PROMETNA I TRGOVINSKA POVEZANOST SPLITA I BOSNE U PROŠLOSTI
TRAFFIC AND TRADE CONNECTIONS OF SPLIT AND BOSNIA IN THE PAST

Summary/Abstract: Administrative and urban centers on the Adriatic coast were connected with the continental interior since antiquity. The connection of the coastal area of Salona, and later of Split with the hinterland, continued in the Middle Ages. Due to limited production capacities, eastern Adriatic cities were focused on the import of raw materials, ie goods, livestock and livestock products from the mainland. After the disturbance because of Ottoman expansionism and conquests, trade and traffic were strengthened at the end of the 16th century by establishing the port of Split as the main transit port between the Venetian Republic and the Ottoman Empire. Aside climatic circumstances, communication via Livno and Kupreška visoravan was occasionally interrupted by epidemics and wars. Along that way,the goods were transported not only from the interior of Bosnia, but also from further parts within the Ottoman Empire. This vertical to the coast and the important backbone of traffic between Split as a Dalmatian center and the area of present-day south-east and central Bosnia and Herzegovina was exposed to political influences, state borders and was conditioned by foreign influences, experiencing the ups and downs of its significance.

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