Six hundred years ago, a Bosnian king raised a lily. The golden lily of the Kotromanić kings became the mark of a kingdom and when that kingdom fell in 1463, the lily did not fall with it. The same spirit is carved into the stećci, the medieval tombstones scattered across our country: the kolo, the … Continue reading Six Centuries. Carved in Stone.
When Esmir Bajraktarević buried the decisive penalty against Italy in Zenica, he did more than send Bosnia and Herzegovina to its second World Cup. He set in motion a homecoming, and one of the first stops is a city that has carried the Bosnian flag in America for three decades: St. Louis. On June 6, … Continue reading The Dragons Return to St. Louis: Bosnia’s American Home Welcomes Back Its Team
Bosnian History 