Paradigma Bosna i bošnjaštvo: historijsko-politološko razumijevanje
PARADIGM BOSNIA AND BOSNIAC: HISTORICAL-POLITICAL UNDERSTANDING

Summary/Abstract: Bosnia has historically existed as a territorial, cultural, political, legal and state identity. But this identity was, and still is, the main "object" and the hegemonic urge of Serbian aggressive nationalism. The expansionist Serbian national policy, ultimately, has oriented towards negation of Bosnian identity and historical individuality. As opposed to the Great Serbian unity and domination of lies, the scientific historiography of Nada Klaić, a respected historian and expert for Bosnia, believed that "the birth of a medieval Bosnian state should have attracted attention, not only that it appeared among its neighbours the oldest, but also because the Serbian and Croatian formulas were never applied to Bosnia. " Elaborating the historical processes that took place in the state-legal area within the South Slavs, Nada Klaić argued testified about the deep historical source and the continuity of Bosnia's state-legal and political autonomy.She said: "Then the Bosnian countries started their independent political development, even at the same time as those Slavs who later occupied the Croatian and Serbian lands, but the huge difference that the independent Bosnian political development was never interrupted either by Croats or by Serbs who settled in the Dinaric mountains just at the end of the eighth century.” Nada Klaić showed that Bosnia, the oldest Balkan state, had borders with Serbia and Croatia, and that in that state lived a clearly identifiable etnikum of Bosniaks, who were neither Serbs nor Croats, and that it was historically, ethnically and in all cases recognizable

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