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It was noticed in the historical literature a long time ago that Dabar was often usual name of
places and wider regions, for example: from Dabar, part of Serbia (de Xadbra partium
Sclavonie) the medieval upa around Priboj on the Lim, with a seat of diocese of Dabar in the
St Nicholas monastery in Banja and from Dabar, part of Bosnia (de Dabar partium Bosne),
from Dabar, kingdom of Bosnia (de Dabar Regni Bossina) and from Dabar, region of
Sandaljevo (de Isadbra contrato Sandalis) certainly the upa in Hum land that is coincided, to a
great extant, with todays field of Dabar.
The first mention of Dabar as one of nine upas in the land of Hum is met in the middle of XII
century in the Chronicle of the Priest of Dioclea. Observing from the history-geographical view, it
was situated between the upa of Hum, Popovo in southwest and Dubrava in west, while from
north it was closed by Trusina near Dabar (Drussina prope Dabar) and by Nevesinje, the upa
that was then in the structure of Podgorje, and eastern border was coincided with western border
of Fatnica, the upa of Travunija, which included deep and flat valley on the north - eastern part
of Rudina. After this survey of its situation, between mentioned upas of Podgorje, Travunija and
Hum, the borders of Dabar, the medieval upa that included the same named field of Dabar with
the settlements at the edges of the same field, are gradually represented. The most southern
border began under north slopes of mountain Siznica, going towards northwest, it circled
mountain Kuba in a large bend and appeared under the famous village of Dabar, Prisedolj.
Below Prisedolj, the western border of the upa continued to north and, near Podgred and Osoj of
Dabar, came to a hill above Potkom. From there the northern border of the upa came gently
down along the villages of Dabar: Ljuti Do, Kljenjak, Trebesin and Dragljevo and, along Hatelj,
reached Sunie. There it was replaced by eastern border that was near Vrijeka and Bijeljani
villages, as well as between Prisoje from the side of Dabar and Divina from the side of Fatnica,
came down into Plani. From Plani the border suddenly turned to the left striking the village Kuti,
and then, under Ostrvice and Novi emerged near the famous village of Fatnica, Vranjska,
circling, it from northern side and coming down the lowest slopes of Sitnica mountain, where from
we started to follow the south border of the upa Dabar.
In the historical sources Dabar is not only mentioned as a upa but as a place as well. The
attempts of some previous authors to find the famous town of Porphyrogenitus, Dobroskik from
the mid. 10th century, into the village of Dabar, Suzina (P. obaji) and in the town of Kotur near
Stolac (M. Vego) did not give expected results since there was no more famous center there that
would be known from the later sources as a successor of its glorious tradition (S. irkovi).
Better situation is not with village Dabar (villa Dabar) either, which Turkish travel - recorder E.
Chelebi saw it two centuries later as a place long and wide an hour walk each on a small field of
about 15 houses covered with stone tiles with vineyards and gardens, and H. Hasandedi, an
orientalist from Mostar, tried to locate it on the basis of Chelebis statement in village Berkovii,
with place Trebesin a mile or two north - eastern from Porphyrogenitus town of Dabar.

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Tibor ivkovi
FORGING UNITY
The South Slavs between East and West: 550-1150
PREFACE
During the last ten years of my scholarly work, I published a number of papers regarding the
history of South Slavs. The majority of these papers were printed in Serbian, which is not a
language used by academic communities elsewhere. It seems that foreign authors, who deal with
similar topics (i.e. South Slavs, Byzantium, Bulgaria), as well as the same chronological span (i.e.
the period form the 7th to the 12th century), are generally not informed about the results of Serbian,
Bulgarian or Greek researchers. Because of this, numerous monographs of Western scholars,
published recently, lack many ideas and solutions already achieved by and presented in the
works of their colleagues, who write in the Serbian, Russian, Bulgarian or Greek language. For
the benefit of historiography, and in order to offer our foreign colleagues an opportunity to read
and encounter such ideas, I collected and translated 18 papers into English, which propose new
solutions and represent a fresh approach to the history of South Slavs and Byzantium. All of
these papers were published previously, but here they are slightly improved and partially rewritten
to integrate the text into a compact and cohesive volume. Presented in this way, the book will be
of some interest to the scientific community, but it will also appeal to a wider reading audience.
Regarding the composition of this book, the chapters are given in chronological order, from the
earliest contacts of the Slavs with Byzantium, to the first decades of the 12 th century. Each
chapter contains a reference specifying the publication where it originally appeared for the first
time. The list of abbreviations is given at the beginning, while transliteration of non-English names
and titles is given according to the normative in English literature and historiography.
Being at the crossroad of West and East, the South Slavs were at the receiving end of many
various influences, which shaped their political, social and religious life. Thus it seemed
appropriate to title the book Forging Unity, since the effects of these influences had not always
been taken willingly, but rather imposed through complex relations between the Slav principalities
and kingdoms, and their more powerful neighbours Byzantium, Venice, or Hungary.
Therefore, it appears suitable to create a book which would shed light on these complex
connections, and describe the events that took place during the course of some six centuries of
South Slav history (7th to 12th centuries).




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