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Banate of Bosnia
Origins
Bosnia appears as a distinct land in the 10th century. In 1154 Ban Borić is the first named ruler, a vassal of Hungary. Ban Kulin (c. 1180–1204) made it effectively independent, and his 1189 trade charter to Ragusa is one of the oldest documents in the Serbian-Croatian language.
Rule and society
The ban ruled with a council of nobles from seats around Visoko. The Bosnian Church, an independent church condemned by Rome as heretical, coexisted with Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Under Stephen II Kotromanić (1322–1353) Bosnia annexed Zachlumia and the land up to the Cetina, and Saxon miners opened silver and lead mines at Srebrenica and Fojnica, trading through Ragusa.
Decline and legacy
In 1377 Ban Tvrtko I had himself crowned king at Mile, claiming the Serbian crown as well, and the banate became the Kingdom of Bosnia.
Lineage
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- Banate of Bosnia was a vassal of Kingdom of Hungary (1000-1301)1154 CE – 1301 CE
- Banate of Bosnia was a vassal of Kingdom of Hungary (1301-1526)1301 CE – 1377 CE
- Zachlumia was conquered by Banate of Bosnia1326 CE
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Banate of Bosnia. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/banate-of-bosnia
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