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Hum Land
The Humska ''Zemlja'', also Hum (), is a historical '' zemlja'' that arose in the Middle Ages as well-defined administrative unit of medieval Bosnia ruled by the Kosača dynasty. It included most of today's Herzegovina, in Bosansko Primorje including Konavle, territories on the south of Dalmatia between Omiš and Neretva Delta, in Boka Kotorska and south to Budva. The name for this ''zemlja'' derived from the earlier name for the region, Zahumlje. The seat of Kosače family was in the town and fortress of Blagaj and during the winter seasons, Novi. Name The name for the region changed over time and had different geographical and political meaning. As a politically separate entity, Humska zemlja is not synonymous with Zahumlje, nor Herzegovina. The ''Zahumlje was'' first mentioned in the 10th century. The name ''Humska zemlja'' can be traced back to the 12th century. It was mentioned in a charter by Stefan Nemanja to Split commune. At that time it already incorporated Zahumlj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Župa
A župa, or zhupa, is a historical type of administrative division in Southeast Europe and Central Europe, that originated in medieval South Slavic culture, commonly translated as "county" or "parish". It was mentioned for the first time in the eighth century and was initially used by the South and West Slavs, denoting various territorial units of which the leader was the župan. In modern Serbo-Croatian, the term also refers to an ecclesiastical parish, in Slovene likewise for ''župnija'', while the related ''županija'' is used in Croatia for lower administrative subdivisions, and likewise by Croats from Bosnia and Herzegovina (as a synonym for ''kanton''). Etymology The word ''župa'' or ' ( Slovak and Czech: ; Polish: ; Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian: ; adopted into and rendered in Greek as (, "land ruled by a župan")), is derived from Slavic. Its medieval Latin equivalent was . It is mostly translated into "county" or "district". According to Kmietowicz, it seems that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatia
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Italy to the west. Its capital and largest city, Zagreb, forms one of the country's Administrative divisions of Croatia, primary subdivisions, with Counties of Croatia, twenty counties. Other major urban centers include Split, Croatia, Split, Rijeka and Osijek. The country spans , and has a population of nearly 3.9 million. The Croats arrived in modern-day Croatia, then part of Illyria, Roman Illyria, in the late 6th century. By the 7th century, they had organized the territory into Duchy of Croatia, two duchies. Croatia was first internationally recognized as independent on 7 June 879 during the reign of Duke Branimir of Croatia, Branimir. Tomislav of Croatia, Tomis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medieval Bosnia
The history of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Middle Ages refers to the time period between the Roman era and the 15th-century Ottoman conquest. The Early Middle Ages in the Western Balkans saw the region reconquered from barbarians (Ostrogoths) by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (), followed by raids and migrations carried out by Slavic peoples in the 6th and 7th centuries. The first mention of a distinct Bosnian region comes from the 10th-century Byzantine text ''De Administrando Imperio''. By the late 9th and early 10th century, Latin priests had Christianized much of Bosnia, with some areas remaining unconverted. In the High Middle Ages, Bosnia experienced economic stability and peace under the Ban Kulin who ruled over Banate of Bosnia from 1180 to 1204 and strengthened its ties with the Republic of Ragusa and with Venice. The Kingdom of Bosnia emerged in the Late Middle Ages (1377). The kingdom faced internal and external conflicts, eventually falling under Ottoman r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and transitioned into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern period. The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages. Population decline, counterurbanisation, the collapse of centralised authority, invasions, and mass migrations of tribes, which had begun in late antiquity, continued into the Early Middle Ages. The large-scale movements of the Migration Period, including various Germanic peoples, formed new kingdoms in what remained of the Western Roman Empire. In the 7th century, North Africa and the Middle East—once part of the Byzantine Empire� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zemlja (feudal Bosnia)
''Zemlja'' (plural: ''zemlje'', anglicized: ''zemljas''; ; ), was a term used in the Balkans during much of the Middle Ages as a unit in political-territorial state division, based on feudal social hierarchy, local administrative control and the feudal distribution of land. It was the largest unit of administration, which constituted a feudal state among South Slavic peoples of the Balkans at the time, Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro (Zeta) and Serbia. The same term is known to be used among other Slavic nations of medieval Europe, namely Poles and Russians, who called it ''Zemlya'', ''Ziemlia'', or ''Ziemia'', and although it has a similar meaning and significance it is not the same. Background In the case of medieval Bosnian state, the basic schemes of the territorial-political organization of the feudal state in the areas to which it had expanded were: ''zemlja'' (land), ''župa'' (parish), ''seoska općina'' (village municipality), and ''vlastelinstvo'' (Manor house, manor). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medieval Bosnia
The history of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Middle Ages refers to the time period between the Roman era and the 15th-century Ottoman conquest. The Early Middle Ages in the Western Balkans saw the region reconquered from barbarians (Ostrogoths) by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (), followed by raids and migrations carried out by Slavic peoples in the 6th and 7th centuries. The first mention of a distinct Bosnian region comes from the 10th-century Byzantine text ''De Administrando Imperio''. By the late 9th and early 10th century, Latin priests had Christianized much of Bosnia, with some areas remaining unconverted. In the High Middle Ages, Bosnia experienced economic stability and peace under the Ban Kulin who ruled over Banate of Bosnia from 1180 to 1204 and strengthened its ties with the Republic of Ragusa and with Venice. The Kingdom of Bosnia emerged in the Late Middle Ages (1377). The kingdom faced internal and external conflicts, eventually falling under Ottoman r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosača Noble Family
The House of Kosača ( sr-Cyrl, Косача, Kosače / Косаче), somewhere Kosačić ( sr-Cyrl, Косачић, Kosačići / Косачићи), was a Bosnian medieval noble family which ruled over parts of modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia between the 14th century and the 15th century. The land they controlled was known as ''Humska zemlja'' (Hum, for short), roughly corresponding to modern region of Herzegovina, which itself was derived from the title "Herzog", which Stjepan Vukčić Kosača adopted in 1448., with latin title "Dux Sancti Sabbae". Besides Hum, they ruled parts of Dalmatia and Rascia (region), Rascia. They were vassals to several states, including the Kingdom of Bosnia and Ottoman Empire. Historians think the Kosača family is part of the Kőszegi family (House of Herceg), but there is a lack of evidence for this claim. The religious confession of the Kosača family is uncertain. They were in contact with the Eastern Orthodo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladislav Hercegović
Vladislav Hercegović ( sr-Cyrl, Владислав Херцеговић; 1426 or 1427 – 1489) was oldest son of Stjepan Vukčić. The Kosača noble family held lands in the region known as Humska zemlja, later named Herzegovina. Unlike his father, who quarreled with the Bosnian King Stjepan Tomaš for years, Knez Vladislav was loyal to the Bosnian throne. Citizenship of Ragusa He became citizen of the Republic of Ragusa by the charter dated 30 October 1435. It was customary for the republic to grant all the major Bosnian nobility a status of citizenry and republic's nobility, granting them a palace and a refuge in case of need in Dubrovnik. The City Council granted his father Stjepan and his brother Vlatko citizenship by the same charter. Political and military career During his father's reign Vladislav is known to have interfered with his affairs. During Second Konavle War and infighting, when in 1451, his father Stjepan Vukčić attacked the Republic of Ragusa i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlatko Hercegović
Vlatko Hercegović ( sr-Cyrl, Влатко Херцеговић; –1489), was the second and the last ''Duchy of Saint Sava, Herzog of Saint Sava'', succeeding his father Stjepan Vukčić in 1466. Succession After the fall of the Bosnian kingdom in 1463, ''herzog, herceg'' Stjepan Vukčić Kosača, Stjepan Vukčić, lord of its Humska zemlja, southernmost province, lived for another three years, enough to see the kingdom's complete dismantling. For this Stjepan blamed his eldest son Vladislav Hercegović. On 21 May 1466, the old and terminally ill duke dictated his last words, recorded in a testament, and bypassing Vladislav he condemned him by saying that it was him who ''"brought the great Turk to Bosnia to the death and destruction of us all"''. The next day, on 22 May 1466, the duke died. Stjepan Vukčić was succeeded as ''herceg'' by his second and younger son Vlatko Hercegović, who struggled to retain as much of the territory he could. Continued struggle However, Blag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stjepan Vukčić
Stjepan is a Croatian masculine given name, variant of Stephen. Historically it was found among ijekavian South Slavs, and it was also used as a honorific. In Croatia, the name Stjepan was among the top ten most common masculine given names in the decades up to 1969. Notable people with the name include: * Stjepan Držislav of Croatia (died c. 997), Croatian monarch * Stjepan II of Croatia (died c. 1090), Croatian monarch * Stjepan Svetoslavić (), Croatian nobleman * Stjepan Andrijašević (born 1967), Croatian footballer * Stjepan Andrašić (1941–2025), Croatian journalist * Stjepan Babić (1925–2021), Croatian linguist * Stjepan Babić (footballer) (born 1988), Croatian footballer * Stjepan Bobek (1923–2010), Croatian footballer * Stjepan Božić (born 1974), Croatian boxer * Stjepan Brodarić (c. 1480–1539), Croatian cleric * Stjepan Deverić (born 1961), Croatian footballer * Stjepan Damjanović (born 1946), Croatian linguist * Stjepan Đureković (1926– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandalj Hranić
Sandalj Hranić Kosača ( cyrl, Сандаљ Хранић Косача; 1370 – 15 March 1435) was a powerful Bosnian nobleman whose primary possessions consisted of Hum, land areas between Adriatic coast, the Neretva and the Drina rivers in Bosnia, and served the court as the ''Grand Duke of Bosnia'' sometime between 1392 and his death in 1435, although the first mention as a Grand Duke in sources comes from 16 June 1404. He was married three times, but had no children. After his death, he was succeeded by his nephew Stjepan Vukčić Kosača. His father was Hrana Vuković. Rise of Sandalj As the head of the House of Kosača, Sandalj Hranić succeeded his uncle Vlatko Vuković in 1392. In 1403, Radič Sanković led the attacks on Dubrovnik during the Bosnian-Ragusan War in the name of King Stephen Ostoja. Sandalj Hranić captured and blinded Radič, and held him in prison until his death in 1404. When King Ladislaus of Naples sold his rights to the kingdom of Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlatko Vuković
}; died between August 1392 and August 1393) was a 14th-century Bosnian nobleman who held the titles of the '' vojvoda humski'' (duke of Hum) and Grand Duke of Bosnia. He distinguished himself as one of the best military commanders of King Tvrtko I in battles against the Ottoman Empire. Biography Vlatko was probably a son of duke Vuk Kosača, often regarded as founder of the Kosača noble family. He governed Hum (part of modern-day Herzegovina), which was part of the Banate of Bosnia and later Kingdom of Bosnia. The Ottoman threat was building to the east, threatening Bosnia and its southeastern regions in Hum. On 27 August 1388, Grand Duke Vlatko defeated an Ottoman raiding party (probably up to 18,000 strong) in the Battle of Bileća. Bosnian heavy cavalry is typically credited with winning the battle as they broke the Ottoman ranks and pursued the retreating enemy. Celebrated Ottoman commander Lala Sahin Pasha (, 1330 – 1382) barely managed to save himself with the smal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
