Bosnia Road Ways. Two on the loose. Dan with down travels anywhere.

Medjugorje region. War. Posters. Radko Mladic. Radovan Karadzic. And Ante Gotovina.

At first we believed these posters to be of Radko Mladic,

1. Radko Mladic: Bosnian Serb former General, arrested May 2011 after some 15 years in hiding. Cables from WikiLeaks suggest assistance from Russia in Mladic's concealment.

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Ratko Mladic. Identification tentative, Bosnia-Croatia border.

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2. Antu Gotovinu. Now we believe the poster above, and this below, to honor another military leader, Ante Gotovina, Antu Gotovinu. We finally found a translation of the words that are Croatian, and find that the "ANTU GOTOVINU" is a proper name, not a place, not another concept.

Antu Gotovinu. Ante Gotovina. Wording: "dom spremni i za domovinu cuvat cemo antu gotovinu"

This is a someone's photo-shopped poster: that large saluting hand could not possibly go with that head.

Mar

Pyramids near Sarajevo? No

Visocica Hill, Ancient Pyramid shape, geographic. A place missed, but probably not authentic as ancient pyramid within, as some sites suggested, see for examples: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-mystery-of-bosnias-ancient-pyramids-148990462/; http://www.archaeology.org/0607/abstracts/bosnia.html; and then, http://www.crystalinks.com/pyramidbosnia.html.

The location is some 20 miles northwest, at Visoko.

Mar

Bosnian Queen Katarina 15th C.

Katarina, Queen of Bosnia 15th Century. See http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/katarina.html. Bosnia ignores her. Buried where she died, faithful, in Rome. The Katarina site says her grave was "built over" when the altar was moved, or else she herself was moved, and an inconspicuous marker remains.

Shunted. How to restore honor, position, merit. See Katarina at http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/katarina.html.

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Dec

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Nov

Bosnia Herzegovina: Suddenly Cyrillic. Cyril, Methodius, Kliment.

The Cyrillic alphabet in use in the Herzegovina part of Bosnia Herzegovina poses special problems for figuring out road signs. The map may show there is a bypass around a particular town, but which of the signs points to it. End up following the sun.

Cyrillic: What is the origin of the alphabet, the word Cyrillic. The alphabet is used to write some 50 languages, including Russian, and many in Central Asia, Eastern Europe.

Jan

Mostar, En Route. The Bogomils: Roads run through them; Graveyards

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Sinj, Croatia, to Mostar, Bosnia

Bogomil graveyard, Bosnia. Riven by the road.

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Forcing Christian Doctrine "Unity" by death to dissenters

Crusades, Persecutions of "heretics"

Here: Gnostic Bogomils

Take back roads. Here, from Sinj, Croatia; to Mostar. Find roads plowing through history.

Bosnia and the Bogomils. The Bogomils were a group of Christians persecuted by Rome as heretic, and finally destroyed, says Rome. Others say they persisted until the 20th Century, mid 19th perhaps.

Jan

History. Bogomils: Gnostic roots, identifying old church

Bogomils. Gnostics.

The Balkans as Religious Crossroads

Gnostics in historical Christianity

Bogomil church, Roadside medieval church, Bosnia

The Bogomils were a Christian sect whose beliefs ran afoul of the Roman Catholic Church. They were declared heretics, and crusades commenced against them.

Jan

History. Effects of Bogomil persecution - include conversion to Muslim faith

Bogomil gravestone, Bosnia

Balkan wars. Ethnic cleansing. Familiar. Deep roots. Origins.

Driving from Sinj, Croatia, to Mostar, Bosnia, we passed and went right through groups and groups of headstones. There are people there on this headstone, and a cross.

What happens when one group tries to stamp out another - the persecuted may turn to others for deliverance. Here, many Bogomils turned to the Turks. See M.

Jan

Mostar - the Turkish Quarter; Mosques

The city of Mostar dates from the 15th century. See this extensive history, http://www.kakarigi.net/manu/briefhis.htm/. The town and its people -mainly from Orthodox Christian and Turkish Moslem, but also Roman Catholic Christian backgrounds (see posts on the old Bogomil heritage) - coexisted peacefully, in trade and community life, for centuries.

Mostar, Bosnia.

Dec

Mostar: Wars; Mostar, Old Bridge (reconstructed), a resuming life

Mostar Bridge

Mostar, Bosnia, once medieval bridge, now new after reconstruction

Mostar is known for its bridge over the River Neretva. See the history of Mostar at http://www.kakarigi.net/homeland/mostar. The bridge as shown here looks new, and is, but it is a reconstruction of the old medieval bridge that stood here for centuries. It symbolized unity among the different cultures residing there. It was bombarded by Croat tanks and fell in 1993, during the Balkan wars.

Bosnia Road Ways. Two on the loose. Dan with down travels anywhere.

Two people heading out, an improvised road trip. May opon travel return. Bosnia-Herzegovina: Itinerary. From Sinj, Croatia; through old Bogomil burial areas to Mostar, Medjugorje, and Capilyn; and back to Dubrovnik, Croatia. Trips hub: see europeroadways.com.