Stolac

 ( Cities And Towns In The Federation Of Bosnia And Herzegovina ) 

These stećak tombstones are carved with epitaphs, detailed portraits of the deceased, and motifs such as grapevines, hunting scenes and wild animals. Five of the Radimlja tombstones are thought to mark the graves of members of the Hrabren Miloradović Vlach family.

Nine historical layers compose Stolac's architectural ensemble: pre-history, Illyrian-Roman period, the early Middle Ages, advanced and late Middle Ages, Ottoman period, Austro-Hungarian period, and the time of the first and second Yugoslavia. A multitude of various influences on the architecture of the town, in which contrasts and similarities are frequently evident as well as planning and full spontaneity, lend this town a complex image. Despite its unusual history and inclusion into four empires (Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian), three kingdoms (Bosnian, Hungarian and Yugoslav), three world's monotheistic religions - Christianity (Orthodox Christianity and Catholicism), Islam, and Judaism, the historical core of Stolac is still a coherent and harmonious cultural-historical monument with individual properties grown together into one ensemble.

During the Yugoslav Wars, a number of monuments were demolished by Croat extremists as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing, including the town's four mosques, dating from the 16th to 18th centuries, and the Orthodox Church of the Holy Assumption of Christ.Robert Bevan, The Destruction of Memory, pp. 47-47

In 2003 the Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina designated Stolac Old Town as a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Article 3 of that decision provides that “only research and conservation work and rehabilitation and restoration works, shall be allowed to be carried out, including the works aimed at promoting the National Monument” and “no buildings or any temporary and permanent structures shall be allowed to be constructed and erected at the site of the national monument unless their sole purpose is to protect and promote the monument.”

The saga restarted in 2019 when the Catholic Church Parish Office of St. Elias the Prophet in Stolac decided to build an additional six crosses to complete the “Stations of Cross.” The Stolac Municipal Council greenlighted the project in November. Mayor Boskovic claims the six crosses fall in the second zone of the protected area and do not desecrate the monument and that the municipality has a positive opinion from the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton's Institute for Protection of National Monuments. The new construction commenced in early 2020 but was called off due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In February, the Federation Inspectorate ordered the removal of all 14 cross foundations. Stolac Municipality appealed the decision, and on 16 March the Federation Ministry for Spatial Planning annulled the Inspectorate's decision, stating that the first instance body had “wrongly established the factual situation.” Construction of the six new crosses resumed on 29 June 2020.

• Badanj Cave
• Bregava
• Daorson
• Radimlja

• Sulejman Šarac (1850–1927), Grand Mufti for Bosnia and Herzegovina (1910 to 1912)
• Mak Dizdar (1917–1971), poet
• Asaf Duraković (1940–2020), physician and poet
• Nijaz Duraković (1949–2012), university professor, founder of Social-Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian War Bosniak member of rotating presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Mustafa Golubić (1889/1891–1941), member of Young Bosnia
• Alija Isaković (1932–1997), writer, publicist and playwright
• Jazzar Pasha (1720/30s – 1804) converted to Islam and became the Ottoman governor of Sidon (1776–1804)
• Muhamed Mehmedbašić (1887–1943), member of Young Bosnia
• Ali Pasha Rizvanbegović (1783–1851), administrator of Stolac from 1813 to 1833
• Zdravko Šotra (born 1933), film director
• Nikola Katić (born 1996), Croatian football player
• Rade Hamović

• Daorson

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