Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on foot during the insurrection, August and September 1875Evans, Arthur, Sir
History
Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on foot during the insurrection, August and September 1875
Evans, Arthur, Sir
Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Description and travel; Bosnia and Herzegovina -- History -- Rebellion of 1875
The Turks after devastating the country, destroying Varch Bosna near
the site of Serajevo and penetrating into the district of Sala in lower
Bosnia, refused this time to content themselves with plunder, and
established their first Sandjakate in Bosnia. Hervoja, seeing himself
thrown over by the Turks, who found him no longer useful as a cat’s-paw,
and deserted by his own adherents, shut himself up in his family castle
at Cattaro, and worn with vexation, perhaps remorse, died the same
summer. The two Kings, Tvartko and Sigismund, succeeded on their return
in gaining a victory over the Turks, slaying the Sandjak Ikach, and
freeing Bosnia for a while from the occupation of the Infidel. But the
anarchy within continued, and in 1430 culminated in the spectacle of
three rival princes, each of them claiming to be King of Bosnia! In 1435
the death of his two rivals left Tvartko III. once more sole king; but
shortly after that date the part of his dominions which answers to the
modern Herzegovina separates itself from the rest of Bosnia, and forms
for a while an independent principality.
The County of Chelm, variously designated as the Banat of Zachlumje and
the land of Humska, had been originally incorporated in the Banat of
Bosnia by the Ban Stephen[94] in 1326. We have seen it exchanged for
Primorie with the King of Hungary, and re-annexed by the first King of
Bosnia, who granted it as a fief to his brave general Vlatko Hranić. His
grandson, who from his birthplace Cosac, was known as Stephen Cosača, or
Cosaccia,[95] took advantage of the weakness of Tvartko III. to transfer
the immediate suzerainty of his county to the Emperor Frederick IV., who
in 1440 created him Duke, or, as his Sclavonic subjects who had borrowed
the German word expressed it, _Herzega_, of St. Sava.[96] This, and the
further title of ‘Keeper of St. Sava’s Sepulchre,’ he derived from the
tomb of the patron saint of Serbia in his monastery of Mileševo.
The Herzegovina, or Duchy, as this country now begins to be called,[97]
included, besides the old county of Chelm, the coastland district known
as Primorie, and extended from the borders of Rascia to the neighbourhood
of Zara.[98] Stephen Cosaccia fixed as the seat of his government
the important point where the old Roman bridge still spans the river
Narenta, and the City of Mostar still looks back to Radivoj Gost, his
_Curopalata_ or ‘Mayor of the Palace,’ as its founder.[99]
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