Zachlumia

Zahumlje (Cyrillic Захумље, also Zachlumien, latin Zachulmia, Zachlumia ) or Hum (Latin Chulmia, Chelmania ) is a historical region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, between the city of Dubrovnik and Neretva River including the island of Peljesac, inland up to about the present Mostar reaching.

In the Middle Ages it was a südslawisches principality.

History

At the time of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in the 10th century prevailed in Zahumlje a Prince Michael, who descended from the non-Christian Litziki that at the river Visla ( Vistula ) settled. This report, which runs like a red thread through the literature is, in the research but now deprecated. Medieval writers translated " Serbs " namely often with the Slavs as a whole the same as Slavic ancestral strain or umbrella term for all Slavs.

In the 10th century Knez Mihajlo Višević independently it was in the 11th century by the State Zeta -dependent. After 1183 it became affiliated with the Zeta Nemanjic Empire. To 1323, the local feudal nobility became self-employed under the Branojević. The Branojević plundered the border areas of Dubrovnik, the first implored the intervention of the Nemanjic, and when they do not respond, turned to Bosnia. The Bosnian Prince Stjepan II Kotromanić conquered Zahumlje 1326. Efforts Stefan Dusan, to affiliate Zahumlje his state again, had no lasting success, and Zahumlje remained in Bosnia. 1333 the southern part of Zahumlje with the center Ston and Peljesac the island was ceded to the tribute Ragusanern. The rest remained in Bosnia and came in 1435 under the rule of Stjepan Vukčić Kosačas, who in 1448 assumed the title of duke. Zahumlje then went on in Herzegovina.