Dabar ( sr-cyr, Дабар) was a ''

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'' (county) part of the

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principality of

Zahumlje Zachlumia or Zachumlia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Zahumlje, Захумље, ), also Hum, was a medieval principality located in the modern-day regions of Herzegovina and southern Dalmatia (today parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia ...

(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

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''), and bordered Dubrava to the west,

Nevesinje Nevesinje ( sr-cyrl, Невесиње) is a town and municipality located in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, the town has a population of 5,162 inhabitants, while the municipality has 12,961 inhabitants. Geograp ...

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

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.
There was another region with the same name in the

Lim river The Lim (Serbian Cyrillic: Лим, ) is a river that flows through Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and is long.

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.

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* * * * Medieval Herzegovina Župas of the medieval Bosnian state {{BosniaHerzegovina-geo-stub