ULOGA GOSTA RADINA BUTKOVIĆA U IZGRADNJI FORTIFIKACIJA NA LOKALITETU STAROG MOSTA (uz osvrt na početak urbanizacije Mostara)
THE ROLE OF GUEST RADIN BUTKOVIĆ IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FORTIFICATIONS ON THE SITE OF THE OLD BRIDGE with reference to the beginning of the urbanization of Mostar

Summary/Abstract: his article uses a comparative method to verify the authenticity of data of Dubrovnik chroniclers Orbini and Luccari on the role of guest Radin Butković in building fortiications at the strategic crossing over the Neretva River, where the nucleus of Mostar was formed. In doing so, the prominent political position held by this dignitary of the Bosnian Church in the service of Grand Duke Stjepan Vukčić Kosača is taken into account. Although he is a religious minister and a person of spiritual vocation, his all-round engagement in secular afairs has been manifested in numerous recorded activities in international diplomacy. he data from the chronicles are placed in the historical context of Radin’s diplomatic engagements, recorded in the original material of the irst order, and are compared with the results obtained based on the use of modern methods in processing artifacts found during detailed archaeological excavations at the Old Bridge site. he immediate beginning of the formation of the urban core of Mostar is also traced chronologically. Urbanization within the Mostar valley is connected with the planned construction activities of the Ottoman Sanjak-bey Sinan Borovinić, a descendant of a prominent noble family from the time of the Kingdom of Bosnia.

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