Historiografija u službi državotvornih ciljeva: inicijalni okvir »srpskih zemalja«

Saša Mrduljaš - Pregledni rad

Historiography in the service of state-building goals: the initial framework of the »Serbian lands«

Sažetak
Povijesni razvoj uzrokovao je izrazitu prostornu isprepletenost Hrvata, Bošnjaka, Crnogoraca, Srba. Ta prožetost ne bi mogla stoljećima opstojati da unutar svih tih naroda nije postojala sposobnost koegzistencije. Tijekom nacionalno-formativnih procesa oblikovani su politički, u osnovi državotvorni ciljevi sve četiri, sada već nacionalne zajednice. S obzirom na međuetničku ispremiješanost i ti su se ciljevi uvelike međusobno preklapali. U tim uvjetima unutar svake od spomenute četiri nacije društveno-humanističke znanosti djelovale su ne samo u korist nacionalne afirmacije već su svoju produkciju znatno prilagodile državotvornim težnjama vlastitih naroda sa svrhom njihova opravdanja i mobilizacijom društva prema ostvarenju željenih projekcija. Na tom polju poseban su doprinos dali srpski historičari. Pored ostalog, raskošnim definiranjem inicijalnog okvira »srpskih zemalja«, takvog kakav bi bio utvrđen još po pretpostavljanom doseljavanju Srba u 7. stoljeću. Gledano sa suvremenog aspekta, približno tri četvrtine prostora tih inicijalnih »srpskih zemalja« danas su dijelom Albanije, Bosne i Hercegovine, Crne Gore i Hrvatske. U priloženom radu razmotrit će se etnički razvoj na tlu navodnih »srpskih zemalja« i analizirati zbog čega je iz srpske perspektive bitno njihovo prvotno lociranje upravo u smjeru zapada i Jadranskoga mora.

Abstract
Historical development has led to a significant spatial intertwining of Croats, Bosniaks, Montenegrins, and Serbs. This intertwining could not have existed for centuries if all these ethnic groups had not had the ability to coexist. During the national-formative processes, the political, essentially state-building goals of all four, now national communities, were shaped. Given the interethnic mixing, these goals also largely overlapped. In these conditions, within each of the four mentioned nations, the social and human sciences acted not only in favor of national affirmation but also significantly adjusted their production to the state-building aspirations of their own peoples. With the purpose of justifying national goals and mobilizing own society to achieve the desired projections. Serbian historians have made a special contribution in this field. Among other things, by defining the initial framework of the »Serbian lands« which allegedly were established after the assumed arrival of the Serbs in the 7th century. Seen from a modern perspective, approximately three-quarters of the area of those initial »Serbian lands« are today part of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania. In the attached paper, we will consider the ethnic development on the soil of the alleged »Serbian lands« and analyze why insisting of their original location in the direction of the west and the Adriatic Sea is important from the Serbian perspective.