Key:stećak:relocated

Description
To specify an individual or group of stećaks relocated/moved from their original location. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: historic
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may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
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A key =yes is a stećak or group of stećaks moved from their original location and placed in museums, parks, squares, and other places for educational, and decorative purposes.

How to map

Draw as an area area along the necropolis outline a node node with the tag *historic=stećak. If consists of a significant individual stećaks draw those as an area inside necropolis area or set a node(s) node.

In addition, the following parameters should be given to describe the details of the object.

The following optional tags may also be useful on complement:

  • historic:civilization=* (or more precise subtags) - the civilization (culture) that originally created the feature
  • ref:kons=three- or four-digits number - both individual stećaks and stećak necropolises (graveyards/cemeteries) are listed as the National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina by KONS and is be referenced by this number
  • kons:inscription_date=* - date of inscription by kons
  • kons:decision_number=* - decision number for the inscribed by kons of individual stećak or grouped in necropolis
  • ref:whc=number - selected number of stećak necropolises is listed by UNESCO on the World Heritage List of protected monuments.

Tags to use in combination

Examples

  • Stećaks around National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, moved there from their different original locations.

Historical background

A stećak is a monumental gravestone slab or megalith, cut exclusively in Dinaric Karst limestone in variety of sizes and shapes which, however, followed ordered pattern, erected as a monument (tombstone) on top of the grave and mostly grouped in cemeteries or necropolises, but sometimes as tombstones for individual graves. Stećak necropolis is a large historic cemetery with elaborate stećak tombstone megaliths. The term implies a separate burial site at a distance from a settlement.

At present there are more than 60 thousand individual stećak tombstones in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and another several thousands in border areas of neighboring countries, mostly in necropolises comprised of few to few hundreds of individual stones. A stećak has been used as early as beginning of the 12th century to as late as mid to late 16th, in some cases early 17th century, for funerals or commemorative purposes.[1][2]

Stećaks that will later evolve into transitional variety of stećak-"nišan"s, a variety of stećak used in late medieval Bosnia by first converts to Islam after the Ottoman conquest of the Kingdom of Bosnia, could be mapped as stećak in combination with religious affiliation. Later still, these stećak-nišans will evolve into their final form as Muslim gravestones called nišan(s).[3]

On initiative of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, stećaks are inscribed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO since 2016. More than 4,000 individual monoliths are selected, and grouped in necropolises at 28 locations, of which 22 in Bosnia and Herzegovina,[4] two in Croatia, three in Montenegro, and three in Serbia.

Rendering suggestions

  • suggested by User:Santasa

See also

References

  1. ↑ Stećci: Kataloško-topgrafski pregled - Šefik Bešlagić, 1971
  2. ↑ Stećci i njihova umjetnost - Šefik Bešlagić, 1971
  3. ↑ Nišani petnaestog i šesnaestog vijeka u Bosni i Hercegovini - Šefik Bešlagić, 1978
  4. ↑ Stećci, BiH - UNESCO
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