Krajina Belojević ( sr, Крајина, gr, Κράινα) was the Serbian ''
župan
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'' of
Travunia
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, an administrative unit of the
Principality of Serbia
The Principality of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl, Књажество Србија, Knjažestvo Srbija) was an autonomous state in the Balkans that came into existence as a result of the Serbian Revolution, which lasted between 1804 and 1817. Its creation wa ...
, in the 9th century. In 847/848, not long after the three-year
Bulgarian–Serbian War (839–842) in which
Prince Vlastimir of Serbia (r.
ca. 836-850) defeated the Bulgar army sent by
Presian I,
Krajina married the daughter of Prince Vlastimir and gained a raising in rank, and was entitled the ''županate'' centered on
Trebinje
Trebinje ( sr-Cyrl, Требиње, ) is a city and municipality located in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the southernmost city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and is situated on the banks of Trebišnjica river in the r ...
(a province in the "maritime", ''
Pomorje
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'', part of modern
Herzegovina), which had earlier been held by Krajina's father, the local lord
Beloje.
[Ferjančić, p. 62] His father-in-law was the eponymous founder of the
Vlastimirović dynasty
The Vlastimirović ( sr-Cyrl, Властимировић, Vlastimirovići / Властимировићи) was the first Serbian royal dynasty, named after Prince Vlastimir (ruled c. 831–851), who was recognized by the Byzantine Empire. The ...
, which would rule Serbia until 969. Krajina continued the office under
Mutimir
Mutimir ( sr, Мутимир, el, Μουντιμῆρος) was prince of Serbia from ca. 850 until 891. He defeated the Bulgar army, allied himself with the Byzantine emperor and ruled the first Serbian Principality when the Christianization of ...
(r. 850–891). With the unnamed daughter of Vlastimir, Krajina had a son that would succeed him,
Hvalimir ( gr, Φαλιμἑρης
["Sebraneʹ spisy"]
p. 759
/ref>). Hvalimir in turn had a son, Čučimir ( gr, Τζουτζημέρης;[ r. first half of 10th century][Grumel, p. 390]), who was the last known Belojević in charge of Travunia, as it Serbia fell to the Byzantine Empire, in ca. 969.
See also
* Drosaico and Ljudislav (fl. 836-840), ''župan
Župan is a noble and administrative title used in several states in Central and Southeastern Europe between the 7th century and the 21st century. It was (and in Croatia still is) the leader of the administrative unit župa (or zhupa, županij ...
''s of Narentia who defeated Venetian ''doge'', Pietro Tradonico
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(r. 836–864), and hundreds of his men in 839/840
Notes
. His given name is also rendered as ''Kraina'', while his surname as ''Belić''. According to name culture, his full name was ''Krajina Belojević''. His name means "frontier" (see ''krajina Krajina () is a Slavic toponym, meaning ' frontier' or 'march'. The term is related to ''kraj'' or ''krai'', originally meaning 'edge'Rick Derksen (2008), ''Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon'', Brill: Leiden-Boston, page 244 a ...
''), derived from the word ''kraj
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'', which means "province
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", "region
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", "territory
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" or "end".
References
Sources
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* Tibor Živković, ''Portreti srpskih vladara'' (IX—XII), Beograd
Belgrade ( , ;, ; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 million ...
, 2006 (), pp. 11–15
* Božidar Ferjančić, „Vizantijski izvori za istoriju naroda Jugoslavije II“ (fototipsko izdanje originala iz 1959), Beograd, 2007. (str. 62)
* Grupa autora, „Istorija srpskog naroda I“, Beograd, 1981. (str. 148)
* Andrija Veselinović, Radoš Ljušić, ''„Srpske dinastije“'', Novi Sad, 2001. (str. 24)
* P. Radonjić, ''„Velaj“'', u: ''Srpski biografski rečnik'', II tom, ur. Čedomir Popov, Novi Sad 2008, str. 109-110.
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9th-century Serbian nobility
People from Trebinje
Slavic warriors