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Regions Of Bosnia And Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina, like many countries is made of geographical and historical and political regions. The current geopolitical regions were finalised with the signing of the Dayton Agreement. Geographical regions ;Bosnia (''Bosna'') *Bosanska Krajina / Western Bosnia *Bosanska Posavina (Bosnian Sava river basin) *Semberija *Podrinje / Eastern Bosnia (Bosnian Drina river basin) * Srednja Bosna / Central Bosnia *Tropolje ;Herzegovina (''Hercegovina'') *West Herzegovina *East Herzegovina Historical regions *Bosnia ** Birač ** ** Vrhbosna ** Osat * Bosanska Krajina ** ** Knešpolje ** Lijevče * Donji Kraji * Tropolje * Herzegovina * Travunija Medieval counties * Dabar * Drina * Popovo * Soli * Usora * Vrhbosna * Vrm * , (Parish) Urban regions *Sarajevo **Goražde **Visoko *Banjaluka **Prijedor **Bihać *Mostar **Trebinje **Livno *Tuzla **Brčko **Bijeljina *Zenica **Doboj **Travnik Political regions *Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) *Republika Srpska (RS) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosnia And Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and Herzegovina borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to the north and southwest. In the south it has a narrow coast on the Adriatic Sea within the Mediterranean, which is about long and surrounds the town of Neum. Bosnia, which is the inland region of the country, has a moderate continental climate with hot summers and cold, snowy winters. In the central and eastern regions of the country, the geography is mountainous, in the northwest it is moderately hilly, and in the northeast it is predominantly flat. Herzegovina, which is the smaller, southern region of the country, has a Mediterranean climate and is mostly mountainous. Sarajevo is the capital and the largest city of the country followed by Banja Luka, Tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medieval Bosnian State Expansion-en
In the history of Europe The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500 to AD 1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early ..., the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the Post-classical, post-classical period of World history (field), 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 history, modern period. The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early Middle Ages, Early, High Middle Ages, High, and Late Middle Ages. Population decline, counterurbanisation, the collapse of centralized authority, invasions, and mass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vrm (župa)
VRM or vrm may refer to: Science and technology * Virtual Resource Manager, a microkernel for the IBM RT PC workstations * Viscous remanent magnetization, a kind of magnetization of ferromagnets * Voltage regulator module, a buck converter (electronics) * Variable Range Marker, a feature of radar screens Other uses * Vrm (župa), a historical region of Trebinje, Bosnia * Vendor relationship management Vendor relationship management (VRM) is a category of business activity made possible by software tools that aim to provide customers with both independence from vendors and better means for engaging with vendors. These same tools can also apply to ..., a category of business activity * Vehicle registration mark, the number on a vehicle registration plate {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Usora (region)
Usora ( la, Vozora, hu, Ózora) was important '' zemlja'' (; feudalna oblast ) of the medieval Bosnian state, first banate and later kingdom, although it also had some periods outside its jurisdiction and royal authority, when it was connected with neighboring banates of Slavonia, or Mačva at times. The administrative seat of this ''zemlja'' was Srebrenik, which also served as residence for its rulers for entire period of existence of the medieval Bosnian state. It took its name from the river Usora. Ethimology The name of the land of Usora derives from the eponymous river, which runs through its territories for approximately 80 kilometers, in direction south-southwest to north-northeast, and spills into the river Bosna just south of town of Doboj. Geography and location Usora was the northernmost Bosnian land (''zemlja''), occupying very fertile Pannonian Plain, and its geographical location roughly correspond to modern-day Northern Bosnia gravitating toward Posavina. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soli (region)
Soli or Só was a '' zemlja'' of the medieval Bosnian state, located in today's northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, centered around the town of Tuzla. Initially, a Slavic župa, the County of Soli became an integral part of Kulin's Bosnia and later both of Banate of Bosnia and of the Kingdom of Bosnia. The meaning of the name is "salts". With the arrival of the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ... 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. See also * Usora (''zemlja'') References Literature * * * * * {{coord, 44, 33, 37, N, 18, 41, 50, E, display=t Historical counties of Bosnia and Herzegovina Zemljas o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popovo (župa)
In the Middle Ages, most of the territory of the Popovo field by the Trebišnjica was part of the ''župa'' of Popovo (), and was part of the Hum province and form at least 1322 Banate of Bosnia and later Bosnian Kingdom. It encompassed most of the tribal territories of Vlasi Bobani, Vlasi Žurovci, Vlasi Hrabreni and Vlasi Burmazi. On the north it encompassed parts of the Ljubinje area, where it bordered župas Dabar, Ljubinje, Ljubomir and Dubrava. On the south it bordered with Bosansko Primorje county, and Trebinje area with eponymous župa to the east, and Zažabalje to the west. The Bosansko Primorje county was later acquired by the Republic of Ragusa from Bosnian monarch, namely kings Tvrtko II and Ostoja, through sequence of purchase arrangements and contracts. In the area of the Popovo župa, the most notable nobility were the Nikolići, and their subjects Brlići, Ivanovići and Krasomirići. The location of the main fortress, Popovski, has not yet been dete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drina (župa)
Drina ( sr-cyr, Дрина, ) was a medieval ''župa'' (parish), and later ''Zemlja (feudal Balkans), 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 Principality of Serbia (early medieval), 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. Bosnia (early medieval polity), 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 Pavlović noble family, Pavlović ruled the region, alo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dabar (župa)
Dabar ( sr-cyr, Дабар) was a ''župa'' (county) part of the medieval principality of Zahumlje (later "Hum"). It was first mentioned in the 10th century, in the '' De Administrando Imperio'', as one of five inhabited cities of Zahumlje. It was called ''Dobriskik''. Dabar was situated around the Dabar field (''Dabarsko polje''), and bordered Dubrava to the west, Nevesinje to the north, Fatnica to the east and Popovo to the south-west. The word ''dabar'' means "beaver", thus, the etymology has been connected to beavers. There was another region with the same name in the Lim river valley that had been a part of the Serbian kingdom until 1373 when Bosnian Ban Tvrtko I Stephen Tvrtko I ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Stjepan/Stefan Tvrtko, Стјепан/Стефан Твртко; 1338 – 10 March 1391) was the first king of Bosnia. A member of the House of Kotromanić, he succeeded his uncle Stephen II ... adjoined it to his realm. References Sources * * * * Medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travunija
Travunia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Travunija, Травунија; el, Τερβουνία, Tervounía; grc, Τερβουνία, Terbounía; la, Tribunia) was a South Slavic medieval principality that was part of Medieval Serbia (850–1371), and later the Medieval Bosnia (1373–1482). The principality became hereditary in a number of noble houses, often kin to the ruling dynasty. The region came under Ottoman rule in 1482. Its seat was in the city of Trebinje. In the 9th and 10th centuries, the ''Župa'' of Travunia was held by the Belojević noble family, who were entitled the rule during the reign of Prince Vlastimir (r. 830–850), of the Vlastimirović dynasty. After the death of Časlav, the last dynastic member, the principality disintegrated, and the provinces were annexed by the Bulgars and Byzantines. In 1034, Stefan Vojislav (the founder of the Vojislavljević dynasty) incited a rebellion and renounced Byzantine rule, becoming the ''Prince of Serbs'', ruli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donji Kraji
Donji Kraji or Donji Krajevi (''Lower Regions'' or ''Lower Ends'', la, Partes inferiores, italic=yes, ), was a small medieval ''zemlja'' (county, župa) in today's northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina, mostly expanding within the territory of today's Bosanska Krajina. Name and geography At first, Donji Kraji referred to a region around Ključ on the Sana. Marko Vego derives the name of Donji Kraji from the name of Roman province Lower Pannonia, or later Lower Slavonia, while Pavao Anđelić deduces that the name Donji Kraji (Lower Ends) "also has a certain relation to the rest of (highland) Bosnia", where the terms "Lower" and "End" refers to a border area that is below from the geographical point of view, and in terms of altitude and terrain configuration, in relation to the rest of Bosnia. Jelena Mrgić reject existence of "Donji Kraji Slavonije" altogether, and reject previous etymological discussions among historians, such as Klajić, Jiriček and even Vego, and derives the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lijevče
Lijevče, also the Lijevče field ( sh, Lijevče polje, sr-cyr, Лијевче поље), is a small geographical region in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina; a plain situated between the rivers Sava and Vrbas, and Mount Kozara. It includes settlements part of Gradiška, Srbac and Laktaši, in the Banja Luka region of the Republika Srpska entity. It is part of the wider Bosanska Krajina ("Bosnian Frontier") historical region. Geography The macro-mountain of the Vrbas river at the mouth of the Sava is called ''Lijevče polje'', and the name refers to the plain which extends from the left bank of Vrbas, downstream from Klašnica, in a length of around 34 kilometres.Mrgić 2007, p. 1: "Макроплавина реке Врбас при њеном ушћу у Саву назива се Лијевче поље, и то име се односи на равницу која се простире са леве обале Врбаса, низводно од Клашница, у дуж ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knešpolje
Knešpolje ( sr-cyr, Кнешпоље) or Knežopolje (Кнежопоље) is a region in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the northwestern part of the Potkozarje geographical region, and includes a region stretching from Prijedor, Kozara mountains, Bosanska Dubica, the Una river and Bosanska Kostajnica. Its name is derived from ''knez'' (count, duke) and ''polje'' (field). Geography The region lies in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the wider Bosanska Krajina region. It is the northwestern part of the Potkozarje geographical region, and includes a region stretching from Prijedor, Kozara mountains, Bosanska Dubica, the Una river and Bosanska Kostajnica. History The region is known for its rebellions against Ottoman rule. In 1858, an uprising broke out in the region, known as Pecija's First Revolt. The region is known as a place where Serbs were persecuted by the Ustashe in World War II; Bosnian Muslim poet Skender Kulenović wrote about the Kozara tragedy. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
