Trebinje

Bosnia and Herzegovina / Republika Srpska / Trebinje /
Trebinje (Cyrillic: Требиње) is the southern-most municipality and town in Republic of Srpska. It is located in southeastern Herzegovina at 42°42′32″N, 18°19′18″E, some 10km from the Adriatic Sea.
The toponym Trebinje comes from a medieval term Travunia. Trebinje was probably built by Slavs on the site of a Roman town laid waste by the Saracens in 840. In the mid-10th century Constantine Porphyrogenitus mentioned it under the name of Terbunia. It commanded the road from Ragusa to Constantinople, traversed, in 1096, by Raymond of Toulouse and his crusaders. Under the name of Tribunia or Travunja (the Trebigne of the Ragusans), it belonged to the Serbian Empire until 1355. Trebinje became a part of the expanded Medieval Bosnian state under Tvrtko I in 1373. There is a medieval tower in Gornje Police (Gornye Politse) whose construction is often attributed to Vuk Branković. The old Tvrdoš Monastery dates back to the 15th century.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebinje
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Coordinates:   42°41'48"N   18°20'35"E

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