historical proof, that we are not
Serbian. We have no interest in being Serbian and, given the evidence,
feel we never really were.
You can claim we are all we like. It doesn't raise our dead from the
graves and it doesn't give you the right to claim our land. If, as you
believe, we are Serbs - you should be ashamed for what you've done to
your "Serbian" brothers. Not on an online chat room posting irrelevent
bits of s--t from God know's where.
The tombstone for Mother Theresa in Mitrovica says she was a Serb, the one in her birthplace says she was Albanian.
Go bother Kosovar Albanians and try to steal their history first.
Edited by Mila