Župa Lepenica
The District of Lepenica

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, the author researches the history of the medieval district of Lepenica. This region of the medieval kingdom of Bosnia implies the basins of the Fojnica, the Lepenica and the Kreševka rivers, as well as the area of what are today the municipalities of Fojnica Kiseljak and Kreševo. In administrative sense, district of Lepenica functioned from the 13th century to 1463, when Bosnia was conquered by Ottomans. Different historical sources about this region such as written sources, archeological findings and oral tradition are all testimonies of the very rich and diverse social life in this area. Among historians, who left special contribution for studying of this area, the most important are Vladislav Skarić, Pavao Anđelić and Desanka Kovačević-Kojić. It is also important to mention the fact that any of the authors mentioned above hasn’t researched the complete district, but only certain parts of interest for their works. In that sense, this paper is important since it represents certain advancement in researching of the complete district during the medieval times in these areas.

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