Drina ( sr-cyr, Дрина, ) was a medieval '' župa'' (parish), and later '' zemlja'', located in what is now Podrinje, the region in the Drina river valley, shared by (eastern) Bosnia and Herzegovina and (western) Serbia. Its location and spreading is unclear, although assumed to be located in middle and upper course of the river Drina, on its left bank in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Podrinje was part of the first Serbian principality, in the Early Middle Ages. John Kinnamos (1143–1185) noted that the river Drina separated Bosnia from Serbia, while one Papal document from 1187 erroneously identified Bosnia as part of Serbia. Early medieval Bosnian state included regions on the left bank of the Drina, where the župa was located. "Knez Ratimir bi bio prvi poznati knez na području Bosne kao samostalne oblasti." Bosnian noble family of

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ruled the region, along with other feudal possessions that extended from the middle and

Upper Drina The Drina ( sr-Cyrl, Дрина, ) is a long Balkans river, which forms a large portion of the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. It is the longest tributary of the Sava River and the longest karst river in the Dinaric Alps whic ...

river to the south-southeastern regions of the Bosnian realm in

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and Konavle at the

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coast. The family official residence and seat was at Borač and later

Pavlovac Pavlovac can refer to several places: ;In Bosnia and Herzegovina * Pavlovac, Banja Luka * Pavlovac, Pale *Pavlovac (fortress) The Pavlovac Castle ( sr-cyrl, Павловац) was a noble court and one of the largest and most important fortified ...

, above the Prača river canyon, between present-day Prača, Rogatica and

Goražde Goražde ( cyrl, Горажде, ) is a city and the administrative center of Bosnian-Podrinje Canton Goražde of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated on the banks of Drina river. As of 2 ...

(all in Bosnia and Herzegovina). Also, it was part of the dominion of the Kosača noble family, while another lesser Bosnian noble family had their possessions in the region, namely

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's. The Drina župa was mentioned in the '' Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja'' (, ca. 1300), as the site of a battle and the fief of Serbian nobleman

Tihomir Tihomir (Bulgarian, Macedonian and sr, Тихомир) is a South Slavic male given name which means "quiet" and "peace" (South Slavic: ''Tiho'' = quiet, ''mir'' = peace). In Russian however the word “mir” мир also means world. So in Rus ...

during Prince Časlav's reign (927–960). In 1359, ''veliki čelnik''

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( 1349–59) is mentioned as holding Gacko, Drina,

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, and Rudine.
Drina is further mentioned as an area with ''Soko'' () fortress in 1444, as a ''dominium'' (lordship, ''knežina'') in 1448, as a lordship with ''Soko'' fortress in 1454.

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