Mastan Bubanjić

History The Drežnica valley of the river Drežanka, a tributary of the Neretva, is 21 km long, and it cut between Čabulja in the south and Čvrsnica in the north. It is densely populated in a series of hamlets, which are generally called Donja and Gornja Drežnica.

The area around the river Drežanka belonged to the early medieval župa of Večenika – Večerić, which bordered the župas of Rama and Duvno. With the disintegration of the župa of Večenika, Broćno was first formed, and then Blato. The rest of the territory was still called Večenike (Večenike), although other administrative units were separated from it until the beginning of the 15th century, namely, Planina, Polje and Drežnica. Although small in terms of the number of inhabitants and the area it occupies, Drežnica had a certain administrative-political autarchy, precisely because of its geographical isolation.

Since 1325, the area has been part of the Bosnian Banate, which was ruled by the Kotromanić family. From 1357, together with western Hum, the area came under the Hungarian king Louis I control as a dowry of his wife Elizabeta, daughter of Stjepan II Kotromanić. After the death of King Louis, the entire area returned to the medieval Bosnian state, where it remained until 1463. It was declared a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina by KONS, and with its surroundings forms a cultural landscape. Va ime oca i s(i)na i s(ve)tago duha. Ase dvor' voevode M(a)sna i negoviju s(i)nu Radosl(a)va i Mirosl(a)va. Se pisa rab' b(o)ži i svetago D(i)mitrija u dni g(ospo)d(i)na krala ugarskoga Loiša i g(ospo)d(i)na bana bosan'skoga Tvr'tka. Tko bi to potr'l' da e proklet' oc(e)m' i s(i)nom' i s(ve)tim' d(u)hom'. Translation in English: In the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit. Here is the court of duke Mastan and his sons Radoslav and Miroslav. This was written by the servant of God and Saint Demetrius in the days of Lord King Lois of Hungary and Lord Ban Tvrtko of Bosnia. Whoever would wipe it away, may he be cursed by the father and the son and the holy spirit.

Literatura

Pavao Anđelić, Srednjovjekovna župa Večenike-Večerić, Glasnik Zemaljskog muzeja u Sarajevu, arheologija, Sarajevo, 1976, 259 -279.