Stephen Kulinić ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Stjepan Kulinić, Стјепан Кулинић), son of

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Ban Kulin Kulin ( sh-Cyrl, Кулин; d. November 1204) was the Banate of Bosnia, Ban of Bosnia from 1180 to 1204, first as a vassal of the Byzantine Empire and then of the Kingdom of Hungary, although his state was de facto independent. He was one of B ...

, was a Bosnian Ban in 1204–1232. He was a faithful

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and thus a supporter of the Hungarian Crown, but not very popular in

– as he turned away from his father's policies and persecuted the Bogumils. He was the last member of the

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The

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spread greatly across Bosnia and even further, throughout

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, southern parts of the

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and the Seaside and even went as far as

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and southern

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during his reign. It became very illfamed in

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and

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– in the first because of its heretical teachings and opposings of the

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, and in the latter because of its political influence amongst the Bosnians in Bosnia – which was a Hungarian vassalage. Stjepan's Bosnia was thus characterized as being ''half-Barbaric''. Furious because of this,

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dispatched in 1221 his legate, Aconcius, to Bosnia, to determinate the status of the Bosnian heresy. Aconcius said that the Bogumils spread

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over there ''just as younglings are being breast-fed''. The Pope complained to the Hungarian King Andrews and the Hungarian Bishoprics to destroy the Bosnian Bogomils, calling for a crusade against Bosnia. King Andrews was fighting inner conflicts, so he could not heed the

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's callings. The

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of Kaločki, wanted to lead the Crusade against Bosnia if the Pope promised that Bosnia would be ecclesiastically subjected to him; and so the Pope asked him to keep his promise in 1225. That year by Pope's edict Bosnia, Soli and Usora was transferred to Bishop Ugrin of Kalocs' suzeiranity from the coastal Dalmatian bishoprics. The Archbishop negotiated with the ruler of

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to launch a joint operation in Bosnia. The Archbishop dispatched John Angelo of Srem, the nephew of the Hungarian King and a Byzantine emigrant to lead a military attempt into Bosnia. It is because of these anti-Bogumil activities Stjepan was deposed by the Bogumils in 1232, when a disorder caught

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. His throne was seized by

Matej Ninoslav Matej Ninoslav ( sr-cyr, Матеј Нинослав; died 1250) was the Ban of Bosnia in the period of 1232–50. Most of Bosnia was under the Kingdom of Hungary from 1235 to 1241. Ninoslav was also a Prince of Split in 1242–1244 during the loc ...

. He retired to his son, Sibislav, who ruled as

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of Usora. There he died in 1236.

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