KULTURNO-HISTORIJSKI SPOMENICI NA PODRUČJU BAKIĆA KOD OLOVA
CULTURAL-HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE AREA OF BAKICI, OLOVO

Summary/Abstract: The geographical location of the village of Bakici, surrounded by clearings and forests, gives an image of a naturally enclosed place with numerous remains of monuments in which six sites with monuments from the Middle Ages (Pod Klisa or Varosiste, Klisa, Grebljica, Vlaskovac, Slavanj) and one ( Svatovsko Greblje) from the period of administration of the Ottoman Empire in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The population is predominantly engaged in agriculture and cattle breeding, occupations that, together with mining, in the previous centuries influenced the formation of the cultural landscape of this settlement. The continuity of living and working in these areas is obvious. In the central part is the medieval site of Pod Klisa or Varosiste with two ornate chest-shaped stecak tombstones. Northwest of Pod Klisa or Varosiste, there is Klisa with the remains of a medieval church dedicated to St. Roko and a necropolis with 24 stecak tombstones. Southwest of the Klisa site, between the high cabinets by the road leading from Donji Bakici to the village of Krivajevice, is the Vlaskovac site with an obelisk-shaped monument made of limestone monolith. Between Klisa and Vlaskovac, there is a smaller ridge overgrown with pine trees, which houses the Grebljice site and a necropolis with 14 stecak tombstones. In the central part of the settlement of Slavanj, there is a necropolis with 43 stecak tombstones. At the foot of the settlement of Slavanj, on the site of the Svatovsko Greblje or the high ground, there are ancient monuments in the shape of a nisan tombstone. At this place, every year in June (June 24), a Muslim prayer is performed, giving the name of the locality itself - the sanctuary (dovište).

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