Notion of Multiple Borderlands and Ottoman Legacy on Triplex Confinium in Early Modern Period

Abstract

This contribution came into being with the aim to inform the participants of the conference dedicated to 65 th anniversary of the Oriental Institute, University of Sarajevo about the results of almost twenty years existing project Triplex Confinium at the Philosophy Faculty, University of Zagreb. Referring upon the tradition of the border studies, the project emerged as a hypothesis about the need to conceptually correct the grounds of those studies. For this project distinguished various problems of multiple borderlands studies. This was done in a broad prospective from civilizational, historico-anthropological, microhistorical, macrohistorical, sociohistorical, ecohistorical points of view as well as those of cultural history. By doing that, it became possible to problematize the entire Croatian history and particularly the early modern period as a history of multiple borderlands. In this respect the Ottomanist and Orientalist views are extremely important ones, including the need for deeper and more serious Zagreb-Sarajevo cooperation.