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| | Charter of Kulan Ban (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | In 1189 Kulin Ban (1163-1204) issued the first written Bosnian document, a trade agreement between Bosnia and the republic of Dubrovnik, known as Povelja Kulin Ban, the “Charter of Kulin Ban.” In 1995 the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina issued a stamp which shows a small part of the Povelja, written in Cyrillic. |
 | | I, Kulin, ban of Bosnia, swear to be a true friend to you, o prince Kr'vash, and to all Dubrovnik citizens from now on and forever, and to keep true peace with you, and true faith, as long as I am alive. |
 | | I, Radoje the ban's clerk, wrote this document by the command of the ban, one thousand and one hundred and eighty and nine years from the birth of Christ, the month of August, the twenty-ninth day, [the day of] the beheading of John the Baptist. |
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