Stecak DECIPHERED! Oldest reference!

Stecak are monumental, medieval Bosnian tombstones that were erected primarily by followers of the independent Bosnian Church and are found nowhere else on earth.

One of the inscriptions on a particular stecak was recently deciphered properly, by international experts, and the translation has been published in numerous Bosnian magazines. It references the year 1094, the oldest confirmed reference of Bosnia as a separate entity in existence.

You can even now buy stecak souvenirs complete with the inscription in the modern Bosnian language.

The stecak read:



Which means:

This is a monument for Duke Nenc, The Great Duke of Bosnia, erected by his son Duke Muven, with the help of God and those loyal without any foreign help.

You, the one who will read my stone, you may have walked to the stars. And you came back because there is nothing there other than yourself.

Man can see what he has never seen, hear what he has never heard, taste what he has never tasted, be where he has never been before, but always and everywhere he can either find himself or not.

Much has happened in this world from my hand but nobody ever died or was killed because of me.

Would I have left my bones in a foreign land, even then I would be dreaming about Bosnia.

Man, in order not to be damned, don't touch me.

I came to rest here in the summer of 1094, during the drought, so there was not a single tear for me in the sky.

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Ko kaze to

Eh, zalosti

Ase pociva
Bosancica

Ne postoji Hrvatica ili Srbica
Prvi Bosanski rjecnik je izdan 1631 godine Uskufi

Srpski i Hrvatski dolaze tek 200 godina poslije