Bosnia today, unfortunately, in the context of various wishes and desires, is interpreted beyond its history and therefore beyond the importance of the Nemanjić crown, which was used to verify the legitimacy of the ruling line in these areas.

In the context of those desires and wishes, the truth is being latently bypassed that for the prestigious crown in Tvrtko's time, a pilgrimage was made to the grave of Saint Sava and not to the city square where, in Sarajevo, as a sign of multicultural identity, an illegal (absurd but true) monument to King Stefan Tvrtek (without named Stefan). The monument was erected without the consent of the Serbian member of the Commission for the Protection of Monuments, in spite of the Serbs, those who crowned Ban Tvrtko Kotromanić with the dignity of king. The question arises as to why the Serbian member of the Commission rebelled against the installation of the monument - the answer lies precisely in circumventing the truth and emphasizing the false identity of King Stefan Tvrtko, which as such corresponds to the narrative of multicultural society.

In the name of the multi-cultural society that those who illegally erected the monument brag about, it would be fair if the name Stefan was added to the name Tvrtko, because without the name Stefan, Tvrtko is not a king but only a ban. It would also be honorable to write his full, legitimate and historically confirmed title out of respect for his origin: Stefan Tvrtko Kotromanić, king of the Serbs, Bosnia and the Primorje. What is honorable and historically accurate will not be in the narrative that inherits the multicultural environment in which Tvrtko's monument was erected and which today rests on 5 percent of the Christian population. Sapienti watch!

October days 647 years ago brought Ban Tvrtko Kotromanić the desired prestige when he was crowned in the Mileševa monastery with a double wreath of the holy lineage of Nemanjić, becoming King Stefan Tvrtko. And while many multicultural narrators challenge King Stefan Tvrtko in the history of Serbian existence, it is a historical fact that on Mitrovdan in 1377, Ban Tvrtko ascended to the throne of the king of the Serbs, Bosnia and the Primorje with the name Stefan by Orthodox anointing in the Serbian sanctuary.

It is a hypocritical narrative, intensively present in the last decades to challenge the Serbian people's role as a nation-building nation, a nation that was the lifeblood of the South Slavic area where the name Stefan was a sign of rule and real identity, in this case an identity based on the crown of Tvrtko's ancestors - Nemanjić, with which he was crowned in Milesevi under the omophorion of his ancestor, Saint Nemanjić, Saint Sava of Serbia.

According to that narrative, the negator not only of the Serbian crown of King Stefan Tvrtko, but also of any connection he had with his Serbian ancestors, which means denying himself, King Tvrtko (without the name Stefan) is a multicultural ruler who was also a Muslim before Islam in this area and Bogomil, although Bogomils did not even exist in these areas, except for sporadic cases, as is the case with every sect, including the Bogomil one. He was anything but a Serbian king.

Excluding the Serbs from the existence of King Stefan Tvrtko, who is also a physical descendant of Nemanjić, is the denial of Bosnia and its real identity, in which the Serbian people are deeply woven, precisely by those who rise to establish it in an impersonal identity from the Kulin ban to our days. And Kula's ban would have something to be surprised about, if nothing but the way his charter is interpreted today, in which the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are clearly and prayerfully invoked. Just as the Father, Son and Holy Spirit invoked each other in the act of crowning Ban Tvrtko as King Stefan in the Serbian sanctuary of the Mileševa Monastery.

And while the Bosnian queen Katarina of the lineage of St. Sava rests in Rome, as written on her tomb, disputing the importance of St. Sava in the Drin area, which according to emperor Porphyrogenitus in the writings from the 10th century is inhabited by Serbs, is unnecessary. The Bosnian Ban Tvrtko, and from Mitrovdan 1377 King Stefan Tvrtko, would not agree with today's interpretation of the title of the Bosnian king and would find it strange that the Serbs and the name Stefan were torn from his royal name and who is defending him in the Sarajevo square from the Serbs and falsely represents when he wanted so much to be worthy of the crown and honor and imperial scepter of his first parents, the holy lords of Serbian kings and emperors.

Olivera Jovanovic
chief and responsible editor of Pravoslavlja

Source: Pravoslavlje, newspaper of the Serbian Patriarchate, number 1382 of October 15, 2024

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