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TREBINJE

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 232 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TREBINJE , a See also:

town of Herzegovina, situated 9 M. N. E. of mercial importance, the remoteness of its position prevented it See also:Ragusa, on the small See also:river Trebinj'eica, and on a See also:branch of from being much known to fame either in the Hellenic or the See also:early the railway from Metkovic to Castelnuovo, near See also:Cattaro. Pop. See also:medieval See also:period; its greatness See also:dates from the See also:time of the See also:fourth (1895), about 1700. Trebinje is built in a See also:low-lying See also:oasis among crusade (1204), when the See also:Byzantine See also:Empire was dismembered the desolate See also:limestone mountains, See also:close to the Dalmatian and and its See also:capital occupied by the Latins. During the confusion Montenegrin frontiers. Its See also:half-ruined See also:wall and citadel testify that followed that event Alexius See also:Comnenus escaped into See also:Asia, to its former strategic importance. Trebinje was built by the and, having collected an See also:army of Iberian mercenaries, entered Slays, probably on the site of a See also:Roman town laid See also:waste by the See also:Trebizond, where he was acknowledged as the legitimate sove-See also:Saracens in 84o. In the tenth See also:century See also:Constantine Porphyro- reign, and assumed the See also:title of See also:Grand Comnenus. Though only genitus mentions it as Terbunia. It commanded the road from twenty-two years of See also:age, Alexius was a See also:man of ability and Ragusa to See also:Constantinople, traversed, in 1096, by See also:Raymond of resolute will, and he succeeded without difficulty in making See also:Toulouse and his crusaders. Under the name of Tribunia or himself See also:master of the greater See also:part of the See also:southern See also:coast Travunja (the Trebigne of the Ragusans), it belonged to the of the See also:Black See also:Sea.

The empire thus founded continued to Servian Empire until 1355. In 1483 it was captured by the exist until 1461, when the See also:

city was taken by Mahommed II. See also:Turks.

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