Mokronoge is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the

Municipality of Tomislavgrad The Municipality of Tomislavgrad () is a municipality in Canton 10 of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its seat is in the town of Tomislavgrad. According to the 2013 census, it has a population of 31 ...

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of the

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, an entity of

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History

Roman period

Prior to the Roman conquest, the territory of the present-day Mokronoge was a part of the centre of the

Dalmatae The Dalmatae, alternatively Delmatae, during the Roman period, were a group of Illyrian tribes in Dalmatia, contemporary southern Croatia and western Bosnia and Herzegovina. The region of Dalmatia takes its name from the tribe. The Delmatae ap ...

, a group of Illyrian tribes. Mokronoge were part of the

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Delminium Delminium was an Illyrian city and the capital of Dalmatia which was located somewhere near today's Tomislavgrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina, under which name it also was the seat of a Latin bishopric (also known as ''Delminium''). Name The toponym ...

. Delminium became a municipium during the reign of Emperor

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in the first half of the 2nd century. The municipium was headed by the municipal council, whose members also came from the present-day Mokronoge. In the municipium of Delminium

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was the most worshiped deity, including the present-day village of Mokronoge, which is one of the sites in the area of this municipality where an altar to the god Jupiter was found.

Ottoman period

After the

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between the

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and the

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, the bishop of

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Marijan Lišnjić made a visit to the parish of Duvno, of which Mokronoge was a part of, and reported that although the parish of Duvno encompasses numerous villages, none of them has a church. The old churches were destroyed, while the Catholics weren't allowed to build the new ones. On the other hand, the Muslims had a mosque in the town of Županj Potok. The population in the region was small. The Catholics were a minority, but there weren't a lot of Muslims either. The parish priest for the Catholics in the region at the time was their local Ivan Ančić. In 1743, the apostolic vicar of Bosnia, Bishop

Pavao Dragičević Pavao Dragičević ( – 14 February 1773) was a Bosnian-Herzegovinian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the apostolic vicar of Bosnia from 1740 to his resignation in 1766. Biography Dragičević was born in Tješilo near Fojnica ...

ordered a census to be made, which found Mokronoge, at the time part of the parish of Duvno, uninhabited, as the town of Županj Potok itself with other nearby villages. His successor Bishop

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conducted a census in 1768, which saw a mild increase in population in the parish of Dunvo. The 19th century was as bad for the Catholics in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as the previous, marked by wars and rebellions. The situation for the Catholics of Duvno was the same. At the time, they had only one parish seated in

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. Mijo Čuić, the local parish priest, decided to move the seat to Seonica in 1806. However, as the parish was geographically too large, he divided it into two and established a chaplaincy in Mokronoge in 1829, which in 1839 became a parish in its own right. However, in 1861, the seat of the newly-established parish was moved to the town of Županj Potok. Franciscan

Petar Bakula Petar (, sr-Cyrl, Петар) is a South Slavic masculine given name, their variant of the Biblical name Petros cognate to Peter. Derivative forms include Pero, Pejo, Pera, Perica, Petrica, Periša. Feminine equivalent is Petra. People mon ...

wrote two schematisms, one for the

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in 1867, and the other for the

Apostolic Vicariate of Herzegovina Apostolic Vicariate of Herzegovina (; ) was an apostolic vicariate of the Catholic Church in the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Herzegovina Eyalet, Herzegovina that existed between 1846 and 1881, when it was abolished with the Roman Catholic Diocese of ...

in 1873. According to these two schematisms, in 1867, Mokronoge had 82 Catholics, and in 1873, their number rose to 110.

History

Roman period

Ottoman period

Modern history

Demographics

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