Soli or Só was a '' zemlja'' of the medieval Bosnian state, located in today's northern

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, centered around the town of

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. Initially, a Slavic

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, the County of Soli became an integral part of Kulin's Bosnia and later both of

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and of the

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. ''Soli'' was also specially organized in the early feudal period. As such, it entered the title of Bosnian rulers, but somewhere in the first half of the 14th century it completely merged with ''Usora''. Apart from the name and only the approximate territory, we know nothing about the organization of this ''zemlja''. The meaning of the name is "salts". With the arrival of the

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around 1512, the names of the villages "Gornje Soli" and "Donje Soli" were translated to "Memlehai-bala" and "Memlehai-zir", literally meaning Upper and Lower Saltworks, resp. Zemlja Soli will eventually be incorporated into zemlja Usora in 15th century.

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