Talk:Hasanaginica

South Slavic folk ballad

"...South Slavic folk ballad" "...at the time was a part of the Province of Bosnia." Is it that hard to say Croatian?

There is absolutely nothing "Croatian" in it. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 05:23, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Is there actually any good point, why we should consider this song to be "Croatian". It deals with a turkish-moslem family, it's earliest appearnes are "ijekawian", although Croats in that part speak exclusevly ikawian vernaculars. Finally, the tradition of epic songs and ballads is Serbian. There also epic songs by the Croats by they deal exclusevly with "Serbian metters", such as Marko Kraljevic, and are foung only in the parts of Balkans where Serbian immigration used to be very strong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Luzzifer (talk • contribs) 16:51, 11 December 2008

Actually its "earliest appearance" is Ikavian (see the link in Croatian Wikisource), which was subsequently "Ijekavianized" (and not particularly well). It's Ottoman Turkish topic in no way invalidates its linguistic affinity to Croatian language (else your fallacious reasoning would conclude that e.g. Ivan Gundulić's masterpiece Osman is also "not Croatian"). The ballad is generally held to have originated from prevalently Croat Imotska krajina.

The tradition of epic songs in no way exclusive Serbian, and the legend of Macedonian prince Marko Kraljević is one of the most popular topic in oral literature of many South Slavic nations. And this is not an epic song, if you can make notice of it. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 17:38, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

The ballad is generally held to have originated from prevalently Croat Imotska krajina.

That particular part of geography was Bosnia at the time, and all the way up to [19th century.]

So, if you are going to use geographical origins, it can only be "Bosnian ballad". "Bosnian ballad with oldest account of it written in Croatian dialect" - at best.
Hasanaginica is a part of Bosnian culture and cultural heritage. The language it's earliest record found today is in, is a bit irrelevant in that regard. It's oldest record could be written in Swahili - it is still Bosnian.
You know... kind of like Robin Hood being part of British culture, not French, despite the fact that his king at the time Richard the Lionheart, or Cœur de Lion ruled over great deal of today's France, or that he as a King of England is buried in Anjou, France.
Or that the earliest records of stories and ballads of Robin Hood are not written in today's English.
Now... being that we are having this talk in English... I would REALLY love to see what an Englishman or American or German would think of the differences between Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian versions of the song.
Is Hasanaginica even thought in Croatian schools today? I KNOW that it is thought in Bosnian schools.
That is Croatian as in "Republic of..." not "... people" or "... language". Same goes for Bosnia.

Oh... and "Osman" has an author. Folk songs don't.
Folk living there at the time were of various ethnicity but of Bosnian culture, under Ottoman rule.

Geography is one thing, language is another thing. It's Bosnian in historically politically-geographically-Bosnian sense, but in language and cultural tradition is strictly Croat, as it is Croat in modern geographical sense. Furthermore, if you account the exact period when this ballad was prob. composed, it would be in politically-geographical sense be better to call it "Ottoman Turkish" because Mediaveal Bosnian state was no more back then. And esp. considering the modern-day adjectival usage of the word "Bosnian" in a meaning "of or pertaining to the Bosnian language", to say that it's a "Bosnian ballad" would be deliberately misleading, as there was no such thing as "Bosnian language" back then (or some "Bosnian people" experiencing common national awareness and cultural development, thus Asanaginica being the pinnacle of some "Bosnian cultural genius".). So lets cut the terminological drawing-at-a-straw crap. Culturally it's completely Croatian.

FYI, Asanaginica is/was indeed taught in Croatian high schools (at least it was in my curriculum; those get change very often because of the $$$ business with the handbooks the publishers make with the Ministry, so I don't know what is its status today. Quick Google search shows lots of lektire sights providing summaries of it, so I can imagine it's still studied).

It's Croatian in either "people of...", "language of..." and "Republic of..". Folk songs do have authors, it's just that they've remained anonymous (hence the "folk"). --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 10:11, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

"if you account the exact period when this ballad was prob. composed, it would be in politically-geographical sense be better to call it "Ottoman Turkish" because Mediaveal Bosnian state was no more back then." So should we similarly label any Croatian literary output following the de facto end of the medieval Croatian state as Hungarian, Hapsburg, Austria-Hungarian, etc.? The medieval Bosnian state didn't exist, but a Bosnian province did, and that territory was firmly part of Bosnia for several centuries, whether as a politically separate state, an administrative unit, or a commonly defined geographical region. Do you actually believe that it'd be more accurate to describe a Slavic-language folk song of the local Bosnian Muslims as "Ottoman Turkish"? Really? You really believe that it would be more "deliberately misleading" to describe it as a Bosnian ballad? Also, yes, there was a "Bosnian language" back then, as much as there can be any sort of language prior to the national standardization of languages since the late 18th century, so your point is moot. Muhamed Hevaji Uskufi Bosnevi (that last party signifies his ethno-geographical identity as "Bosnian", in case you can't tell), wrote a rhyming Bosnian language dictionary a decade before the estimated origins of Hasanaginica. If you look at any number of historical sources from the Ottoman period, you'll see that "Bosnian" was a very common term the Bosnian Muslims used to describe their language - far more common than "Croatian." Your point about a "Bosnian people experiencing common cultural awareness and cultural development" is also ridiculous, since Bosnian Muslims in the 1640s were in fact a distinguishable people experiencing a "common cultural awareness" and "cultural development," just as much as Croats were. And ultimately, no it's not "completely [culturally] Croatian," and that statement is completely ahistorical. The most historically accurate way to describe Hasanaginica, taking into account its original composers, subject matter and cultural origins, would be as "a Bosnian Muslim folk ballad from present day Croatia that is today considered a part of both the Bosnian and Croatian literary heritage." Live Forever (talk) 18:52, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Hasanaginica vs. Asanaginica

Hasanaginica comes from possessive form of description of one's wife. In this case, the wife of Hasan-[aga].
H was not added, as mentioned earlier, but "swallowed" in pronunciation (as in Hvala - fala, Historija - istorija, Hajvan - 'ajvan, Halva - 'alva, Himna - 'imna, Hajvar - ajvar, Hodža - 'odža etc.), and lost in translation to Italian and later to German by Werthes (1775) and Goethe (1778).
[Hasan] is a common Arabic name.
[Asan] is a city in South Korea. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.146.142.34 (talk) 12:12, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

My nonformal sources say that in the region where this ballad comes from, /x/ is completely lost and is not pronounced neither as some "breathy voicing" nor as a glottal stop (read the poem, it's lost in several other places too in Fortis' "Morlach" original). Karadžić added the 'H' when he published the "translated" poem in his "Serbian songbook" (read the footnote). --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 10:22, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm willing to let this stand at the moment because redirecting can be a messy business, but I'm not convinced. Whatever the regional dialect, Hasan has been Hasan throughout Bosnian Muslim history. Furthermore, Hasanaginica is by far the more common name for the ballad in any language, and that's equally important on wikipedia. Live Forever (talk) 19:00, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

I have no problems on whether it's Asanaginica or Hasanaginica. The fact that the original versions had no initial /x/ makes the former much more proper, though in the case of moving to Hasanaginica the footone remark on the origin of this graphemic 'h' would have to be moved to the article itself.

Once again: it's irrelevant how Hasan's name is pronounced by the Muslims of Bosnia (there are dialects that retain and lose such 'h') - in the area where this song originated it is regularly unpronounced word-initially. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 20:58, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

This article is absurd

Where to begin. First and foremost, it's absurd to ascribe modern notions of nationality and (standardized national language) to a 17th century poem. Even if the language and dialect of Hasanaginica now partially belong to what we can consider as the Croatian literary heritage, this is a gross simplification and hardly an exclusive claim. After all, language is a fluid thing, and the early modern Balkans were a rainbow of Slavic dialects that were only later sorted out into distinct standardized "national" varieties - a process that creates problems to this day. Equally important, ascribing Hasanaginica (exclusively) to the Croatian national language carries wider implications of culture and national heritage that the ballad simply doesn't fit into. Imotski was not a part of Croatia at this time, it was part of the Ottoman province of Bosnia, and it had been as such for well over a century. In fact, if you go even further, Imotski was a part of the medieval Bosnian state since the mid 14th century. So, whichever way you look at it, Imotski was part of the Bosnian territorial entity for several hundred years. In terms of geography then, the most accurate historical description for Hasanaginica would be Bosnian - fact. Furthermore, in everything from authorship (Muslims from what was then south-western Bosnia) to subject matter (the lives of Muslim land owners in south-western Bosnia) to primary audience (Bosnia's Muslim community, in which it was disseminated years before anyone in Catholic Croatia knew about it), Hasanaginica is a blatantly Muslim poem (and yet, hilariously, this article doesn't even mention it). Any unbiased onlooker is left with a very obvious conclusion: the most historically accurate way to describe Hasanaginica would be, first and foremost, as a Bosnian Muslim folk ballad. Certainly, it'd be fair to mention that, since the 18/19th century, Hasanaginica is considered a part of the Croatian literary heritage for reasons of linguistics and contemporary geography (of course, it's also considered a part of the Bosnian literary heritage). But to simply denote it as "Croatian" without any mention of what's been listed above? That's just pure, nationalist bias. Live Forever (talk) 18:38, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Even if the language and dialect of Hasanaginica now partially belong to what we can consider as the Croatian literary heritage, this is a gross simplification and hardly an exclusive claim. - It is a simple matter of facts. Croats do have an exclusive right on the song, as it was created in area populated by Croats, and is such part of Croatian literary heritage. post-19th century concept of nation must be projected retroactively in order to incorporate scattered bits and pieces on the basis of culturally relevant criteria (language, ethnicity, religion etc.)

Imotski was not a part of Croatia at this time, it was part of the Ottoman province of Bosnia, - and how does this makes the Asanaginica "Bosniak" (Bosnian Muslim) ? Are you implying that every writing created in the territory of ex Ottoman empire is also Bosniak? C'mon...there are doszens of high-profile Croatian Franciscan writers operating on the territory of ex- Ottoman Bosnia (Divković, Franjo Jukić, Martić etc.) within the Franciscan province "Bosna Srebrna" (that itself was geographically not Bosna, but also encompassed Dalmatia and much further to the north and east), but modern-day Bosniaks do not perceive them as a part of Bosniak cultural heritage. Why? Because they deal with Christian, folk and Enlightment motifs that do not fit into Bosniak cultural matrix. Asanaginica OTOH thematically does fit, so they claim it, even thou there are abs. zero arguments onto which make such a claim. Slav Muslim elite at that time abhorred writing in Slavic (Persian, Arabic and Ottoman Turkish were much more prestigeus). Now the perception is different with standardised Bosniak language, so every pre-1990s Muslim-related literary motif is sought to be incorporated into Bosniak language literature.

Furthermore, in everything from authorship (Muslims from what was then south-western Bosnia) - Imotski krajina area was at that time, as it is know, predominantly ehtnically Croat, with no significant Muslim presence for more than a century.

to subject matter (the lives of Muslim land owners in south-western Bosnia) - So everything that has Muslim motifs is suddenly "Bosniak"? As I said above, should we therefore Ivan Gundulić's Osman integrate into Bosniak literary heritage? Don't be silly..

to primary audience (Bosnia's Muslim community, in which it was disseminated years before anyone in Catholic Croatia knew about it) - what exactly are you talking about? There are hundreds of folk songs originating in Christian (both Croat and Serb) area that deal with Muslim landlords and Muslim motifs. Ottomans were the rulers of of life and death, so it's normal that they in this or that way made it to the oral literature. Again: This song is in MSS versions recorded in Catholic (Croat) area, and there is no evidence as you suggest that it's "intended for Muislims".

Any unbiased onlooker is left with a very obvious conclusion: the most historically accurate way to describe Hasanaginica would be, first and foremost, as a Bosnian Muslim folk ballad. - Again, there is no evidence that this ballad originated from Bosnian Muslim oral literature sources. We don't care what innocent onlookers imagine, we present facts.

Look, I have no problem mentioning the fact that Asanaginica is today incorporated in the Bosniak language literature (which is a fact we cannot ignore per NPOV policy), it's just that the whole picture must be presented. The prominence this (really half-imbecile and not particularly literary worthy IMHO) poem gained into international sources makes it very prestigeous for modern-day literary historians, and a contentious issue to ascribe it doubtlessly to a particular literature. Perhaps ethnical affiliation should be removed completely from the lead and discussed in a separate section. And, there is this issue (not yet dealt with) of Karadžić copy/pasting Serbified version of this song into his "Serbian songbook", just like he did with many other pieces of Croat and Muslim oral literature the bastard was lucky to be the first to commit to writing.. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 21:28, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Travesty!

“ Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ” — Voltaire

What is this ? Is there a one sane person and any Bosniak here to say something on this travesty ?! No matter who, what or how is writing, as an attempt to improve such articles, negation of whole nation and its identity is obvious. Is there anything that belong to Bosniaks or they simpli don't exsist, as that is exactly basis for all deprivation of any rights to heritage, culture, language, identity in general. Just because bloodletting regimes, especially of prewar (World War II) and later of communist Yugoslavia, systematically deprived Bosniaks of civil and every other rights, some think that they can still behave and operate in line with nationalistic blueprints from Zagreb and Belgrade ! "Malo sutra", ("not a hope in hell"; "until hell freezes over") as often is said, and easily understood all over the Balkan, they will have to stop at some point, with continuous plundering and looting of Bosnia and Bosniak heritage and culture as accustom through out of 19th and 20th century. The days of the uskoks and hayducks is long gone, unfortunately only in sense of real highway robberies, while taking other peoples collective values, their cultural heritage is still present. It is quite common among mainstream Serbian and Croatian historian, historiographers, and intellectuals in many other fields too, as well as in popular science and culture, a comprehensive and persistent plagiarism, usurpation, presumptuous, of everything worth and even remotely possible to absorb as their. Of course Bosniaks are just Crotas deluded into Islam, so there is no need to say that Bosniaks are actually Muslim Croats. What that mean for Bosniak culture, language and heritage in general and homeland, well, make your own conclusion.

Its same or even worst story all over again at the Serbian side, just instead Croats and Croatian, all Bosniaks are Muslim Serbs and everything their worth enough is Serbian.

Identical is behaviour of wikipedians, especially at Serbian and Croatian Wikipedia (sr. and hr.), but English Wikipedia (en.) also fail to retain objectivity and accuracy in case of Balkan and Bosnia and Herzegovina in particular.--77.78.196.241 (talk) 17:56, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

What exactly are you talking about? --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 18:29, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Explanation

Why have I did this, from this version:
" It is considered a part of the Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian literary heritage. "
To this version:
It is considered a part of the Croatian literary heritage.
Colleague Ivan Štambuk nicely explained that here [1]
"Dear Serbo-Croatian comrades,... you...having been indoctrinated by books written by ex-professors of "Serbo-Croatian languages" who graduated "Yugoslavistics", which for pure political reasons pushed the notion of "Serbo-Croatian dialects" as an alleged "genetic node" in the South Slavic branch. This notion of abundantly exploited for misappropriation of Croat-only cultural heritage, of which there are plenty of remnants in modern Serbian books (...bugaršćice by Molise Croats and medieval Čakavian writers like Hektorović as a part of "Serbian epic poetry"...)...". Kubura (talk) 02:29, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

See the discussion above - it is considered part of Bosnian and Serbian literature. I was wrong and persuaded otherwise. That's what intelligent people do - change their mind when confronted with evidence. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 04:38, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Was it Asanaginica or Hasanaginica in original script? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.239.19.94 (talk) 18:24, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Morlach Ballad

The publisher, Fortis, clarly wrote: Morlach Ballad. Also, read the picture of the ballad and the Italian words: De Morlacchi

The nationalism of some readers made "Morlach" to be "Slave" simply changing the text...

Assimilation, persecution of Vlach or Morlach heritage

Today, we already know that the cultural heritage of national, ethnic and religious minorities (the case of Morlachs) as well as stateless communities in the 20 th century in Europe was doomed in many countries to assimilation, persecution and even oblivion.

Such minorities are often faced with the situation in which their heritage is rapidly vanishing, which is caused by underfunding and a lack of general care. The heritage of minorities, including the one of the Vlachs,is not infrequently passed over in silence in official national discourse. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.124.148.114 (talk) 15:23, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

"Morlach" was a misname by people not of this ethnicity. Please read the article Morlach. They were neither assimilated nor persecuted; they simply got their own identities. Staszek Lem (talk) 17:31, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Morlachs are Vlachs from Bosnia. They are persecuted by Wiki editors who mitigate their heritage! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:2F0E:52FF:FFFF:0:0:4F70:67A4 (talk) 10:11, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Please provide a reference from a reliable source which confirms that today there are people who call themselves Morlachs, so that Wikipedians can persecute them. Staszek Lem (talk) 17:52, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Morlachs are Vlachs from Bosnia. Hasanaginica was found by Fortis in XVIIIth century and he clarly stated: Morlach Ballad.(Addison's Rare Books & Bindery, 1774. Viaggio in Dalmazia. 1st Edition with 15 folding plates. Very Rare, OneRareBook.com, retrieved 26 September 2011) It is a Vlach heritage and even they are very few or disppeared You cannot wipe their heritage.

This is an obsolete confusing term from 18th century, misused by Fortis, not used today. Clearly it was not in a Romance language, so it cannot be a Vlach ballad. In wikipedia information must be based on modern sources. Staszek Lem (talk) 21:18, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

In Croatia today, "Vlachs" or "Morlachs" is a recognized national minority (along with 22 other ethnic groups), with 29 individuals declared as Vlachs in the 2011 Croatian census, making them the smallest recognized minority in Croatia. Other Eastern Romance-speaking ethnic groups, that were also traditionally referred to as Vlachs in Croatia, now identify by their respective ethnic names – namely Romanians, Aromanians and Istro-Romanians (which are native to modern Croatia's Istria County). Riadder (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:13, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

In a census some silly people declare themselves Klingon and Jedi. This does not make them "recognized minority". By the way, they did not declare themselves "Morlach" do they? Staszek Lem (talk) 19:54, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

About Fortis and Morlachs

The below details are about Fortis and about the people named Morlachs who were singing poems like Hasanaginica. The data contain references. Please do not erase references ! This is a warning (3RR)!

Alberto Fortis's account of the Morlachs, translated into French, English and German brought the Morlachs to the attention of Europe.(Larry Wolff, Rise and fall of Morlachismo. In: Norman M. Naimark, Holly Case, Stanford University Press, Yugoslavia and Its Historians: Understanding the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, ISBN-13: 978-0804745949 p.41) Fortis believed that the Morlachs preserved their old customs and clothes. Their ethnographic traits were traditional clothings, use of the gusle musical instrument accompanied with epic singing. Morlachs were living in in the same areas where lived the Krajina Serbs, who were expelled from Croatia in 1995.

Fortis also found that they did not necessarly call themselves Morlachs but rather Vlachs.(Larry Wolff, Rise and fall of Morlachismo. In: Norman M. Naimark, Holly Case, Stanford University Press, Yugoslavia and Its Historians: Understanding the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, ISBN-13: 978-0804745949 p.390) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Riadder (talk • contribs) 10:13, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Fortis was a confused person, not an expert in ethnograpy. How can it be a Romance-people ballas if it was in East Slavic language? Please use modern sources in wikipedia for correct description, as accepted by modern scientific community. Staszek Lem (talk) 19:56, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

From Fortis's travelogue it is not easy to understand who the Morlacchi are, although he does devote the beginning of this chapter to their origins and to the etymology of the term "Morlacchi." Fortis states that the Morlacchi inhabit "the pleasant valleys of Kotar, along the rivers Kerka, Cettina, Narenta, and the mountains of inland Dalmatia," (Fortis 1778: 45) which indicates that they are the population of the hinterland Dalmatia. However, in the footnote that refers to this sentence, he states: "The country inhabited by Morlacchi is of much greater extant, not only towards Greece, but towards Germany and Hungary; but I confine my account to the small part of it which I saw."29 (ibid.) From this statement we could assume that he applies the term Morlacchi to all Slavs, for he writes in the continuation of that sentence that the Morlacchi came to that area together with other nations "resembling them so much in customs and language, that they may be taken for one people, dispersed in the vast tracts from the coasts of our sea to the Frozen Ocean."30 Still, despite the fact that Fortis mentions that due to similarities all Slavs could be viewed as one nation, throughout the travelogue he keeps emphasizing the difference between the Morlacchi and coastal Dalmatians, who are not only both Slavs, but also live just a few dozens kilometres away from each other. [2]

Staszek Lem (talk) 20:12, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Dear user Stasek, in Wikipedia your personal opinion is called OR (Original research). Please read the Wikipedia rules before erasing data wrote by researchers or historians. 79.112.21.125 (talk) 17:49, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Please provide references from modern researchers who say that Hasanaganica is written by Vlachs. Staszek Lem (talk) 20:37, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Please stop your nationalistic edits. Transforming "Morlach" in "Slav" is very simple for biased editors. Vlach heritage in Croatia is often marginalized and is sometimes even stripped of its right to be called „heritage” and the minority this heritage belongs to is forced to live in conditions which are close to assimilation. Please respect minorities!

Riadder (talk) 13:01, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

REFERENCES about Vlach/Morlach autorship:

1. 2006, Julije Bajamonti, Il Morlacchismo d’Omero, Itinerari adriatici. Dai portolani ai reportages, Trieste, 13-14 June 2006, p.3

2. 2016. Balazs Trencsenyi et all. A history of Medern Political Thought in East Central Europe. Publisher: Oxford Scholarship Online, Vol.I, p.109, ISBN-13: 9780198737148

2. 2006, IVAN LOVRIĆ, THE CUSTOMS OF THE MORLACHS ( I Costumi dei Morlacchi) In: Discourses of Collective identity in Central and Southeast Europe p.60, CEU Press,Budapest, , p.60 Riadder (talk) 14:10, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

• Please provide citations what exactly these texts say which you think support your claims. For example, Trencsenyi p. 109 simply describes Fortis and does not give contemporary opinion on the poem. Moreover, the talk was about poems of "Slavic nations" and "Slavs", not Vlachs (Romance poeple). Staszek Lem (talk) 17:56, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Please read Ivan Lovric, a Croatian who clearly wrote about (p.60) the Morlachs. If you deny Lovric, Bajamonti and Trencsenyi we need to erase (according to your opinions) all data about Lovric and other scholars inserted in this article and other articles. But Fortis and Lovric were contemporary with Morlachs and their works are considered Primary sources. Read the definition of primary sources! Riadder (talk) 06:23, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Please stop confusing the terminology for the Slavic-speaking Orthodox immigrant community in Venetian Dalmatia with Romance-speaking peoples. Hasanaginica was written in Slavic, as it was transcribed from the source, thus, it is impossible that it was Romance.--Zoupan 19:15, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

MORLACHS are Vlachs and not Slavic People. Read references first Morlachs were speaking Serbian after Slavicization. Vlachs were converted to Islam în Bosnia and partially în Dalmatia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.122.248.160 (talk) 04:24, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Cultural appropriation of Morlachs heritage

Fortis wrote about a Morlach Ballad of the Slavicized and Islamized Vlachs (Morlachs) who were living a province of Otoman Empire. Giovani Lovrich wrote about maternal language of Morlachs, which is similar to the language of the Wallachians. It is obvious that many nationalists try to say that Hasanaginica is made by Croats. But Croats were not Islamized and never wrote a ballad about Hasan family. The phenomenon of falsifying the heritage of an ethnic group of population and the appropriation of others heritage is called Cultural Apropriation. It is a scientific term and not an accusation. It is free to use the ballad but is incorrect to say that was not created by Morlachs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.124.158.57 (talk • contribs)

Just go away. You have been reverted so many times, no sense to waste time talking with you anymore. Several persons are watching these articles. Lembit Staan (talk) 21:32, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

@Lembit Staan: Dude, really? Don't bite the newbies. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  19:20, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Dude, I am watching this page for years (as useer:Staszek Lem). This is one and the same obsessed guy. Lembit Staan (talk) 22:25, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Too many ultranationalists try to hijack the folklore of Musulman Morlachs of Bosnia. The last census shows there are around 20 Croatian citizens declared Vlach or Morlach. Is the Croatian folklore so poor that needs to hijack? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.112.49.11 (talk) 08:51, 17 June 2023 (UTC)