Mokronoge is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

in the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Tomislavgrad Tomislavgrad (), also known by its former name Duvno (), is a town and municipality located in Canton 10 of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It mainly covers an area of the historical and geographica ...

Canton 10 Canton 10 ( hr, Hercegbosanska županija; bs, Kanton 10; sr-cyrl, Кантон 10) or Herzeg-Bosnian canton is the largest of the cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by area and eighth by population. It mainly covers an are ...

, the

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History

Roman period

Prior to the Roman conquest, the territory of the present-day Mokronoge was a part of the centre of the

Dalmatae The Delmatae, alternatively Dalmatæ, during the Roman period, were a group of Illyrian tribes in Dalmatia, contemporary southern Croatia and western Bosnia and Herzegovina. The region of Dalmatia takes its name from the tribe. The Delmatae ap ...

, a group of Illyrian tribes. Mokronoge were part of the

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municipium In ancient Rome, the Latin term (pl. ) referred to a town or city. Etymologically, the was a social contract among ("duty holders"), or citizens of the town. The duties () were a communal obligation assumed by the in exchange for the privi ...

Delminium Delminium was an Illyrian city and the capital of the Dalmatia which was located somewhere near today's Tomislavgrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina, under which name it also was the seat of a Latin bishopric (also known as ''Delminium''). Name The top ...

. Delminium became a municipium during the reign of Emperor

Hadrian Hadrian (; la, Caesar Trâiānus Hadriānus ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born in Italica (close to modern Santiponce in Spain), a Roman ''municipium'' founded by Italic settlers in Hispania B ...

in the first half of the 2nd century. The municipium was headed by the municipal council, whose members also came from the present-day Mokronoge. In the municipium of Delminium

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was the most worshiped deity, including the present-day village of Mokronoge, which is one of the sites in the area of this municipality where an altar to the god Jupiter was found.

Ottoman period

After the

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between the

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and the

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, the bishop of

Makarska Makarska (; it, Macarsca, ; german: Macharscha) is a town on the Adriatic coastline of Croatia, about southeast of Split (city), Split and northwest of Dubrovnik, in the Split-Dalmatia County. Makarska is a prominent regional tourist center, ...

Marijan Lišnjić Marijan Lišnjić (1609–7 March 1686) was a Croatian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of Makarska and apostolic administrator of Duvno from 1664 to 1686. Both of his dioceses were under the Ottoman occupation, and t ...

made a visit to the parish of Duvno, of which Mokronoge was a part of, and reported that although the parish of Duvno encompasses numerous villages, none of them has a church. The old churches were destroyed, while the Catholics weren't allowed to build the new ones. On the other hand, the Muslims had a mosque in the town of Županj Potok. The population in the region was small. The Catholics were a minority, but there weren't a lot of Muslims either. The parish priest for the Catholics in the region at the time was their local Ivan Ančić. In 1743, the apostolic vicar of Bosnia, Bishop

Pavao Dragičević Pavao Dragičević (1694 – 14 February 1773) was a Bosnian Franciscan friar and bishop. Dragičević was born in Tješilo, a village near Fojnica in Ottoman Bosnia, and studied in present-day Italy. After the death of the first Bosnian apostolic ...

ordered a census to be made, which found Mokronoge, at the time part of the parish of Duvno, uninhabited, as the town of Županj Potok itself with other nearby villages. His successor Bishop Marijan Bogdanović conducted a census in 1768, which saw a mild increase in population in the parish of Dunvo. The 19th century was as bad for the Catholics in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as the previous, marked by wars and rebellions. The situation for the Catholics of Duvno was the same. At the time, they had only one parish seated in

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. Mijo Čuić, the local parish priest, decided to move the seat to Seonica in 1806. However, as the parish was geographically too large, he divided it into two and established a chaplaincy in Mokronoge in 1829, which in 1839 became a parish in its own right. However, in 1861, the seat of the newly-established parish was moved to the town of Županj Potok. Franciscan Petar Bakula wrote two schematisms, one for the

Franciscan Province of Herzegovina Franciscan Province of Herzegovina of the Ascension of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a province of the Catholic religious order of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as Franciscans. It was established in 1843 when it seceded from the Franciscan ...

in 1867, and the other for the

Apostolic Vicariate of Herzegovina Apostolic Vicariate of Herzegovina ( la, Vicariatus Apostolicus in Hercegovina; hr, Apostolski vikarijat u Hercegovini) was an apostolic vicariate of the Catholic Church in the Ottoman Herzegovina that existed between 1846 and 1881, when it wa ...

in 1873. According to these two schematisms, in 1867, Mokronoge had 82 Catholics, and in 1873, their number rose to 110.

History

Roman period

Ottoman period

Modern history

Demographics

Footnotes

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