History Kosinj

1 history

1.1 middle ages
1.2 renaissance
1.3 ottoman era

history
middle ages

many croatian archaeological sites, such bočaj, basaric, , lopar mlakvena, state there evidence of life in valley since roman era. many medieval , historical records city or bočaj kosinjgrad or lasch de kosin, princes reigned year of our lord mentions kosinjski first in year 1071 in charter of croatian king petar kresimir iv.

renaissance

one of oldest printers in south slavic, wrote in glagolitic breviary, first , oldest book known have been printed on croatian soil using gutenberg press. incomplete copy kept in library marciana in venice, , smaller fragment (six pergamentnih leaves) discovered in vatican library. short time after printing press invented, founded princes frankopans in village of kosinj, first croatian printing. printed, ecclesiastical purposes, , first croatian printed book in year 1483. kosinj, symbol of croatian culture, has place in gutenberg museum in mainz, first map of printers contains name of kosinj.

ottoman era

the kosinjski area remained after turks end of thirty vlach families. krajina authorities have expressed wish remain in homes. since end kosinjski remained rather poorly populated, krajina administration has moved here croatian settlers ogulin , upper pokuplje. description kosinje whom left bishop glavinić 1696th whatever., says place divided upper, middle , lower village. in upper kosinj glavinić found forty houses of croatian immigrants pokuplje. in middle kosinj, hundred houses vlach population, lived in lower kosinj croats moved here ogulin. in 3 kosinj village 400 croats , 300 blaise. border writings known surnames of immigrants late 17th century welcomed denison.

in later development kosinje central village changed name zamost. remained 2 kosinje, lower , upper. upper creek bakovac , compositions river lika, , lower few kilometers further north along creek mentioned.