Bosnian Chardaklia House: The Korkut Family House in Travnik

Travnik is a town (with about 15,344 inhabitants) located on the Lasva river in the central part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, about 90 km west of Sarajevo. In the area of today's Travnik the prehistoric Illyrian people and then the ancient Romans panned gold here. Preserved material traces and historiographical sources about Travnik have historical continuity. In the Bila and Lasva river valleys, the remains of settlements over 7,000 years old were found (Nebo, Han Bila and Crkvine, Turbe). The settlements belonged to the famous 'Butmir cultural group'. In the Bila valley, a slightly older Neolithic settlement of the 'Kakanj culture group' was discovered, which was destroyed by river erosion, and in Alihodza traces of an Eneolithic settlement of the 'Vucedol culture' were found. In written sources, the parish of Lasva is mentioned for the first time (1244) in the list of bishop's sermons, and then (1380) in the letter of the Bosnian king Stjepan Tvrtko I (1338-1391) to Hrvoj Vukcic Hrvatinic (1350-1416), in which he appoints him as grand duke and presents mu Bila, Trebeus and Lupnica in Lasva parish. At the end of the 14th century, the parish of Lasva was governed by the Bosnian nobleman Batalo (?-around 1400). There are several versions about the origin of the name Travnik. According to one of them, the city got its name from the spacious pastures and the word 'grass' ('trava'), while according to the other version, the name originated from the medieval pre-Ottoman fortress where the official charged a fee for the use of grass ('travarina'). The Korkut family house in Travnik is located in Donje Osoje Street in the old part of Travnik, on the right bank of the Lasva river. It was built in the middle of the 19th century. The house primarily belongs to an oriental-type city house. The house is treated in this paper (as a Bosnian Chardaklia House) because of the many characteristics of a Bosnian Chardaklia House that it possesses.