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Drina ( sr-cyr, Дрина, ) was a medieval '' župa'' (parish), and later '' 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 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. 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
Drina is further mentioned as an area with ''Soko'' () fortress in 1444, as a ''dominium'' (lordship, ''knežina'') in 1448, as a lordship with ''Soko'' fortress in 1454.
Drina ( sr-cyr, Дрина, ) was a medieval '' župa'' (parish), and later '' 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 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. 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
Pavlović (Serbo-Croatian) or Pavlovič (in Slovenian and Slovak) is a surname of South Slavic origin stemming from the male given name Pavao, Pavle or Pavel, which are all Slavic variants of Paul. It was formed using the patronymic suffix -ov ...
ruled the region, along with other feudal possessions that extended from the middle and Upper Drina
The Drina ( sr-Cyrl, Дрина, ) is a long Balkans river, which forms a large portion of the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. It is the longest tributary of the Sava River and the longest karst river in the Dinaric Alps whic ...
river to the south-southeastern regions of the Bosnian realm in Hum
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and Konavle at the Adriatic
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coast.
The family official residence and seat was at Borač and later Pavlovac Pavlovac can refer to several places:
;In Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Pavlovac, Banja Luka
* Pavlovac, Pale
*Pavlovac (fortress)
The Pavlovac Castle ( sr-cyrl, Павловац) was a noble court and one of the largest and most important fortified ...
, above the Prača river canyon, between present-day Prača, Rogatica and Goražde
Goražde ( cyrl, Горажде, ) is a city and the administrative center of Bosnian-Podrinje Canton Goražde of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated on the banks of Drina river. As of 2 ...
(all in Bosnia and Herzegovina). Also, it was part of the dominion of the Kosača noble family, while another lesser Bosnian noble family had their possessions in the region, namely Dinjčić noble family
Dinjčić ( sr-Cyrl, Дињчић), sometime Dinjičić ( sr-Cyrl, Дињичић), later branch known as Kovačević, were Bosnian medieval noble family which flourished during kingdom period, and ruled the Jadar-Drinjača areal and wider Sreb ...
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The Drina župa was mentioned in the '' Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja'' (, ca. 1300), as the site of a battle and the fief of Serbian nobleman Tihomir Tihomir (Bulgarian, Macedonian and sr, Тихомир) is a South Slavic male given name which means "quiet" and "peace" (South Slavic: ''Tiho'' = quiet, ''mir'' = peace). In Russian however the word “mir” мир also means world. So in Rus ...
during Prince Časlav's reign (927–960). In 1359, ''veliki čelnik'' Dimitrije Dimitrije (Serbian Cyrillic: Димитрије) is a masculine given name. Dimitrije is a Serbian variant of a Greek name Demetrius. It may refer to:
* Dimitrije Ljubavić (1519–1564), Serbian Orthodox deacon, humanist, writer and printer
* Patr ...
( 1349–59) is mentioned as holding Gacko, Drina, Dabar
The word ''dabar'' ( he, דָּבָר) means "word", "talk" or "thing" in Hebrew. ''Dabar'' occurs in various contexts in the Hebrew Bible.
The Septuagint, the oldest translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, uses the terms ''rhema'' and ''l ...
, and Rudine.Drina is further mentioned as an area with ''Soko'' () fortress in 1444, as a ''dominium'' (lordship, ''knežina'') in 1448, as a lordship with ''Soko'' fortress in 1454.
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