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href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzegovina" title="Herzegovina – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Herzegovina" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herseqovina" title="Herseqovina – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Herseqovina" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_(%D3%A9%D0%BB%D0%BA%D3%99)" title="Герцеговина (өлкә) – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Герцеговина (өлкә)" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B0" title="Герцагавіна – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Герцагавіна" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B0" title="Герцагавіна – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Герцагавіна" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0" title="Херцеговина – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Херцеговина" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercegovina" title="Hercegovina – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Hercegovina" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzegovina" title="Herzegovina – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Herzegovina" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercegovina" title="Hercegovina – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Hercegovina" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercegovina" title="Hercegovina – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Hercegovina" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercegovina" title="Hercegovina – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Hercegovina" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzegowina" title="Herzegowina – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Herzegowina" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertsegoviina" title="Hertsegoviina – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Hertsegoviina" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95%CF%81%CE%B6%CE%B5%CE%B3%CE%BF%CE%B2%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%B7" title="Ερζεγοβίνη – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ερζεγοβίνη" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzegovina" title="Herzegovina – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Herzegovina" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercegovino" title="Hercegovino – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Hercegovino" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzegovina" title="Herzegovina – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Herzegovina" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%B2%DA%AF%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86" title="هرزگوین – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="هرزگوین" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herz%C3%A9govine" title="Herzégovine – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Herzégovine" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercegovina" title="Hercegovina – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Hercegovina" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%97%A4%EB%A5%B4%EC%B2%B4%EA%B3%A0%EB%B9%84%EB%82%98" title="헤르체고비나 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="헤르체고비나" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia-Herzegovina" title="Bosnia-Herzegovina – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Bosnia-Herzegovina" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hausa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%A5%D6%80%D6%81%D5%A5%D5%A3%D5%B8%D5%BE%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A1_(%D5%B7%D6%80%D5%BB%D5%A1%D5%B6)" title="Հերցեգովինա (շրջան) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Հերցեգովինա (շրջան)" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercegovina" title="Hercegovina – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Hercegovina" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzegovina" title="Herzegovina – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Herzegovina" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erzegovina" title="Erzegovina – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Erzegovina" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%A6%D7%92%D7%95%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%94_(%D7%90%D7%96%D7%95%D7%A8)" title="הרצגובינה (אזור) – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="הרצגובינה (אזור)" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzegovina" title="Herzegovina – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Herzegovina" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercegovina" title="Hercegovina – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Hercegovina" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercegovina" title="Hercegovina – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Hercegovina" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0" title="Херцеговина – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Херцеговина" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzegovina" title="Herzegovina – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Herzegovina" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzegovina" title="Herzegovina – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Herzegovina" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%98%E3%83%AB%E3%83%84%E3%82%A7%E3%82%B4%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%8A" title="ヘルツェゴヴィナ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ヘルツェゴヴィナ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercegovina" title="Hercegovina – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" 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font-weight:normal">(<a href="/wiki/Serbo-Croatian_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Serbo-Croatian language">Serbo-Croatian</a>)</span><br /><span title="Serbo-Croatian-language text"><span lang="sh-Cyrl" style="font-style: normal;">Херцеговина</span></span> <span class="languageicon" style="font-size:100%; font-weight:normal">(<a href="/wiki/Serbo-Croatian_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Serbo-Croatian language">Serbo-Croatian</a>)</span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div class="category"><a href="/wiki/Historical_region" title="Historical region">Historical region</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Herzegovina_location_map_simple.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Approximate region of Herzegovina"><img alt="Approximate region of Herzegovina" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Herzegovina_location_map_simple.svg/250px-Herzegovina_location_map_simple.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="238" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Herzegovina_location_map_simple.svg/500px-Herzegovina_location_map_simple.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="1063" data-file-height="1014" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Approximate region of Herzegovina</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Herzegovina&params=43_28_37_N_17_48_54_E_region:BA_type:city"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">43°28′37″N</span> <span class="longitude">17°48′54″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">43.47694°N 17.81500°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">43.47694; 17.81500</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Regions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/East_Herzegovina" title="East Herzegovina">East Herzegovina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Herzegovina-Neretva_Canton" title="Herzegovina-Neretva Canton">Herzegovina-Neretva</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Herzegovina_Canton" title="West Herzegovina Canton">West Herzegovina</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Largest city</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mostar" title="Mostar">Mostar</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-redah.ba_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-redah.ba-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">12,188 km<sup>2</sup> (4,706 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Land</th><td class="infobox-data">12,000 km<sup>2</sup> (5,000 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Herzegovinian</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B1" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC+1">UTC+1</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_European_Time" title="Central European Time">CET</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B2" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC+2">UTC+2</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_European_Summer_Time" title="Central European Summer Time">CEST</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Herzegovina</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="'h' in 'hi'">h</span><span title="/ɛər/: 'are' in 'bare'">ɛər</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/ɡ/: 'g' in 'guy'">ɡ</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span><span title="'v' in 'vie'">v</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">HAIRT</span>-sih-<span style="font-size:90%">GOH</span>-vih-nə</i></a> or <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="'h' in 'hi'">h</span><span title="/ɜːr/: 'ur' in 'fur'">ɜːr</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ɡ/: 'g' in 'guy'">ɡ</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'v' in 'vie'">v</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">HURT</span>-sə-goh-<span style="font-size:90%">VEE</span>-nə</i></a>; <a href="/wiki/Serbo-Croatian_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Serbo-Croatian language">Serbo-Croatian</a>: <i lang="sh">Hercegovina</i> / <span title="Serbo-Croatian-language text"><span lang="sh">Херцеговина</span></span>, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">pronounced</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="sh-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Serbo-Croatian" title="Help:IPA/Serbo-Croatian">[xɛ̌rt͡se̞ɡoʋina]</a></span>) is the southern and smaller of two main geographical <a href="/wiki/Regions_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina">regions</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a>, the other being <a href="/wiki/Bosnia_(region)" title="Bosnia (region)">Bosnia</a>. It presently does not have strictly defined administrative borders; however, in the past it was organized as <a href="/wiki/Sanjak_of_Herzegovina" title="Sanjak of Herzegovina">Sanjak of Herzegovina</a> (1470–1833; 1851–1912) and <a href="/wiki/Herzegovina_Eyalet" title="Herzegovina Eyalet">Herzegovina Eyalet</a> (1833–1851). </p><p>Bosnia, the larger of the two regions, lies to the north of Herzegovina; the <a href="/wiki/Regions_of_Croatia" title="Regions of Croatia">Croatian region</a> of <a href="/wiki/Dalmatia" title="Dalmatia">Dalmatia</a> lies to the southwest; the <a href="/wiki/Regions_of_Montenegro" class="mw-redirect" title="Regions of Montenegro">Montenegrin region</a> of <a href="/wiki/Old_Herzegovina" title="Old Herzegovina">Old Herzegovina</a> lies to the southeast. The land area of Herzegovina is around 12,000 km<sup>2</sup> (4,600 sq mi), or around 23–24% of the country. The largest city is <a href="/wiki/Mostar" title="Mostar">Mostar</a>, in the center of the region. Other large settlements include <a href="/wiki/Trebinje" title="Trebinje">Trebinje</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C5%A0iroki_Brijeg" title="Široki Brijeg">Široki Brijeg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ljubu%C5%A1ki" title="Ljubuški">Ljubuški</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C4%8Capljina" title="Čapljina">Čapljina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Konjic" title="Konjic">Konjic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Posu%C5%A1je" title="Posušje">Posušje</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herzegovina&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Ottomans were the first to officially use the name <span title="Serbo-Croatian-language text"><i lang="sh">Hercegovina</i></span> (English: <i>Herzegovina</i>; <a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a>: <i lang="tr">Hersek</i>, <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Turkish_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ottoman Turkish language">Ottoman Turkish</a>: <span lang="ota" dir="rtl">هرسك</span>) for the region in their administrative affairs in a letter from 1 February 1454, written by the Ottoman commander Esebeg from <a href="/wiki/Skopje" title="Skopje">Skopje</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVego198248_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVego198248-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and established a <a href="/wiki/Sanjak" title="Sanjak">sanjak</a> bearing that name in 1470, the <a href="/wiki/Sanjak_of_Herzegovina" title="Sanjak of Herzegovina">Sanjak of Herzegovina</a>, with its first seat at <a href="/wiki/Fo%C4%8Da" title="Foča">Foča</a>. They simply followed their established custom of naming places and territories they conquered by the name of its prior rulers. In this case Ottomans used <a href="/wiki/Stjepan_Vuk%C4%8Di%C4%87_Kosa%C4%8Da" title="Stjepan Vukčić Kosača">Stjepan Vukčić Kosača</a>'s title, <a href="/wiki/Herceg_(title)" class="mw-redirect" title="Herceg (title)">herceg</a>, a title he gave himself in 1448, and a year later changed it to Herceg of St. Sava, after the <a href="/wiki/Saint_Sava" title="Saint Sava">Serb saint</a> buried on his territory, considered a miracle worker by Christians of all faiths.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFine1994578_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFine1994578-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It practically became part of his name, in the last few years of his life when he was commonly referred to as Herceg-Stjepan, to name a region he ruled at the time of Ottoman conquest of Bosnia in the second half of the 15th century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964336Chapter_7:_Slom_Bosanske_države;_Part_3:_Pad_Bosne_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964336Chapter_7:_Slom_Bosanske_države;_Part_3:_Pad_Bosne-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964a272_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964a272-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Hercegovina</i> is, thus, a possessive noun derived from Herceg-Stjepan's title-name compound and literally means 'duke's land' (<i lang="sh"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hercegovina#Serbo-Croatian" class="extiw" title="wikt:Hercegovina">hercegovina</a></i>), 'herceg's land', herceg's holdings and/or territory owned/ruled by a <span title="Serbo-Croatian-language text"><i lang="sh">herceg</i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The title <i>herceg</i> is a Slavic form of German <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Herzog" title="Herzog">herzog</a></i></span> (the German term for a <a href="/wiki/Duke" title="Duke">duke</a>; <a href="/wiki/Serbo-Croatian_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Serbo-Croatian language">Serbo-Croatian</a>: <i lang="sh"><a href="/wiki/Vojvoda" class="mw-redirect" title="Vojvoda">vojvoda</a></i>), and the first among the <a href="/wiki/Kosa%C4%8Da_noble_family" title="Kosača noble family">Kosača dukes</a> to use the title was Herceg-Stjepan, who became the <span title="Serbo-Croatian-language text"><span lang="sh" style="font-style: normal;">Herceg</span></span> of <span title="Serbo-Croatian-language text"><span lang="sh" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Zachlumia" title="Zachlumia">Hum</a></span></span> in 1449–50. In December 1481, the lands of Stjepan Vukčić's successors were finally occupied by <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman</a> forces. Prior to the widespread adoption of the name "Herzegovina", the region was thus referred to as <span title="Serbo-Croatian-language text"><i lang="sh">Humska zemlja</i></span> ("Hum Land"), or <span title="Serbo-Croatian-language text"><i lang="sh">Hum</i></span> for short in <a href="/wiki/Serbo-Croatian" title="Serbo-Croatian">Serbo-Croatian</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVego198248_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVego198248-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964a272_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964a272-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, this is just a superficial understanding, and cannot be attributed to <span title="Serbo-Croatian-language text"><span lang="sh" style="font-style: normal;">Herceg-Stjepan</span></span> alone, as his title was not of decisive importance after all.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964a272_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964a272-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Far more crucial was a well-known Ottoman custom to call newly acquired lands by the names of its earlier lords. It was enough for the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_conquest_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Ottoman conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Ottomans to conquer</a> <span title="Serbo-Croatian-language text"><span lang="sh" style="font-style: normal;">Stjepan</span></span>'s land as a whole, to start calling it Herzegovina. Also, <span title="Serbo-Croatian-language text"><span lang="sh" style="font-style: normal;">Herceg Stjepan</span></span> did not establish this province as a feudal and political unit of the Bosnian state, that honor befell <a href="/wiki/Grand_Duke_of_Bosnia" title="Grand Duke of Bosnia">Grand Duke of Bosnia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vlatko_Vukovi%C4%87" title="Vlatko Vuković">Vlatko Vuković</a>, who received it from King <a href="/wiki/Tvrtko_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Tvrtko I">Tvrtko I</a>, while <a href="/wiki/Sandalj_Hrani%C4%87" title="Sandalj Hranić">Sandalj Hranić</a> expanded it and reaffirmed the Kosača family supremacy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964a272_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964a272-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While under <a href="/wiki/Condominium_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" class="mw-redirect" title="Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina">governance</a> of <a 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navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="History of Bosnia and Herzegovina">History of Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Medieval_period">Medieval period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herzegovina&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Medieval period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Zahumlje" class="mw-redirect" title="Zahumlje">Zahumlje</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/South_Slavs" title="South Slavs">Slavs</a> settled in the <a href="/wiki/Balkans" title="Balkans">Balkans</a> in the 7th century. What later became known as Herzegovina was divided between <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Croatia" title="Duchy of Croatia">Croatia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zachlumia" title="Zachlumia">Zachlumia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Travunia" title="Travunia">Travunia</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Early_Middle_Ages" title="Early Middle Ages">Early Middle Ages</a>. Parts of the region were ruled by various medieval rulers, who were in vassal relations to <a href="/wiki/Serbia_in_the_Middle_Ages" title="Serbia in the Middle Ages">Medieval Serbia</a> on the east, and the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Croatia_(925%E2%80%931102)" title="Kingdom of Croatia (925–1102)">Kingdom of Croatia</a> on the west. In the 1100s Hum was in the hands of the <a href="/wiki/Nemanji%C4%87_dynasty" title="Nemanjić dynasty">Nemanjić</a> family, Hungary also claimed Hum as part of its claim on Bosnia, and wars were fought for control by Hungary and the Nemanjić family.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFine199452–53_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFine199452–53-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the early 13th century <a href="/wiki/Ra%C5%A1ka_(region)" title="Raška (region)">Raška</a> held control of most of Hum, and <a href="/wiki/Saint_Sava" title="Saint Sava">Sava</a> created a Serbian a bishopric at <a href="/wiki/Ston" title="Ston">Ston</a> in 1220. In the 1220s Peter is referred to as the Prince of Hum, and he was also elected Prince of <a href="/wiki/Spalato" class="mw-redirect" title="Spalato">Split</a>. The Catholic Church excommunicated him because of his <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Orthodoxy</a>, but the citizens of Split kept him as prince. Following his death his descendants continued to rule at least part of Hum for a number of decades.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFine1994142–143_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFine1994142–143-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the course of the war between <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Uro%C5%A1_II_Milutin_of_Serbia" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen Uroš II Milutin of Serbia">Stephen Uroš II Milutin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Dragutin_of_Serbia" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen Dragutin of Serbia">Stephen Dragutin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_I_%C5%A0ubi%C4%87_of_Bribir" title="Paul I Šubić of Bribir">Paul I Šubić of Bribir</a> from Croatia expanded not only into western Hum, but also beyond the Neretva river, and took the region of <a href="/wiki/Nevesinje" title="Nevesinje">Nevesinje</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ston" title="Ston">Ston</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFine1991258_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFine1991258-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Paul appointed his eldest son, <a href="/wiki/Mladen_II_%C5%A0ubi%C4%87_of_Bribir" title="Mladen II Šubić of Bribir">Mladen II</a>, as Lord of Hum.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKarbić200417_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKarbić200417-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At least part of Paul's conquests were granted to his vassal <a href="/wiki/House_of_Nelipi%C4%87" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Nelipić">Constantine Nelipčić</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFine1991258_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFine1991258-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After Paul's death, Milutin and Dragutin concluded a peace, and went to war against the <a href="/wiki/House_of_%C5%A0ubi%C4%87" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Šubić">Šubić family</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFine1991258_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFine1991258-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the war that followed Milutin took one of Mladen's brother captive, and to get him back Mladen Šubić had to agree to restore a part of Hum to Milutin.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFine1991258_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFine1991258-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After this agreement in 1313 the Neretva again became the border between eastern and western Hum.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFine1991258_11-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFine1991258-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the death of <a href="/wiki/Stefan_Milutin" title="Stefan Milutin">Milutin</a> in 1321, various Serb nobles took sides and in Hum the <a href="/wiki/Branivojevi%C4%87_noble_family" title="Branivojević noble family">Branivojević</a> family became the strongest.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFine1994266–268_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFine1994266–268-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With their court at Ston they claimed lands from the <a href="/wiki/Cetina" title="Cetina">Cetina</a> River to Kotor, including Pelješac. The <a href="/wiki/Banate_of_Bosnia" title="Banate of Bosnia">Bosnian Ban</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stephen_II,_Ban_of_Bosnia" title="Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia">Stjepan Kotoromanić</a>, with allied Hum nobles and Serbia refusing to support the <a href="/wiki/Branivojevi%C4%87_noble_family" title="Branivojević noble family">Branivojević</a>, took over and annexed Hum in 1326. As part of the war for Hum, Dubrovnik sought to take over <a href="/wiki/Pelje%C5%A1ac" title="Pelješac">Pelješac</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ston" title="Ston">Ston</a>, part of Hum held by the Branivojević. Serbia refused to yield it, which led to conflict between Dubrovnik and Serbia. In 1333 the new king of Serbia, <a href="/wiki/Stefan_Du%C5%A1an" title="Stefan Dušan">Stefan Dušan</a>, sold Pelješac and Ston to Dubrovnik for cash and an annual tribute.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFine1994266–268_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFine1994266–268-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Under Bosnia Kotoromanović's allies, the Draživojević/<a href="/wiki/Sankovi%C4%87_noble_family" title="Sanković noble family">Sankovic</a> family of <a href="/wiki/Nevesinje" title="Nevesinje">Nevesinje</a>, became the leading family in Hum, while Serbian vassals retained eastern Herzegovina.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFine1994266–268_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFine1994266–268-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other than a rebellion by Toljen of Hum's son, Peter, whom Stjepan captured and put to death, the Hum nobles remained largely loyal to Kotoromanić, while also continuing to manage their local regions. Stjepan did take direct control of the valuable custom's house at Drijeva (<a href="/wiki/Metkovi%C4%87" title="Metković">Metković</a>). The population of Hum remained overwhelmingly Orthodox, compared to elsewhere in Bosnia where the <a href="/wiki/Bosnian_Church" title="Bosnian Church">Bosnian Church</a> predominated, and after the arrival of the <a href="/wiki/Franciscans" title="Franciscans">Franciscans</a> in the 1340s, Catholicism also began to spread.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFine1994279_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFine1994279-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 13th and early 14th centuries the Bosnian <i><a href="/wiki/Ban_(title)" title="Ban (title)">bans</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Stjepan_I_Kotromani%C4%87" class="mw-redirect" title="Stjepan I Kotromanić">Stjepan I Kotromanić</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stjepan_II_Kotromani%C4%87" class="mw-redirect" title="Stjepan II Kotromanić">Stjepan II Kotromanić</a> joined these regions to the Bosnian state, with the King <a href="/wiki/Tvrtko_I_of_Bosnia" title="Tvrtko I of Bosnia">Tvrtko I Kotromanić</a> extending territories even further, beyond what is modern-day Herzegovina proper.<sup id="cite_ref-redah.ba_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-redah.ba-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEĆirković19642._ОСВАЈАЊЕ_ХУМА_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEĆirković19642._ОСВАЈАЊЕ_ХУМА-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964178_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964178-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Humska_zemlja_under_Kosača's"><span id="Humska_zemlja_under_Kosa.C4.8Da.27s"></span><i>Humska zemlja</i> under Kosača's</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herzegovina&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Humska zemlja under Kosača's"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stari_Grad_Herceg_Novi.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cd/Stari_Grad_Herceg_Novi.JPG/250px-Stari_Grad_Herceg_Novi.JPG" decoding="async" width="221" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cd/Stari_Grad_Herceg_Novi.JPG/500px-Stari_Grad_Herceg_Novi.JPG 1.5x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption>Town of Novi, founded by the <a href="/wiki/King_Tvrtko_I" class="mw-redirect" title="King Tvrtko I">King Tvrtko I</a>, today <a href="/wiki/Herceg_Novi" title="Herceg Novi">Herceg Novi</a>, was winter residence of Kosača</figcaption></figure> <p>During this period, parts of Herzegovina, or as it was called at the time <i><a href="/wiki/Humska_zemlja" title="Humska zemlja">Humska zemlja</a></i>, or simply <i>Hum</i>, were given by the King Tvrtko I to, at that point in time relatively insignificant Bosnian clan of <a href="/wiki/Kosa%C4%8Da" class="mw-redirect" title="Kosača">Kosača</a> family and its <a href="/wiki/Vukovi%C4%87" title="Vuković">Vuković</a> branch, headed by <a href="/wiki/Vlatko_Vukovi%C4%87" title="Vlatko Vuković">Vlatko Vuković</a>, who received it as an award for his service as a supreme commander of the Bosnian army.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964a272_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964a272-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another powerful Bosnian noble family, <a href="/wiki/Pavlovi%C4%87_noble_family" title="Pavlović noble family">Pavlović</a>, at the time headed by <a href="/wiki/Pavle_Radinovi%C4%87" title="Pavle Radinović">Pavle Radinović</a>, whose seat was near <a href="/wiki/Rogatica" title="Rogatica">Rogatica</a> in <a href="/wiki/Drina_(%C5%BEupa)" title="Drina (župa)">Drina</a> county, including holdings in Drina and parts of <a href="/wiki/Vrhbosna" title="Vrhbosna">Vrhbosna</a>, also shared some of the territories in Hum centered around <a href="/wiki/Trebinje" title="Trebinje">Trebinje</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-old.kons-borač_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-old.kons-borač-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-M.A.-Thesis-Pavle-Radinović_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-M.A.-Thesis-Pavle-Radinović-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, at the time when Kosače received the Hum from the King, another powerful Bosnian noble family had a primacy in the region. That family was the <a href="/wiki/Sankovi%C4%87_noble_family" title="Sanković noble family">Sanković</a>'s, credited for capturing Hum for Bosnia and the Ban Stjepan II, who in 1326, dispatched their early branch, the Draživojević's (the next generation of Bogopenec<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), whose head was <a href="/wiki/Milten_Dra%C5%BEivojevi%C4%87" title="Milten Draživojević">Milten Draživojević</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFajfrić2000_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFajfrić2000-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> along with other noblemen, into Hum to oust the <a href="/wiki/Branivojevi%C4%87_noble_family" title="Branivojević noble family">Branivojević family</a>, who were, at the time, loyal to Serbia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFine1994266–267_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFine1994266–267-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>So, Sanković's were very active in the 14th and start of the 15th century in <a href="#History">Hum</a>. Their seat was in <a href="/wiki/Glavati%C4%8Devo" title="Glavatičevo">Glavatičevo</a>'s hamlet Biskupi, where today the family burial place with a <i><a href="/wiki/Ste%C4%87ak" title="Stećak">stećci</a></i> is still present and protected as a <a href="/wiki/National_monuments_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" class="mw-redirect" title="National monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina">National monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-old.kons.gov.ba-Grčka_Glavica_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-old.kons.gov.ba-Grčka_Glavica-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The most prominent members were Sanko Miltenović, the eponymous founder of the Sanković's (the progenitor was <a href="/wiki/Dra%C5%BEen_Bogopenec" title="Dražen Bogopenec">Dražen Bogopenec</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who died in a battle while leading the Bosnian army to aid <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ragusa" title="Republic of Ragusa">Ragusa</a> against Serbian lord, the Altomanović, who campaigned against Ragusa in 1370, and his oldest son, <a href="/wiki/Radi%C4%8D_Sankovi%C4%87" title="Radič Sanković">Radić Sanković</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman</a> threat was brewing to the east, threatening Bosnia and its southeastern regions in Hum. On 27 August 1388, Radić participated in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bile%C4%87a" title="Battle of Bileća">Battle of Bileća</a>, when the Bosnian army led by the Grand Duke Vlatko, defeated an Ottoman raiding party of up to 18,000 strong.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-plemenito.com-bitka-bilece-grob-vlatka-vukovica_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-plemenito.com-bitka-bilece-grob-vlatka-vukovica-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bosnian heavy cavalry is typically credited with winning the battle as they broke the Ottoman ranks and pursued the retreating enemy. Celebrated Ottoman commander <a href="/wiki/Lala_%C5%9Eahin_Pasha" class="mw-redirect" title="Lala Şahin Pasha">Lala Sahin Pasha</a> (<a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a>: <i lang="tr">Lala Şahin Paşa</i>, 1330 – cca 1382) barely managed to save himself with the small band of his soldiers.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964157–158_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964157–158-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Maslo-knez_Pavle_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Maslo-knez_Pavle-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ivan_Lovrenović-Hastings-1998_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ivan_Lovrenović-Hastings-1998-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1391–1392, Radič and his brother Beljak tried to sell their possessions in <a href="/wiki/Konavle" title="Konavle">Konavle</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ragusa" title="Republic of Ragusa">Republic of Ragusa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, a <i><a href="/wiki/Stanak" title="Stanak">stanak</a></i> was convoked by the king and the noblemen who opposed the sale of <a href="/wiki/Konavli" class="mw-redirect" title="Konavli">Konavli</a> by <a href="/wiki/Radi%C4%8D_Sankovi%C4%87" title="Radič Sanković">Radič Sanković</a> to <a href="/wiki/Dubrovnik" title="Dubrovnik">Dubrovnik</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Fine4563_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fine4563-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Grand Duke Vlatko Vuković and the knez Pavle Radinović were sent against Radič in December 1391 after receiving the <i>stanak</i>'s blessings.<sup id="cite_ref-Fine4563_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fine4563-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two captured Radič and occupied Konavli, dividing it between themselves, despite protests from Ragusa.<sup id="cite_ref-Fine4563_30-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fine4563-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFine1994456_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFine1994456-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Vlatko Vuković died sometime between August 1392 - August 1393,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKurtović200920–26_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKurtović200920–26-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he was succeeded by his nephew the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Duke_of_Bosnia" title="Grand Duke of Bosnia">Grand Duke of Bosnia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sandalj_Hrani%C4%87" title="Sandalj Hranić">Sandalj Hranić</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEĆirković19642._ОСВАЈАЊЕ_ХУМА_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEĆirković19642._ОСВАЈАЊЕ_ХУМА-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964178_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964178-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who continued struggle against Radič,<sup id="cite_ref-Fine4563_30-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fine4563-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who regained his freedom in 1398, immediately seeking to restore his lost lands, becoming an important ally of the <a href="/wiki/King_Ostoja" class="mw-redirect" title="King Ostoja">King Stjepan Ostoja</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Fine459_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fine459-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Radič participated in the <a href="/wiki/Bosnian-Dubrovnik_War_in_1403-1404" class="mw-redirect" title="Bosnian-Dubrovnik War in 1403-1404">Bosnian-Dubrovnik War in 1403-1404</a>, leading the attacks on Dubrovnik in the name of the King Stjepan Ostoja. Sandalj captured Radič, took all of his land, and after blinding him he throw him in prison, where Radić died in 1404 marking the end of the Sanković family.<sup id="cite_ref-Fine4563_30-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fine4563-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When Sandalj died, <a href="/wiki/Stjepan_Vuk%C4%8Di%C4%87" class="mw-redirect" title="Stjepan Vukčić">Stjepan Vukčić</a>, as Sandalj's nephew, inherited lordship over the Hum, and was the last Bosnian nobleman who had effective control over the province (<i><a href="/wiki/Zemlja_(feudal_Balkans)" class="mw-redirect" title="Zemlja (feudal Balkans)">zemlja</a></i>) before <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_conquest_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Ottoman conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Ottoman conquest</a>. He titled himself <i>Duke of Hum and Primorje, Bosnian Grand Duke, <a href="/wiki/Knyaz" title="Knyaz">Knyaz</a> of Drina</i>, and later <i>Herzog of Saint Sava, Lord of Hum and Bosnian Grand Duke, Knyaz of Drina and the rest</i>. Following the Ottomans conquest and fall of <a href="/wiki/Bosnian_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Bosnian Kingdom">Bosnian Kingdom</a>, <i>Hum</i> or <i>Humska zemlja</i> became known as <i>Hercegovina</i> (<abbr title="translation">transl.</abbr><span> Herzegovina</span>), which literally means "Herzog's land".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVego198248_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVego198248-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Zastava_velikog_vojvodstva_-_hercestva_Kosaca.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Zastava_velikog_vojvodstva_-_hercestva_Kosaca.svg/250px-Zastava_velikog_vojvodstva_-_hercestva_Kosaca.svg.png" decoding="async" width="219" height="211" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Zastava_velikog_vojvodstva_-_hercestva_Kosaca.svg/330px-Zastava_velikog_vojvodstva_-_hercestva_Kosaca.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Zastava_velikog_vojvodstva_-_hercestva_Kosaca.svg/438px-Zastava_velikog_vojvodstva_-_hercestva_Kosaca.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="489" data-file-height="471" /></a><figcaption>Kosača symbols during Stjepan Vukčić</figcaption></figure> <p>The name <i>"Herzegovina"</i>, which still exists with the name <a href="/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVego198248_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVego198248-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964a272_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964a272-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is the most-important and indelible legacy of Stjepan Vukčić Kosača; it is unique within the Serbo-Croatian-speaking Balkans, because one person gave his noble title, which in the last few years of his life became inseparable from his name, to a region previously called <i>Humska zemlja</i> or <i>Hum</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Ottoman custom of calling newly acquired lands by the names of their earlier rulers was of decisive importance.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964a272_7-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964a272-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also, Stjepan did not establish this province as a feudal and political unit of the Bosnian state; that honor befell <a href="/wiki/Grand_Duke_of_Bosnia" title="Grand Duke of Bosnia">Grand Duke of Bosnia</a> <a href="/wiki/Vlatko_Vukovi%C4%87" title="Vlatko Vuković">Vlatko Vuković</a>, who received it from King <a href="/wiki/Tvrtko_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Tvrtko I">Tvrtko I</a>; <a href="/wiki/Sandalj_Hrani%C4%87" title="Sandalj Hranić">Sandalj Hranić</a> expanded it and reaffirmed the Kosača family's supremacy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964a272_7-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964a272-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1451, Stjepan attacked and laid siege to the city of <a href="/wiki/Dubrovnik" title="Dubrovnik">Dubrovnik</a>. He had earlier been made a nobleman of the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ragusa" title="Republic of Ragusa">Republic of Ragusa</a>, so consequently, the Ragusan government now proclaimed him a traitor. A reward of 15,000 <a href="/wiki/Ducat" title="Ducat">ducats</a>, a palace in Dubrovnik worth 2,000 ducats, and an annual income of 300 ducats was offered to anyone who would kill him, along with the promise of hereditary Ragusan nobility which also helped hold this promise to whoever did the deed. The threat worked and Stjepan eventually raised the siege.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKrekić1978388–389_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKrekić1978388–389-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Stjepan Vukčić died in 1466 and was succeeded as <i><a href="/wiki/Herceg_(title)" class="mw-redirect" title="Herceg (title)">herceg</a></i> by his second-youngest son <a href="/wiki/Vlatko_Hercegovi%C4%87" title="Vlatko Hercegović">Vlatko Hercegović</a>, who struggled to retain as much of the territory as he could.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964336_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964336-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1471, the Ottomans excluded Hum from the <a href="/wiki/Bosnian_Sanjak" class="mw-redirect" title="Bosnian Sanjak">Bosnian Sanjak</a> and established a new, separate <a href="/wiki/Sanjak_of_Herzegovina" title="Sanjak of Herzegovina">Sanjak of Herzegovina</a> with its seat in <a href="/wiki/Fo%C4%8Da" title="Foča">Foča</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964339_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964339-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964336–341_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964336–341-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 1481, <a href="/wiki/Ayas_Pasha_of_Bosnia" title="Ayas Pasha of Bosnia">Ajaz-Bey</a> of the Sanjak of Herzegovina besieged Vlatko's capital <a href="/wiki/Herceg_Novi" title="Herceg Novi">Novi</a> but just before 14 December 1481, Vlatko ceased resisting and agreed with the Ottomans to move with his family to Istanbul. Now the entirety of Herzegovina was reorganized into the already established Sanjak of Herzegovina with the seat in Foča,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964339_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964339-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later, in 1580, would become one of the sanjaks of the <a href="/wiki/Bosnia_Eyalet" title="Bosnia Eyalet">Bosnia Eyalet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-IDBIH-1952_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IDBIH-1952-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This signified the disappearance of the last-remaining independent point of the medieval Bosnian state.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964340–341_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEĆirković1964340–341-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ottoman_period">Ottoman period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herzegovina&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Ottoman period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Sanjak_of_Herzegovina" title="Sanjak of Herzegovina">Sanjak of Herzegovina</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Western_Herzegovina_1760_flag.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Western_Herzegovina_1760_flag.svg/250px-Western_Herzegovina_1760_flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="223" height="112" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Western_Herzegovina_1760_flag.svg/500px-Western_Herzegovina_1760_flag.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption>Flag of the <a href="/wiki/Herzegovina_Eyalet" title="Herzegovina Eyalet">Herzegovina Eyalet</a> (1833–1851)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hercegova%C4%8Dki_begunci,_Uro%C5%A1_Predi%C4%87.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hercegova%C4%8Dki_begunci%2C_Uro%C5%A1_Predi%C4%87.jpg/250px-Hercegova%C4%8Dki_begunci%2C_Uro%C5%A1_Predi%C4%87.jpg" decoding="async" width="222" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hercegova%C4%8Dki_begunci%2C_Uro%C5%A1_Predi%C4%87.jpg/500px-Hercegova%C4%8Dki_begunci%2C_Uro%C5%A1_Predi%C4%87.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="1333" data-file-height="1028" /></a><figcaption><i>Refugees from the <a href="/wiki/Herzegovina_uprising_(1875%E2%80%931877)" title="Herzegovina uprising (1875–1877)">Herzegovina Uprising</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Uro%C5%A1_Predi%C4%87" title="Uroš Predić">Uroš Predić</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1482, the lands of Stefan Vukčić's successors were occupied by Ottoman forces. The Ottomans were the first to begin officially using the name Herzegovina (Hersek) for the region. </p><p>The Bosnian <a href="/wiki/Beylerbey" title="Beylerbey">beylerbey</a> <a href="/wiki/Isa-beg_Ishakovi%C4%87" class="mw-redirect" title="Isa-beg Ishaković">Isa-beg Ishaković</a> mentioned the name in a letter from 1454. In the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a>, Herzegovina was organized as a <i><a href="/wiki/Sanjak" title="Sanjak">sanjak</a></i>, the <a href="/wiki/Sanjak_of_Herzegovina" title="Sanjak of Herzegovina">Sanjak of Herzegovina</a>, within the <a href="/wiki/Bosnia_Eyalet" title="Bosnia Eyalet">Bosnia Eyalet</a>. According to the Turkish census of Herzegovina from 1477, some villages were mentioned as being "in the possession of Vlachs," while others, were listed as "Serb settlements" and mostly deserted.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Ottoman <a href="/wiki/Defter" title="Defter">defters</a>, at the end of the 15th century in Herzegovina were at least 35,000 Vlachs.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Long_War_(1591%E2%80%931606)" class="mw-redirect" title="Long War (1591–1606)">Long War (1591–1606)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Serb_Uprising_of_1596%E2%80%9397" class="mw-redirect" title="Serb Uprising of 1596–97">Serbs rose up in Herzegovina (1596–97)</a>, but they were quickly suppressed after their defeat at the field of <a href="/wiki/Gacko" title="Gacko">Gacko</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Candian_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Candian War">Candian War</a> of 1645 to 1669 caused great damage to the region as the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Venice" title="Republic of Venice">Republic of Venice</a> and the Ottoman Empire fought for control over <a href="/wiki/Dalmatia" title="Dalmatia">Dalmatia</a> and coastal Herzegovina. </p><p>As a result of the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Karlowitz" title="Treaty of Karlowitz">Treaty of Karlowitz</a> of 1699, the Ottomans gained access to the <a href="/wiki/Adriatic_Sea" title="Adriatic Sea">Adriatic Sea</a> through the <a href="/wiki/Neum" title="Neum">Neum</a>-<a href="/wiki/Klek_(peninsula)" title="Klek (peninsula)">Klek</a> coastal area. The <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Dubrovnik" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Dubrovnik">Republic of Dubrovnik</a> ceded this to distance themselves from the <a href="/wiki/Venetian_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Venetian Republic">Venetian Republic</a>'s influence. The Ottomans benefitted from this in gaining the region's salt. </p><p>As a result of the <a href="/wiki/Bosnian_Uprising_(1831%E2%80%9332)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bosnian Uprising (1831–32)">Bosnian Uprising (1831–32)</a>, the Vilayet was split to form the separate <a href="/wiki/Herzegovina_Eyalet" title="Herzegovina Eyalet">Herzegovina Eyalet</a>, ruled by semi-independent <a href="/wiki/Vizier" title="Vizier">vizier</a> <a href="/wiki/Ali-pa%C5%A1a_Rizvanbegovi%C4%87" class="mw-redirect" title="Ali-paša Rizvanbegović">Ali-paša Rizvanbegović</a>. After his death, the eyalets of Bosnia and Herzegovina were merged. </p><p>The new joint entity was after 1853 commonly referred to as Bosnia and Herzegovina. Serbs in the region <a href="/wiki/Herzegovina_Uprising_(1852%E2%80%9362)" class="mw-redirect" title="Herzegovina Uprising (1852–62)">revolted against the Ottomans (1852–62)</a> and were aided by the Montenegrins, who sought the liberation of the <a href="/wiki/Serb_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Serb people">Serb people</a> from Ottoman rule. </p><p>The Herzegovinian Serbs frequently rose up against the Ottoman rule; culminating in the <a href="/wiki/Herzegovina_Uprising_(1875-78)" class="mw-redirect" title="Herzegovina Uprising (1875-78)">Herzegovina Uprising (1875-78)</a>, which was supported by the <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Serbia" title="Principality of Serbia">Principality of Serbia</a> and Montenegro. </p><p>Montenegro did succeed in liberating and annexing large parts of Herzegovina before the <a href="/wiki/Berlin_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Berlin Congress">Berlin Congress</a> of 1878, including the <a href="/wiki/Nik%C5%A1i%C4%87" title="Nikšić">Nikšić</a> area; the historical Herzegovina region annexed to Montenegro is known as East or <a href="/wiki/Old_Herzegovina" title="Old Herzegovina">Old Herzegovina</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_history">Modern history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herzegovina&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Modern history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Herzegovina_(1878-1918).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Flag_of_Herzegovina_%281878-1918%29.svg/220px-Flag_of_Herzegovina_%281878-1918%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Flag_of_Herzegovina_%281878-1918%29.svg/330px-Flag_of_Herzegovina_%281878-1918%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Flag_of_Herzegovina_%281878-1918%29.svg/440px-Flag_of_Herzegovina_%281878-1918%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="825" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption>Flag of Herzegovina, during the <a href="/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_rule_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina">Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina</a> (1878–1918)</figcaption></figure> <p>As a result of the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Berlin_(1878)" title="Treaty of Berlin (1878)">Treaty of Berlin (1878)</a>, Herzegovina, along with Bosnia, were <a href="/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_occupation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" class="mw-redirect" title="Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina">occupied by Austria-Hungary</a>, only nominally remaining under Ottoman rule. </p><p>The historical Herzegovina region in the <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Montenegro" title="Principality of Montenegro">Principality of Montenegro</a> was known as East or <a href="/wiki/Old_Herzegovina" title="Old Herzegovina">Old Herzegovina</a>. The Serb population of Herzegovina and Bosnia hoped for annexation to <a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia">Serbia</a> and Montenegro. The Franciscan order opened the first university in Herzegovina in 1895 in <a href="/wiki/Mostar" title="Mostar">Mostar</a>. </p><p>In 1908, Austria-Hungary annexed the province, leading to the <a href="/wiki/Bosnian_Crisis" title="Bosnian Crisis">Bosnian Crisis</a>, an international dispute which barely failed to precipitate a world war immediately, and was an important step in the buildup of international tensions during the years leading up to the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>. The assassination of the <a href="/wiki/Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand" class="mw-redirect" title="Archduke Franz Ferdinand">Archduke Franz Ferdinand</a> came as a direct result of the resentment of the Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina against Austro-Hungarian rule. </p><p>During <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, Herzegovina was a scene of inter-ethnic conflict. During the war, the Austro-Hungarian government formed <a href="/wiki/%C5%A0uckori" class="mw-redirect" title="Šuckori">Šuckori</a>, Muslim para-militia units. Šuckori units were especially active in Herzegovina. Persecution of Serbs conducted by the Austro-Hungarian authorities was the "first incidence of active 'ethnic cleansing' in Bosnia and Herzegovina".<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1918, Herzegovina became a part of the newly formed <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Serbs,_Croats_and_Slovenes" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes">Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes</a> (later renamed <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Yugoslavia" title="Kingdom of Yugoslavia">Kingdom of Yugoslavia</a>). In 1941 Herzegovina fell under the governance of the <a href="/wiki/Fascist" class="mw-redirect" title="Fascist">fascist</a> axis puppet state <a href="/wiki/Independent_State_of_Croatia" title="Independent State of Croatia">Independent State of Croatia</a>. During <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, Herzegovina was a battleground between fascist Croat <a href="/wiki/Usta%C5%A1e" title="Ustaše">Ustaše</a>, royalist Serb <a href="/wiki/%C4%8Cetniks" class="mw-redirect" title="Četniks">Četniks</a>, and the communist <a href="/wiki/Yugoslav_Partisans" title="Yugoslav Partisans">Yugoslav Partisans</a>; Herzegovina was a part of the <a href="/wiki/Independent_State_of_Croatia" title="Independent State of Croatia">Independent State of Croatia</a>, administratively divided into the counties of Hum and Dubrava, then in 1945, <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina</a> became one of the republics of <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia" title="Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia">Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia</a>. It remained so until the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. During the <a href="/wiki/Bosnian_War" title="Bosnian War">Bosnian War</a>, large parts of western and central Herzegovina became part of the Croat republic of <a href="/wiki/Herzeg-Bosnia" class="mw-redirect" title="Herzeg-Bosnia">Herzeg-Bosnia</a> (which later joined the <a href="/wiki/Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina</a>) while eastern Herzegovina became a part of the Serb republic of <a href="/wiki/Republika_Srpska" title="Republika Srpska">Republika Srpska</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herzegovina&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hercegovacko_Neretvanski_kanton.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Hercegovacko_Neretvanski_kanton.jpg/330px-Hercegovacko_Neretvanski_kanton.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="105" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Hercegovacko_Neretvanski_kanton.jpg/500px-Hercegovacko_Neretvanski_kanton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Hercegovacko_Neretvanski_kanton.jpg/960px-Hercegovacko_Neretvanski_kanton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="697" /></a><figcaption>Herzegovina in spring at Ivan Sedlo, mountain pass between <a href="/wiki/Ivan_planina" title="Ivan planina">Ivan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bjela%C5%A1nica" title="Bjelašnica">Bjelašnica</a> mountains</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%C4%8Cvrsnica_0339.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/%C4%8Cvrsnica_0339.jpg/250px-%C4%8Cvrsnica_0339.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="89" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/%C4%8Cvrsnica_0339.jpg/330px-%C4%8Cvrsnica_0339.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/%C4%8Cvrsnica_0339.jpg/500px-%C4%8Cvrsnica_0339.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="570" /></a><figcaption>Western slopes of <a href="/wiki/%C4%8Cvrsnica" title="Čvrsnica">Čvrsnica</a>, as seen from the <a href="/wiki/Blidinje" class="mw-redirect" title="Blidinje">Blidinje Plateau</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Herzegovina is a southern region of <a href="/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a>. Its borders and territory have never been strictly defined, be it geographically or culturally, nor has there ever been a geopolitical and economic subdivision of Bosnia and Herzegovina bearing the name. </p><p>The larger of two Bosnia and Herzegovina regions, <a href="/wiki/Bosnia_(region)" title="Bosnia (region)">Bosnia</a>, is to the west and north of Herzegovina, and the border between two regions, Herzegovina and Bosnia, is unclear as it has never been strictly defined. To the south-southwest of region lies Croatian region of <a href="/wiki/Dalmatia" title="Dalmatia">Dalmatia</a>, and to the east-southeast is <a href="/wiki/Montenegro" title="Montenegro">Montenegro</a>. </p><p>The land area is <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 11,500 km<sup>2</sup> (4,400 sq mi),<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or around 23% of the total area of the present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, to <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 12,300 km<sup>2</sup> (4,700 sq mi), or around 24% of the country.<sup id="cite_ref-redah.ba_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-redah.ba-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It borders the Adriatic Sea along its 20 km (12 mi) coastline. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NERETVA_RIVER_VALLEY_NEAR_POCITELJ.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/NERETVA_RIVER_VALLEY_NEAR_POCITELJ.jpg/260px-NERETVA_RIVER_VALLEY_NEAR_POCITELJ.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/NERETVA_RIVER_VALLEY_NEAR_POCITELJ.jpg/390px-NERETVA_RIVER_VALLEY_NEAR_POCITELJ.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/NERETVA_RIVER_VALLEY_NEAR_POCITELJ.jpg/520px-NERETVA_RIVER_VALLEY_NEAR_POCITELJ.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5262" data-file-height="3595" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Neretva_river" class="mw-redirect" title="Neretva river">Neretva river</a> valley</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Park_prirode_Bile%C4%87ko_jezero_Bile%C4%87a_PPP001_42.832399,_18.437960.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Park_prirode_Bile%C4%87ko_jezero_Bile%C4%87a_PPP001_42.832399%2C_18.437960.jpg/250px-Park_prirode_Bile%C4%87ko_jezero_Bile%C4%87a_PPP001_42.832399%2C_18.437960.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Park_prirode_Bile%C4%87ko_jezero_Bile%C4%87a_PPP001_42.832399%2C_18.437960.jpg/330px-Park_prirode_Bile%C4%87ko_jezero_Bile%C4%87a_PPP001_42.832399%2C_18.437960.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Park_prirode_Bile%C4%87ko_jezero_Bile%C4%87a_PPP001_42.832399%2C_18.437960.jpg/500px-Park_prirode_Bile%C4%87ko_jezero_Bile%C4%87a_PPP001_42.832399%2C_18.437960.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bile%C4%87ko_Lake" title="Bilećko Lake">Bilećko Lake</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The terrain of Herzegovina is mostly hilly <a href="/wiki/Karst" title="Karst">karst</a> with high mountains in the north such as <a href="/wiki/%C4%8Cvrsnica" title="Čvrsnica">Čvrsnica</a> and <a href="/wiki/Prenj" title="Prenj">Prenj</a>, except for the central valley of the river <a href="/wiki/Neretva" title="Neretva">Neretva</a>. The upper reaches of the River Neretva lie in northern Herzegovina, a heavily forested area with fast-flowing rivers and high mountains. Konjic and Jablanica lie in this area. </p><p>The Neretva rises on Lebršnik Mountain, close to the <a href="/wiki/Montenegro" title="Montenegro">Montenegro</a> border, and as the river flows west, it enters Herzegovina. The entire upper catchment of the Neretva constitutes a precious ecoregion with many endemic and endangered species. The river carves through the precipitous karst terrain, providing excellent opportunities for rafting and kayaking, while the spectacular scenery of the surrounding mountains and forests is a challenging hiking terrain. The Neretva's tributaries in the upper reaches are mostly short, due to the mountainous terrain: the River Rakitnica has cut a deep canyon, its waters being one of the least explored areas in this part of Europe. The Rakitnica flows into Neretva upstream from Konjic. The Neretva then flows northwest, through Konjic. It enters the Jablanica Reservoir (<i>Jablaničko jezero</i>), one of the largest in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The lake ends near the town of Jablanica. From here on, the Neretva turns southward, continuing toward the <a href="/wiki/Adriatic_Sea" title="Adriatic Sea">Adriatic Sea</a>. With the mountains lining its shores gradually receding, the Neretva enters a valley where the city of <a href="/wiki/Mostar" title="Mostar">Mostar</a> lies. It flows under the old bridge (<i><a href="/wiki/Stari_most" class="mw-redirect" title="Stari most">Stari most</a></i>) and continues, now wider, toward the town of Čapljina and the <a href="/wiki/Neretva_Delta" title="Neretva Delta">Neretva Delta</a> in Croatia before emptying into the <a href="/wiki/Adriatic_Sea" title="Adriatic Sea">Adriatic Sea</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cities_and_towns">Cities and towns</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herzegovina&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Cities and towns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The largest city is <a href="/wiki/Mostar" title="Mostar">Mostar</a>, in the center of the region. Other larger towns include <a href="/wiki/Trebinje" title="Trebinje">Trebinje</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stolac" title="Stolac">Stolac</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C5%A0iroki_Brijeg" title="Široki Brijeg">Široki Brijeg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Posu%C5%A1je" title="Posušje">Posušje</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ljubu%C5%A1ki" title="Ljubuški">Ljubuški</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tomislavgrad" title="Tomislavgrad">Tomislavgrad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grude" title="Grude">Grude</a>, <a href="/wiki/Konjic" title="Konjic">Konjic</a>, and <a href="/wiki/%C4%8Capljina" title="Čapljina">Čapljina</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-redah.ba_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-redah.ba-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Mostar" title="Mostar">Mostar</a> is the best-known urban area and the unofficial capital. It is the only city with over 100,000 citizens. There are no other large cities in Herzegovina, though some have illustrious histories.<sup id="cite_ref-redah.ba_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-redah.ba-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Stolac" title="Stolac">Stolac</a>, for example, is perhaps Herzegovina's oldest city. Settlements date from the <a href="/wiki/Paleolithic" title="Paleolithic">Paleolithic</a> period (<a href="/wiki/Badanj_Cave" title="Badanj Cave">Badanj Cave</a>). An <a href="/wiki/Illyrian_tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Illyrian tribe">Illyrian tribe</a> lived in the city of <a href="/wiki/Daorson" title="Daorson">Daorson</a>. There were several Roman settlements alongside the <a href="/wiki/Bregava" title="Bregava">Bregava River</a> and <a href="/wiki/Medieval" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval">medieval</a> inhabitants left large stone grave monuments called <a href="/wiki/Ste%C4%87ak" title="Stećak">stećak</a> in <a href="/wiki/Radimlja" class="mw-redirect" title="Radimlja">Radimlja</a>. <a href="/wiki/Trebinje" title="Trebinje">Trebinje</a>, on the Trebišnjica River, is the southernmost city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, near the <a href="/wiki/Montenegro" title="Montenegro">Montenegro</a> border.<sup id="cite_ref-redah.ba_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-redah.ba-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/%C4%8Capljina" title="Čapljina">Čapljina</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ljubu%C5%A1ki" title="Ljubuški">Ljubuški</a> are known for their history and their rivers; the village of <a href="/wiki/Me%C4%91ugorje" class="mw-redirect" title="Međugorje">Međugorje</a> has religious importance for many Roman Catholics. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Administration">Administration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herzegovina&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Administration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the modern state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Herzegovina is divided between the countries' two major entities, <a href="/wiki/Republika_Srpska" title="Republika Srpska">Republika Srpska</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina</a>. Republika Srpska's part of Herzegovina, commonly referred to as <a href="/wiki/East_Herzegovina" title="East Herzegovina">East Herzegovina</a>, or increasingly more often "Trebinje Region", is administratively divided into municipalities of <a href="/wiki/Berkovi%C4%87i" title="Berkovići">Berkovići</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bile%C4%87a" title="Bileća">Bileća</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gacko" title="Gacko">Gacko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isto%C4%8Dni_Mostar" title="Istočni Mostar">Istočni Mostar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ljubinje" title="Ljubinje">Ljubinje</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nevesinje" title="Nevesinje">Nevesinje</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Trebinje" title="Trebinje">Trebinje</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-redah.ba_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-redah.ba-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Within the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Herzegovina is administratively divided between the cantons of <a href="/wiki/Herzegovina-Neretva_Canton" title="Herzegovina-Neretva Canton">Herzegovina-Neretva</a> and <a href="/wiki/West_Herzegovina_Canton" title="West Herzegovina Canton">West Herzegovina</a>; the two cantons only make mention of the region in relation to other locations or geographical features. Part of the region belongs to <a href="/wiki/Canton_10" title="Canton 10">Canton 10</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-redah.ba_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-redah.ba-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mezoregija_Trebinje_PP.PNG" class="mw-file-description" title="East Herzegovina or "Trebinje Region" in Republika Srpska"><img alt="East Herzegovina or "Trebinje Region" in Republika Srpska" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Mezoregija_Trebinje_PP.PNG/120px-Mezoregija_Trebinje_PP.PNG" decoding="async" width="120" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Mezoregija_Trebinje_PP.PNG/180px-Mezoregija_Trebinje_PP.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Mezoregija_Trebinje_PP.PNG/240px-Mezoregija_Trebinje_PP.PNG 2x" data-file-width="1809" data-file-height="1752" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/East_Herzegovina" title="East Herzegovina">East Herzegovina</a> or "Trebinje Region" in <a href="/wiki/Republika_Srpska" title="Republika Srpska">Republika Srpska</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Herzegovina-Neretva_in_Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Herzegovina-Neretva Canton in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina"><img alt="Herzegovina-Neretva Canton in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Herzegovina-Neretva_in_Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg/120px-Herzegovina-Neretva_in_Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Herzegovina-Neretva_in_Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg/250px-Herzegovina-Neretva_in_Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="1063" data-file-height="1014" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Herzegovina-Neretva_Canton" title="Herzegovina-Neretva Canton">Herzegovina-Neretva Canton</a> in <a href="/wiki/Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:West_Herzegovina_in_Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="West Herzegovina Canton in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina"><img alt="West Herzegovina Canton in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/West_Herzegovina_in_Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg/120px-West_Herzegovina_in_Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/West_Herzegovina_in_Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg/180px-West_Herzegovina_in_Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/West_Herzegovina_in_Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg/240px-West_Herzegovina_in_Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1063" data-file-height="1014" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/West_Herzegovina_Canton" title="West Herzegovina Canton">West Herzegovina Canton</a> in <a href="/wiki/Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Canton_10_in_Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Canton 10 in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina"><img alt="Canton 10 in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Canton_10_in_Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg/120px-Canton_10_in_Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Canton_10_in_Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg/180px-Canton_10_in_Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Canton_10_in_Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg/240px-Canton_10_in_Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1063" data-file-height="1014" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Canton_10" title="Canton 10">Canton 10</a> in <a href="/wiki/Federation_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Economic_region_of_Herzegovina.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Economic region of Herzegovina, planned since 2013"><img alt="Economic region of Herzegovina, planned since 2013" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Economic_region_of_Herzegovina.png/120px-Economic_region_of_Herzegovina.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Economic_region_of_Herzegovina.png/180px-Economic_region_of_Herzegovina.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Economic_region_of_Herzegovina.png/240px-Economic_region_of_Herzegovina.png 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1520" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Economic region of Herzegovina, planned since 2013</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Population">Population</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herzegovina&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Population"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Population_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" class="mw-redirect" title="Population of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Population of Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Herzegovina1991.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Herzegovina1991.png/250px-Herzegovina1991.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Herzegovina1991.png/330px-Herzegovina1991.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Herzegovina1991.png/500px-Herzegovina1991.png 2x" data-file-width="3507" data-file-height="2480" /></a><figcaption>Ethnic composition of Herzegovina in 1991<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The locals of Herzegovina are known by the <a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">demonym</a> <b>Herzegovinians</b> (<span title="Serbo-Croatian-language text"><i lang="sh-Latn">Hercegovci</i></span> / <span title="Serbo-Croatian-language text"><span lang="sh-Cyrl">Херцеговци</span></span>; <span style="font-size: 85%;">singular masculine:</span> <span title="Serbo-Croatian-language text"><i lang="sh-Latn">Hercegovac</i></span> / <span title="Serbo-Croatian-language text"><span lang="sh-Cyrl">Херцеговац</span></span>, <span style="font-size: 85%;">feminine:</span> <span title="Serbo-Croatian-language text"><i lang="sh-Latn">Hercegovka</i></span> / <span title="Serbo-Croatian-language text"><span lang="sh-Cyrl">Херцеговка</span></span>). While the population of Herzegovina throughout history has been ethnically mixed, the <a href="/wiki/Bosnian_War" title="Bosnian War">Bosnian War</a> in the 1990s resulted in mass <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing" title="Ethnic cleansing">ethnic cleansing</a> and large-scale displacement of peoples. The last pre-war census in 1991 recorded a population of 437,095 inhabitants. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Croats_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Croats</a> generally populate the areas closest to the Croatian border focused on <a href="/wiki/Mostar" title="Mostar">Mostar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ljubu%C5%A1ki" title="Ljubuški">Ljubuški</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C5%A0iroki_Brijeg" title="Široki Brijeg">Široki Brijeg</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C4%8Citluk" class="mw-redirect" title="Čitluk">Čitluk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grude" title="Grude">Grude</a>, <a href="/wiki/Posu%C5%A1je" title="Posušje">Posušje</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C4%8Capljina" title="Čapljina">Čapljina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neum" title="Neum">Neum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stolac" title="Stolac">Stolac</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ravno" class="mw-redirect" title="Ravno">Ravno</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Prozor-Rama" title="Prozor-Rama">Prozor-Rama</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bosniaks" title="Bosniaks">Bosniaks</a> mainly live in the areas along the <a href="/wiki/Neretva" title="Neretva">Neretva</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Mostar" title="Mostar">Mostar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Konjic" title="Konjic">Konjic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jablanica,_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Jablanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina">Jablanica</a>, to a significant extent in <a href="/wiki/Stolac" title="Stolac">Stolac</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C4%8Capljina" title="Čapljina">Čapljina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prozor-Rama" title="Prozor-Rama">Prozor-Rama</a>, and to a lesser extent in <a href="/wiki/Nevesinje" title="Nevesinje">Nevesinje</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gacko" title="Gacko">Gacko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trebinje" title="Trebinje">Trebinje</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serbs_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Serbs</a> are the majority in <a href="/wiki/East_Herzegovina" title="East Herzegovina">East Herzegovina</a>, including the municipalities of <a href="/wiki/Berkovi%C4%87i" title="Berkovići">Berkovići</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bile%C4%87a" title="Bileća">Bileća</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gacko" title="Gacko">Gacko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isto%C4%8Dni_Mostar" title="Istočni Mostar">Istočni Mostar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ljubinje" title="Ljubinje">Ljubinje</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nevesinje" title="Nevesinje">Nevesinje</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Trebinje" title="Trebinje">Trebinje</a>.</li></ul> <p>The demographic makeup of <a href="/wiki/West_Herzegovina_Canton" title="West Herzegovina Canton">West Herzegovina Canton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Herzegovina-Neretva_Canton" title="Herzegovina-Neretva Canton">Herzegovina-Neretva Canton</a> and <a href="/wiki/East_Herzegovina" title="East Herzegovina">East Herzegovina</a> according to the 2013 census is: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3">Ethnic Composition<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td>Ethnic Group </td> <td>Number </td> <td>Percentage </td></tr> <tr> <td>Croats </td> <td>212,428 </td> <td>55.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Bosniaks </td> <td>94,895 </td> <td>24.7% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Serbs </td> <td>70,952 </td> <td>18.4% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Others </td> <td>6,483 </td> <td>1.7% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Total </td> <td>384,743 </td> <td>100% </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herzegovina&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Monuments">Monuments</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herzegovina&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Monuments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The region has rich history and diverse culture, with variety of important monuments of cultural-historical heritage, such as the following cultural monuments; <a href="/wiki/Mogorjelo" title="Mogorjelo">Mogorjelo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stari_most" class="mw-redirect" title="Stari most">Stari most</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ste%C4%87ci" class="mw-redirect" title="Stećci">Stećci</a> and <a href="/wiki/Khanqah" class="mw-redirect" title="Khanqah">Tekija</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-redah.ba_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-redah.ba-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herzegovina&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina</a> guarantees <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_religion" title="Freedom of religion">freedom of religion</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina">Islam</a> (See: <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Community_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eparchy_of_Zahumlje_and_Herzegovina" title="Eparchy of Zahumlje and Herzegovina">Eparchy of Zahumlje and Herzegovina</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Serbian_Orthodox_Church" title="Serbian Orthodox Church">Serbian Orthodox Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Mostar-Duvno" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Mostar-Duvno">Roman Catholic Diocese of Mostar-Duvno</a> and <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Trebinje-Mrkan" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Trebinje-Mrkan">Roman Catholic Diocese of Trebinje-Mrkan</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herzegovina&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ganga_(music)" title="Ganga (music)">Ganga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gusle" title="Gusle">Gusle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sevdalinka" title="Sevdalinka">Sevdalinka</a></li></ul> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1275594942">@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery{width:100%!important}}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery{display:table}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-default{background:transparent;margin-top:4px}.mw-parser-output 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mod-gallery-default mod-gallery-center"><div class="title"><div>Traditional costumes of Herzegovina</div></div><div class="main"><div><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional nochecker bordered-images whitebg"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Serbian_national_costume_from_Trebinje,_end_of_XIX_c.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Serb traditional costume from Trebinje and Eastern Herzegovina"><img alt="Serb traditional costume from Trebinje and Eastern Herzegovina" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Serbian_national_costume_from_Trebinje%2C_end_of_XIX_c.jpg/120px-Serbian_national_costume_from_Trebinje%2C_end_of_XIX_c.jpg" decoding="async" width="87" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Serbian_national_costume_from_Trebinje%2C_end_of_XIX_c.jpg/250px-Serbian_national_costume_from_Trebinje%2C_end_of_XIX_c.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="772" data-file-height="1590" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Serbian_traditional_clothing" title="Serbian traditional clothing">Serb traditional costume</a> from <a href="/wiki/Trebinje" title="Trebinje">Trebinje</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Herzegovina" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Herzegovina">Eastern Herzegovina</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Narodna_no%C5%A1nja_iz_Tomislavgrada.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Folk costumes of Croatian women from Tomislavgrad Hercegovina."><img alt="Folk costumes of Croatian women from Tomislavgrad Hercegovina." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Narodna_no%C5%A1nja_iz_Tomislavgrada.jpg/164px-Narodna_no%C5%A1nja_iz_Tomislavgrada.jpg" decoding="async" width="164" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Narodna_no%C5%A1nja_iz_Tomislavgrada.jpg/246px-Narodna_no%C5%A1nja_iz_Tomislavgrada.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Narodna_no%C5%A1nja_iz_Tomislavgrada.jpg/329px-Narodna_no%C5%A1nja_iz_Tomislavgrada.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1439" data-file-height="1576" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Folk costumes of Croatian women from <a href="/wiki/Tomislavgrad" title="Tomislavgrad">Tomislavgrad</a> Hercegovina.</div> </li> </ul></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tourism">Tourism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herzegovina&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Tourism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2013, tourist cluster Herzegovina was established since Herzegovina didn't have a regional tourist organisation.<sup id="cite_ref-tourism_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tourism-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It includes members from three counties in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina: <a href="/wiki/Herzegovina-Neretva_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Herzegovina-Neretva County">Herzegovina-Neretva</a> (in which Mostar and Međugorje are also located and have the most tourist traffic), <a href="/wiki/Canton_10" title="Canton 10">Canton 10</a> (Livno, Tomislavgrad) and <a href="/wiki/West_Herzegovina_County" class="mw-redirect" title="West Herzegovina County">West Herzegovina</a> as well as part of the Republic of Srpska (such as Trebinje).<sup id="cite_ref-tourism_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tourism-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Herzegovina's natural landmarks include many features.<sup id="cite_ref-redah.ba_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-redah.ba-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>The falls of <a href="/wiki/Kravica_(waterfall)" title="Kravica (waterfall)">Kravica</a>, on the <a href="/wiki/Trebi%C5%BEat_(river)" title="Trebižat (river)">Trebižat</a> river, consist of several waterfalls near the city of Ljubuški and a popular spot for the local people to take a bath in the hot weather.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Hutovo_Blato" title="Hutovo Blato">Hutovo Blato</a> is a bird reserve, one of the most important in Europe and a gathering place for many international ornithologists.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vjetrenica" class="mw-redirect" title="Vjetrenica">Vjetrenica</a> is a cave system and a unique ecosystem. It is located near the border with Croatia, in <a href="/wiki/Popovo_Polje" title="Popovo Polje">Popovo Polje</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Ravno" class="mw-redirect" title="Ravno">Ravno</a> municipality. The cave has not been explored totally yet, but it is open to visitors. A large number of endemic cave-dwelling species have been discovered there, and new ones can be expected to be discovered still.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blagaj,_Mostar" title="Blagaj, Mostar">Blagaj</a> is also known as the origin of the <a href="/wiki/Buna_River_(Neretva)" class="mw-redirect" title="Buna River (Neretva)">Buna River</a>, inside a cave system.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neum" title="Neum">Neum</a> at the Adriatic Sea, Bosnia and Herzegovina's only coastal town, is also a tourist destination.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Me%C4%91ugorje" class="mw-redirect" title="Međugorje">Međugorje</a> has one of the most visited sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Image_gallery">Image gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herzegovina&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Image gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 190px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mostar_Old_Town_Panorama_2007.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Mostar"><img alt="Mostar" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Mostar_Old_Town_Panorama_2007.jpg/200px-Mostar_Old_Town_Panorama_2007.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Mostar_Old_Town_Panorama_2007.jpg/300px-Mostar_Old_Town_Panorama_2007.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Mostar_Old_Town_Panorama_2007.jpg/400px-Mostar_Old_Town_Panorama_2007.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2390" data-file-height="1600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Mostar" title="Mostar">Mostar</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 190px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%9A%D0%B5,_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Trebinje"><img alt="Trebinje" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%9A%D0%B5%2C_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_1.jpg/200px-%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%9A%D0%B5%2C_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="126" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%9A%D0%B5%2C_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_1.jpg/300px-%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%9A%D0%B5%2C_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_1.jpg 1.5x, 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