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Unesco World Heritage And Kosovo Towards A Tentative List For Kosovo, Caroline Jaeger Klein
Unesco World Heritage And Kosovo Towards A Tentative List For Kosovo, Caroline Jaeger Klein
UBT International Conference
In 2015, Kosovo tried to join UNESCO and failed by three quotes. Is Kosovo ready for its UNESCO membership? At least for its national architectural heritage, this question is to answer with no. The intensively discussed issue of the medieval monuments of Kosovo inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage by Serbia and Montenegro before the declaration of independency in 2008 and their further management through Kosovo is just one aspect. More troubling is that the rather young state not yet could establish sufficient structures to gain a systematic inventory of its monuments, sites and historic ensembles, nor to extract a tentative …
Christian Basilica, Serbian Orthodox Church Or Ottoman Mosque? Some Remarks On National Monuments Of Sacral Architecture, Caroline Jaeger-Klein
Christian Basilica, Serbian Orthodox Church Or Ottoman Mosque? Some Remarks On National Monuments Of Sacral Architecture, Caroline Jaeger-Klein
UBT International Conference
The territories of Kosovo do hold quite a number of historic sacral monuments that several national entities call “their” architectural heritage. Can we really speak of a single nations’ heritage in territories where, through the course of history, the politically leading or majority nation was shifted in place? To which nation does immoveable heritage belong, if the nation is no longer dwelling around the monument? Who takes care of such national heritage? Is heritage “national”? How can a national state administrate and manage architectural heritage that is not considered to be “his” national heritage? Questions like those are current status …