Dabar (župa)

Dabar (Serbian Cyrillic: Дабар) was a župa (county) part of the medieval principality of Zahumlje (later "Hum"). It was first mentioned in the 10th century, in the De Administrando Imperio, as one of five inhabited cities of Zahumlje, a Serb principality.^[1] It was called Dobriskik. Dabar was situated around the Dabar field (Dabarsko polje), and bordered Dubrava in the west, Nevesinje in the north, Fatnica in the east and Popovo in the south-west. The word dabar means "beaver", thus, the etymology has been connected to beavers. There was also another region with the same name in the Lim river valley that had belonged to the Serbian kingdom until 1373 when Bosnian Ban Tvrtko I occupied it.

References

1. SANU 1954, p. 7.

Sources

• Ђуро Тошић (2005). Средњовјековна хумска жупа Дабар. Istorijski institut. ISBN 978-86-7743-053-5.
• Radmilo Pekić (2005). Жупа Дабар у средњем вијеку. Bileća: Српско просвијетно и културно друштво Просвјета. ISBN 978-99938-90-00-3.
• Ljubo Mihić (1975). Ljubinje sa okolinom. Dragan Srnic.
• SANU (1954). "Жупа Дабар". Srpski etnografski zbornik 67. Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti.