O srednjovjekovnom bosanskom građaninu
On a Medieval Bosnian Citizen

Summary/Abstract: In the medieval Bosnia there was a strong urbanizing process which could be proved by the existance of cities which were different in economic and social aspects from villages and feudal fortresses. It was a type of a city (miner’s settlements, settlements planned as a support of feudal fortresses), the development of which started relatively late ( in the first half of the fourteenth century reaching the top in the fifteenth century) comparing to cities in European and some South-Slavic countries, but it progressed very fastly. In the first half of the fifteenth century in Bosnian country there were some seventy squares which had the size of the towns in the Balkans and Europe of that time. Their development was a challenge for merchants from Dubrovnik and other towns who came to Bosnia and rushed the development of the mentioned trade branches. Merchants appeared on the historical stage and gradually did some civilization shifts of the raw Bosnian society. The Bosnians learned fast. In mining they replaced the German miners, from the citizens of Dubrovnik they learned modern trade forms and instruments (drafts, trade companies, procurator) and better handicraft techniques. According to the sources there were 34 sorts of handicraft performed in Bosnia and Dubrovnik. Dubrovnik was to the medieval Bosnia everithing, window into the world, Petrograd.

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