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Essay Archive - Bosnia-Hercegovina
Bosnia-Hercegovina
The origin of the arms with the argent between 6 fleur-de-lys,
which is now on the flag of the republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina, has long
puzzled me, but they are in fact the arms of the Kotromanic family, which
ruled Bosnia in the 14th and 1 5th centuries. Other arms have also been
attributed to Bosnia in the 19th century.
I finally thought of a way to get at this question of the origin
of the current Bosnian flag: numismatics, of course. I found a book by one
Ivan Rengjeo, Corpus der mittel-alterlichen Mnnzen von Kroatien, Slavonien,
Dalmatien und Bosnien, Graz, 1959, which is as exhaustive as you can ge....
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