Mile

Mile was a medieval church site in the Visoko basin in central Bosnia. It first appears in written sources in 1244 as the Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian, and in 1340 the Bosnian ruler Stephen II Kotromanić built there the Franciscan friary of Saint Nicholas, the first of its order in Bosnia.

The estate was a meeting place of the Stanak, the assembly of Bosnian nobility, and served as the coronation and burial church of the kings of Bosnia.

Stephen II, who died in 1353, arranged to be buried there, and Tvrtko I was crowned king at Mile in 1377 when the Banate of Bosnia became a kingdom. When the Ottomans overran the Kingdom of Bosnia in 1463, the friary's role as the ceremonial heart of the Bosnian monarchy came to an end.