An alphabet book for Serb elementary schools in 19th-century Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bu_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bu-2">[2]</a></sup> based on a corresponding textbook that was used in the Principality of Serbia.<sup id="cite_ref-kr_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kr-3">[3]</a></sup> It was the second Serbian alphabet book using the reformed Serbian Cyrillic, after Vuk Karadžić's <i>Први Српски Буквар</i> (<i>The First Serbian Alphabet Book</i>) published in Vienna in 1827.<sup id="cite_ref-bu_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bu-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-kr_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kr-3">[3]</a></sup> In Serbia, the earliest alphabet book using the reformed Cyrillic was published in 1869.<sup id="cite_ref-kr_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kr-3">[3]</a></sup><p>The first printing house in Bosnia and Herzegovina was founded in 1519 by Božidar Goraždanin, in the city of Goražde, in eastern Bosnia. It published the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gora%C5%BEde_Psalter" title="Category:Goražde Psalter">Goražde Psalter</a>, among other books. The establishment closed in 1523 and was later moved to Romania. Subsequently, a small number of books written in Bosnia and Herzegovina were sent outside the country to be printed, in Venice, Vienna, Rome, and elsewhere, but books were not produced in the country. In the second half of the 19th century, there was a revival of interest in printing and publishing in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first printing house started work in 1866, in Sarajevo, and was called Sopronova pečatnja (Sopron’s Publishing House), after its founder, Sopron Ignjat (1825–94), a journalist and printer-publisher from Novi Sad. This later became Vilajetska štamparija (Vilayet Printing House). Books were printed in the Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and Arabic scripts. Following the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary in 1878, Vilajetska štamparija continued to produce books, but it changed its name to Zemaljska štamparija (National Printing House). The National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina preserves a valuable collection of the first school books printed at Vilajetska štamparija. Shown here is one of the items from this collection, <em>Bukvar: za osnovne škole u vilajetu bosanskom</em> (Alphabet Book for Primary Schools in the Bosnian Vilayet), published in 1867.
<br>Alphabet books; Serbian language; Textbooks
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<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Papić, Mitar (1976) <cite>Трагом културног насљеђа</cite> [<cite>On the Trail of Cultural Heritage</cite>]<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://digital.nub.rs/pdf/tragom/tragom.pdf#page=72">[1]</a></sup>, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 72</span>
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<li id="cite_note-bu-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-bu_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bu_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Budiša, Dražen (1984) <cite>Počeci tiskarstva u evropskih naroda</cite> [<cite>Beginnings of Printing among European Peoples</cite>]<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=7jQLAQAAIAAJ">[2]</a></sup>, Zagreb: Kršćanska sadašnjost, page 176</span>
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<li id="cite_note-kr-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-kr_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-kr_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-kr_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Kreševljaković, Hamdija (1920), “Štamparije u Bosni za turskog vremena [Printing Houses in Bosnia in Turkish Times]”, in Đuro Körbler, editor, <cite>Građa za povijest književnosti hrvatske</cite><sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://dizbi.hazu.hr/?vdoc=1298&amp;page=28">[3]</a></sup>, volume 9, Zagreb: Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, page 23</span>
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Miloš Mandić</div>
1867<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1867-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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