Trebinje
Trebinje (
Serbian Cyrillic:
Требиње) is the
southern-most city in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, in southeastern
Herzegovina at . It is part of the
Republika Srpska entity.
The toponym Trebinje comes from a medieval term
Travunia.
Trebinje was built by the Slavs, probably on the site of a
Roman town laid waste by the
Saracens in
840. In the tenth century
Constantine Porphyrogenitus mentions it as
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. In
1483 it was captured by the
Turks.
The town lies on the small Trebišnjica river, and there are several
mills along the river, as well as an
Ottoman stone bridge spanning it (Arslanagić bridge).
There is a new
Orthodox church in the town, whilst nearby is what is now an
Episcopal church dating back from the
15th century nearby (
Tvrdoš Orthodox). Trebinje is also home to the small
Catholic Cathedral of the Birth of
Mary. The town largely escaped damage during the war, but some
Muslim architecture was destroyed. The Mosque of Trebinje was rebuilt by the returned Muslim community and inaugurated in July 2005.
Trebinje is the seat of the
Catholic Bishopric of Trebinje-Mrkan.
The local
football club is
FK Leotar Trebinje.
In the
1991 census, there were 30,879 inhabitants of the Trebinje municipality: 21,387
Serbs (69.2%), 5,542
Bosniaks (17.9%), 1,625
Yugoslavs (5.3%), 1,226
Croats (3.9%), 1,099 others (3.7%). The town of Trebinje itself had 3,562 residents (53% Serbs, 35% Bosniaks, 8% Yugoslavs, 2% Croats, 2% others).
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