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• Thursday, July 13, 2006: World Heritage Committee puts Medieval Monuments in Kosovo on Danger List

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  Borka Tomic    Group moderator

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  Thursday, July 13, 2006: World Heritage Committee puts Medieval Monuments in Kosovo on Danger List

  "The World Heritage Committee Thursday decided to extend the site inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2004 as Dečani Monastery (Serbia) and place it on the List of World Heritage in Danger. These inscriptions end additions and changes to the World Heritage List which now numbers 830 sites. The World Heritage Committee decided to extend the site of the Dečani Monastery by adding to it three groups of churches, the Patriarchate of Peć Monastery, Gračanica Monastery and the Church of the Virgin of Ljeviša. The site is now to be known as Medieval Monuments in Kosovo. The extended property, mainly dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, was also placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger due to difficulties in its management and conservation stemming from the region's political instability. The Committee requested that the State Party (Serbia) work with UNESCO programmes, with the United Nations Mission to Kosovo (UNMIK) and with the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government in Kosovo in caring for the site.
  
  The four edifices of the site reflect the high points of the Byzantine-Romanesque ecclesiastical culture that developed in the Balkans between the 13th and 17th centuries with its distinct style of wall painting. The Patriarchate of Peć Monastery is a group of four domed churches, on the outskirts of Peć featuring series of wall paintings. The 13th-century frescoes of the Church of Holy Apostles are painted in a unique, monumental style. Early 14th-century frescoes in the church of the Holy Virgin represent the appearance of the new so called Palaiologian Renaissance style, combining the influences of the eastern Orthodox Byzantine and the western Romanesque traditions. The style played a decisive role in subsequent Balkan art. "
  This post was modified on 13 Aug 2006 at 02:20 am.
  • 13 Aug 2006, 02:20 am
  Borka Tomic wrote: > "The World Heritage Committee Thursday decided to extend the site > inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2004 as Dečani Monastery > (Serbia) and place it on the List of World Heritage in Danger. These > inscriptions end additions and changes to the World Heritage List > which now numbers 830 sites. The World Heritage Committee decided to > extend the site of the Dečani Monastery by adding to it three groups > of churches, the Patriarchate of Peć Monastery, Gračanica Monastery > and the Church of the Virgin of Ljeviša. The site is now to be known > as Medieval Monuments in Kosovo. The extended property, mainly dating > from the 13th and 14th centuries, was also placed on the List of > World Heritage in Danger due to difficulties in its management and > conservation stemming from the region's political instability. The > Committee requested that the State Party (Serbia) work with UNESCO > programmes, with the United Nations Mission to Kosovo (UNMIK) and > with the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government in Kosovo in > caring for the site. > > The four edifices of the site reflect the high points of the > Byzantine-Romanesque ecclesiastical culture that developed in the > Balkans between the 13th and 17th centuries with its distinct style > of wall painting. The Patriarchate of Peć Monastery is a group of > four domed churches, on the outskirts of Peć featuring series of wall > paintings. The 13th-century frescoes of the Church of Holy Apostles > are painted in a unique, monumental style. Early 14th-century > frescoes in the church of the Holy Virgin represent the appearance of > the new so called Palaiologian Renaissance style, combining the > influences of the eastern Orthodox Byzantine and the western > Romanesque traditions. The style played a decisive role in subsequent > Balkan art. "
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  Borka Tomic    Group moderator

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  Re: Thursday, July 13, 2006: World Heritage Committee puts Medieval Monuments in Kosovo on Danger List

  While this is certainly a great achievement, it lacks something rather substantial in order for it to be considered as perfect. Everything would have been great if these monasteries had been enlisted like other Serbian monuments of UNESCO Heritage list:
  -Studenica Monastery, Serbia
  Village of Studenica, Commune of Kraljevo, Raška District, Republic of Serbia
  -Stari Ras and Sopoćani, Serbia
  Vicinity of Novi Pazar, Raška District, Republic of Serbia
  
  Instead of enlisting in the same way the Patriarchate of Peć Monastery, Gračanica Monastery and the Church of the Virgin of Ljeviša, there has been a totally new approach to the enlisting issue of these monuments as:
  -Medieval Monuments in Kosovo, Serbia, autonomous province of Kosovo.
  
  What is this if not pre-empting the Kosovo status? In the last 15 years there is a tendency for whatever is positive or appealing, or in this case sacred to Serbia, to be undermined and presented by use of terms other than "Serbia" or "Serbian" like "Yugoslav" or "Kosovo" in this case in line with preparation for Kosovo's independence.
  
  Simultaneously, whenever we want to call Serbian something that IS Serbian, we're considered nationalists. I personally feel frustrated and disappointed that the Serbian dellegation under the auspices of UNESCO, could not have prevent this. I'd like to learn more details on how this decision was passed, and what they did in order to prevent this.
  This post was modified on 13 Aug 2006 at 02:23 am.
  • 13 Aug 2006, 02:20 am
  Borka Tomic wrote: > While this is certainly a great achievement, it lacks something > rather substantial in order for it to be considered as perfect. > Everything would have been great if these monasteries had been > enlisted like other Serbian monuments of UNESCO Heritage list: > -Studenica Monastery, Serbia > Village of Studenica, Commune of Kraljevo, Raška District, Republic > of Serbia > -Stari Ras and Sopoćani, Serbia > Vicinity of Novi Pazar, Raška District, Republic of Serbia > > Instead of enlisting in the same way the Patriarchate of Peć > Monastery, Gračanica Monastery and the Church of the Virgin of > Ljeviša, there has been a totally new approach to the enlisting issue > of these monuments as: > -Medieval Monuments in Kosovo, Serbia, autonomous province of Kosovo. > > > What is this if not pre-empting the Kosovo status? In the last 15 > years there is a tendency for whatever is positive or appealing, or > in this case sacred to Serbia, to be undermined and presented by use > of terms other than "Serbia" or "Serbian" like "Yugoslav" or "Kosovo" > in this case in line with preparation for Kosovo's independence. > > Simultaneously, whenever we want to call Serbian something that IS > Serbian, we're considered nationalists. I personally feel frustrated > and disappointed that the Serbian dellegation under the auspices of > UNESCO, could not have prevent this. I'd like to learn more details > on how this decision was passed, and what they did in order to > prevent this.