Baška tablet is one of the first monuments containing an inscription in the Croatian recension of the Church Slavonic language, dating from c. 1100 AD. On it Croatian ethnonym and king Demetrius Zvonimir are mentioned for the first time in native Croatian language. The inscription is written in the Glagolitic script. It was discovered in 1851 at Church of St. Lucy in Jurandvor near the village of Baška on the Croatian island of Krk.
Baška tablet
The Church of St. Lucy, Jurandvor.
Baška tablet replica with partially reconstructed cancellus in St. Lucy's church
Baška tablet at HAZU in 2008.
Demetrius Zvonimir was a King of Croatia and Dalmatia from 1075 or 1076 until his death in 1089. Zvonimir also served as Ban of Croatia (1064–1074), and was named Duke of Croatia in around 1075. His native name was Zvonimir, but adopted the forename Demetrius at his coronation.
11th century depiction of a king, suggested to be Peter Krešimir IV or Demetrius Zvonimir
The remains of Basilica of Saint Peter and Moses in Solin, today known as the Hollow Church. This is where Zvonimir's coronation took place.
The Baška tablet is the oldest Glagolitic monument in Croatia. It documents the donation of land gifted by king Zvonimir to the Benedictine Church of St. Lucy, Jurandvor, Krk.
Grant of Zvonimir to the monastery of the abbess of St. Benedict in Split for land Pustica in Lažani, 1076–1078.