Historic documents written in Visoki

The primary function of old town Visoki was defense, but it was also a place where a lot of medieval Bosnian rulers wrote various documents and charter

Charter

A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified...

s. The first mention of town itself was in a charter written by the young Ban Tvrtko named in castro nosto Visoka vocatum on September 1, 1335.

List of written documents

1335 – Tvrtko I Kotromanić writes charter in castro nostro Visoka vocatum.
1398 – Priboje Masnović, duke who was accepted as Ragusa citizen.
1402 – Bosnian king Stjepan Ostoja
Stjepan Ostoja
Stephen Ostoja was Bosnian King from 1398 to 1404 and from 1409 to 1418.-Family connections:He was a member of the House of Kotromanić, son of Tvrtko and grandson of Vladislav of Kotroman and his wife, Jelena Šubić from the Croatian noble Šubić family...

writes charter pod gradom Visoki (beneath town Visoki).
1404 – Bosnian king Ostoja writes charter pod Visokim (beneath Visoki).
1404 – Two papers were published which were subject of law dispute in Ragusa
Republic of Ragusa
The Republic of Ragusa or Republic of Dubrovnik was a maritime republic centered on the city of Dubrovnik in Dalmatia , that existed from 1358 to 1808...

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1420 – Big Bosnian duke Batić Mirković became very ill; he was buried in village of Kopošići.
1429 and 1436 – Duke Tvrtko Borovinić written papers na Visokom (on Visoki). These papers were last direct sources of old town of Visoki.

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