Tag:stećak=nišan_necropolis
 stećak = nišan_necropolis
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To specify an archaeological/heritage site as a necropolis - a large ancient cemetery with elaborate tomb monuments - during so-called  stećak to nišan transition period.
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A stećak is a monumental gravestone slab or megalith, cut exclusively in Dinaric Karst limestone in variety of sizes and shapes which, however, followed ordered pattern, erected as a monument (tombstone) on top of the grave and mostly grouped in cemeteries or necropolises, but sometimes as tombstones for individual graves. At present there are more than 60 thousand individual stećak tombstones in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and another several thousands in border areas of neighboring countries, mostly in necropolises comprised of few to few hundreds of individual stones. A stećak has been used as early as beginning of the 12th century to as late as mid to late 16th, in some cases early 17th century, for funerals or commemorative purposes.[1][2]
Stećaks will later evolve into transitional variety of "stećak-nišans", a variety of stećak used in late medieval Bosnia, during so-called stećak to nišan transition period, by the first converts to Islam after the Ottoman conquest of the Kingdom of Bosnia. Later still, these stećak-nišans will evolve into their final form as Muslim gravestones called nišan(s).[3]
How to map
The stećak=* key is used to tag features that still exist or of which traces are observable, and that are of historic interest, or where the feature class is generally of historical interest (e.g. individual stećak are tagged like this, while replicas should be tagged as man_made=monument with stećak=yes).
Draw as an area along the necropolis outline a node , use required tag historic=stećak and then stećak=nišan_necropolis. If consists of a significant individual stećaks-nišan draw those as an area inside necropolis area and/or set a node(s) and use stećak=nišan.(stećak=nišan for one tombstone or stećak=nišan_necropolis for necropolis)
historic=stećak+stećak=nišan_necropolis+stećak:nišan_count=*+inscription=*; in addition, editor can use combination with religious affiliation.
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