Krajina Belojević was the župan

Zupan

Żupan was a long garment, always lined, worn by almost all males of the noble social class in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, typical male attire from the beginning of the 16th to half of the 18th century, still surviving as a part of the Polishnational dress.- Derivation :The name żupan has...

of Travunia

Travunia

Travunia was a medieval region, administrative unit and principality, which was part of Medieval Serbia , and in its last years, the Bosnian Kingdom . The county became hereditary in a number of noble houses, often kin to the ruling dynasty. The region came under Ottoman rule in 1482...

, an administrative unit of the Principality of Serbia, in the 9th century. In 847/848, not long after the three-year Bulgarian–Serbian War (839-842) in which Prince Vlastimir of Serbia (r. ca. 836-850) defeated the Bulgar army sent by Presian I

Presian I of Bulgaria

Presian was the Khan of Bulgaria from 836–852. He ruled during an extensive expansion in Macedonia.-Origin:The composite picture of the Byzantine sources indicates that Presian I was the son of Zvinica , who was a son of Omurtag...

, Krajina married the daughter of Prince Vlastimir and gained a raising in rank, and was entitled the županate centered around Trebinje

Trebinje

Trebinje is the southernmost municipality and town in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is administratively part of the Republika Srpska entity and is located in southeastern Herzegovina, some from the Adriatic Sea....

 (a province in the "maritime", Pomorje

Pomorje

Pomorje or Primorje is a term used in historical contexts to describe one of the two geographical divisions that constituted Serbia in the Middle Ages...

, part of modern Herzegovina

Herzegovina

Herzegovina is the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina. While there is no official border distinguishing it from the Bosnian region, it is generally accepted that the borders of the region are Croatia to the west, Montenegro to the south, the canton boundaries of the Herzegovina-Neretva...

), which had earlier been held by Krajina's father, the local lord Beloje

Beloje of Trebinje

Beloje was the Župan of Travunia in the early 9th century, a fief of the Serbian Principality under Prince Vlastimir . He may have had the position under Vlastimir's predecessors; Radoslav or Prosigoj...

. His father-in-law was the eponymous founder of the Vlastimirović dynasty, which would rule Serbia until 969. Krajina continued the office under Mutimir

Mutimir of Serbia

Mutimir of Serbia was Prince of the Serbs from ca 850 until 891. He defeated the Bulgar Army, allied himself with the Byzantine Emperor and ruled the First Serbian Principality when the Christianization of the Serbs took place and the Eparchy of Ras was established.He was the eldest son of Knez...

 (r. 850-891). With the unnamed daughter of Vlastimir, Krajina had a son that would succeed him, Hvalimir . Hvalimir in turn had a son, Čučimir , who was the last known Belojević in charge of Travunia, as it Serbia fell to the Byzantine Empire, in ca. 969

Catepanate of Serbia

Catepanate of Ras or Serbia was a Byzantine province established between 971–976, during the rule of John Tzimiskes...

.

See also

• Drosaico
  Drosaico
  Drosaico was a South Slavic župan of the Narentines in ca. 836 to after 839. The Narentines were a fierce tribe living off piracy. The Narentines were at the time subordinate to the Serbian Principality....
  
   and Ljudislav
  Ljudislav
  Ljudislav was a South Slavic ruler of the Narentines in 840. He waged a successful naval battle against the Republic of Venice.-Life:Ljudislav was possibly a co-ruler or successor of Drosaico....
  
   (fl. 836-840), župan
  Zupan
  Żupan was a long garment, always lined, worn by almost all males of the noble social class in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, typical male attire from the beginning of the 16th to half of the 18th century, still surviving as a part of the Polishnational dress.- Derivation :The name żupan has...
  
  s of Narentia who defeated Venetian doge
  Doge of Venice
  The Doge of Venice , often mistranslated Duke was the chief magistrate and leader of the Most Serene Republic of Venice for over a thousand years. Doges of Venice were elected for life by the city-state's aristocracy. Commonly the person selected as Doge was the shrewdest elder in the city...
  
  , Pietro Tradonico
  Pietro Tradonico
  Pietro Tradonico , an Istrian by birth, was the Doge of Venice from 836 to 864. He was, according to tradition, the thirteenth doge, though historically he is only the eleventh. His election broke the power of the Participazio. He was illiterate, and forced to sign all state documents with the...
  
   (r. 836–864), and hundreds of his men in 839/840

Sources

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  Constantine VII
  Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos or Porphyrogenitus, "the Purple-born" was the fourth Emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, reigning from 913 to 959...
  
  , De Administrando Imperio
  De Administrando Imperio
  De Administrando Imperio is the Latin title of a Greek work written by the 10th-century Eastern Roman Emperor Constantine VII. The Greek title of the work is...
  
  , edited by Gy. Moravcsik and translated by R. J. H. Jenkins, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington D. C., 1993
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