{"id":4922,"date":"2025-11-03T14:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/symbol-quorum.com\/?p=4922"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:20:38","slug":"in-the-beginningthere-was-thekingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/symbol-quorum.com\/en\/in-the-beginningthere-was-thekingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Beginning,There Was theKingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The exhibition marking the 1100th anniversary of the Croatian Kingdom<\/strong>, serving as the crown event of the jubilee year, is divided into thematic sections designed in line with the dominant historical, social, and cultural phenomena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From hall to hall, the emphasis is placed on the legal and symbolic continuity of the kingdom, which allows us to follow the idea of statehood through the centuries \u2014 from the birth of the Croatian state and native rulers in the early Middle Ages, to the election of foreign dynasties in subsequent periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Announcing the exhibition, art historian <strong>Dino Milinovi\u0107<\/strong> (head of the authorial team, which also includes historians <strong>Tomislav Galovi\u0107<\/strong> and <strong>Trpimir Vedri\u0161<\/strong>) wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe mythical status of the year 925, to which the exhibition refers, was confirmed by our ancestors a hundred years ago, when the thousandth anniversary of the kingdom was marked throughout the Croatian lands.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"660\" data-id=\"4915\" src=\"https:\/\/symbol-quorum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/viseslavova-krstionica-1024x660.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/symbol-quorum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/viseslavova-krstionica-1024x660.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/symbol-quorum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/viseslavova-krstionica-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/symbol-quorum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/viseslavova-krstionica-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/symbol-quorum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/viseslavova-krstionica.jpg 1393w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"712\" height=\"947\" data-id=\"4917\" src=\"https:\/\/symbol-quorum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/reljef-kralja.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/symbol-quorum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/reljef-kralja.jpg 712w, https:\/\/symbol-quorum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/reljef-kralja-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Not wanting to lag behind them, convinced that in an independent state \u2014 born of the sacrifice of all those who gave their lives for it \u2014 we have an additional reason, and an obligation, to once again recall the long tradition that draws strength deep from the piece of earth\u2019s crust allotted to us, we invite you to be together the <strong>Guardians of Memory<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Our wish is that all visitors to the exhibition once again relive this challenging, often arduous, but persistent journey through more than a thousand years of history.<br>At the beginning of that path, there was \u2014 the kingdom.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The curator of the exhibition is Iva Sudec Andreis, and the production is signed by Klovi\u0107evi dvori in co-organization with the Croatian State Archives in Zagreb, the Croatian History Museum in Zagreb, the Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments in Split, and the National and University Library in Zagreb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of 1100 years of the Croatian kingdom, in Klovi\u0107evi Dvori from October, 2025, to February 15, 2026, you can view an exhibition on Croatian historical integrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-4922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-published"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - 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