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Rudine (župa)
Rudine ( sr-Cyrl, Рудине) was a medieval ''župa'' (county), which was, according to author Gordana Tomović, located around Rogatica (now in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina). According to the same author, it is believed that Vojin held Gacko (1327), while his brother Hrvatin held Rudine, the latter having inflicted damages to the Republic of Ragusa in 1330. It is possible that Hrvatin held Gacko with Rudine, Drina and Dabar. Also, Vuk Kosača Vuk ( cyrl, Вук; 1317–1359), sometimes also called ''Hran'' in sources, was the 14th century magnate and a powerful nobleman, who was in service to the Serbian king Stefan Dušan (r. 1331–55). Vuk is considered to be a progenitor of Bosnian ... (1317–1359), who served Stefan Dušan and distinguished himself in the military, was awarded the spacious province of Rudine. References Sources * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rudine (zupa) Župas of the medieval Bosnian state Rogatica ...
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župa
A župa (or zhupa, županija) is a historical type of administrative division in Southeast Europe and Central Europe, that originated in medieval South Slavic culture, commonly translated as "parish", later synonymous "kotar", commonly translated as "county". It was mentioned for the first time in the 8th century. It was initially used by the South and West Slavs, denoting various territorial units of which the leader was the župan. In modern Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian, the term ''župa'' also means an ecclesiastical parish, while term ''županija'' is used in Bosnia and Croatia (in Bosnia also ''kanton'' as synonymous) for lower state organizational units. Etymology The word ''župa'' or ' ( Slovakian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian: жупа; adopted into hu, ispán and rendered in Greek as ''ζουπανία'' (, "land ruled by a župan")), is derived from Slavic. Its medieval Latin equivalent was '. It is mostly translated into "county" or "district". According t ...
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Rogatica
Rogatica ( sr-cyrl, Рогатица) is a town and municipality located in eastern Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 10,723 inhabitants, while the town of Rogatica has a population of 6,855 inhabitants. History In 1942, the Croatian fascist Ustaše regime slaughtered about 6,000 Serbs in Stari Brod near Rogatica and Miloševići. In 1990’s all of the majority Bosniak population was forces to flee due to Serb forces conducting an ethnic cleaning campaign with many Bosniaks raped and killed. Demographics Population Ethnic composition Economy The following table gives a preview of total number of registered people employed in legal entities per their core activity (as of 2018): Notable people *Kemal Mešić, athlete * Muhamed Mustafić, handball player * Ibrahim Šehić, football goalkeeper * Mersad Selimbegović, football player * Nezir Škaljić, third mayor of Sarajevo (1899–1905) * Safet Zec, painter Gal ...
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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 ...
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Gacko
Gacko ( sr-cyrl, Гацко) is a town and municipality located in Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in the region of East Herzegovina. As of 2013, the town has a population of 5,784 inhabitants, while the municipality has 8,990 inhabitants. Geography The municipality covers an area of , making it one of the larger municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The town is near the state border with Montenegro. History Middle Ages In the 14th century the region was governed by the powerful Vojinović family. In 1359, ''veliki čelnik'' Dimitrije held the region. Ottoman period The rebels were defeated at the field of Gacko. It ultimately failed due to lack of foreign support. Modern history Austro-Hungarian authorities took it over in 1878, a decision which was made at the Berlin Congress. In 1908, Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina sparking the Bosnian crisis which eventually led to World War I. After that war, Gacko j ...
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Republic Of Ragusa
hr, Sloboda se ne prodaje za sve zlato svijeta it, La libertà non si vende nemmeno per tutto l'oro del mondo"Liberty is not sold for all the gold in the world" , population_estimate = 90 000 in the XVI Century , currency = Ragusa perpera and others , common_languages = , title_leader = Rector as Head of state , leader1 = Nikša Sorgo , year_leader1 = 1358 , leader2 = Sabo Giorgi , year_leader2 = 1807-1808 , today = Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro , footnotes = A Romance language similar to both Italian and Romanian. While present in the region even before the establishment of the Republic, Croatian, also referred to as ''Slavic'' or ''Illyrian'' at the time, had not become widely spoken until late 15th century. The Republic of Ragusa ( dlm, Republica de Ragusa; la, Respublica Ragusina; it, Repubblica di Ragusa; hr, Dubrovačka Republika ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Vuk Kosača
Vuk ( cyrl, Вук; 1317–1359), sometimes also called ''Hran'' in sources, was the 14th century magnate and a powerful nobleman, who was in service to the Serbian king Stefan Dušan (r. 1331–55). Vuk is considered to be a progenitor of Bosnian noble family, the Kosačas, one of the most prominent during the 14th and 15th century Bosnia. He held a possessions in eastern Bosnia, in Podrinje. He was a long-term rival of the Rastislalićs, a nobility from the northeast Serbia. Life and career Ragusan chronicler Mavro Orbini (1563–1614), write that Vuk was born in 1317, as son of an unnamed '' knyaz'' from Rudine, in eastern Bosnia, in Podrinje on the left bank of the Upper Drina river, where his father held a possessions. Vuk is considered to be a progenitor of a Bosnian noble family, the Kosačas, which will become one of three most influential in the Banate and Kingdom of Bosnia during the 14th and 15th century. Vuk distinguished himself in the military service to the Ser ...
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Serbian Royal Academy
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the most prominent academic institution in Serbia, founded in 1841 as Society of Serbian Letters ( sr, link=no, Друштво србске словесности, ДСС, Društvo srbske slovesnosti, DSS). The Academy's membership has included Nobel laureates Ivo Andrić, Leopold Ružička, Vladimir Prelog, Glenn T. Seaborg, Mikhail Sholokhov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Peter Handke as well as, Josif Pančić, Jovan Cvijić, Branislav Petronijević, Vlaho Bukovac, Mihajlo Pupin, Nikola Tesla, Milutin Milanković, Mihailo Petrović-Alas, Mehmed Meša Selimović, Danilo Kiš, Dmitri Mendeleev, Victor Hugo, Leo Tolstoy, Jacob Grimm, Antonín Dvořák, Henry Moore and many other scientists, scholars and artists of Serbian and foreign origin ...
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