Dračevica (župa)
{{Short description|Medieval municipality, Herceg Novi, Montenegro}}
{{Expand Serbian|Dračevica (župa)|date=February 2015}}
Dračevica was a župa in medieval Serbia, and later on in medieval Bosnia when the medieval Bosnian state conquered the area in 1377 from Đurađ I Balšić, who previously took it from Nikola Altomanović in 1373.{{sfn|Fine|1994|pp=384-389}}{{sfn|Ćirković|2004|p=80}} Its later center was in Novi, a town built by Tvrtko I of Bosnia.{{sfn|Stojanović|1929|p=76}} Its location is in the mountainous areas to the northwest of Boka Kotorska and the town of Herceg Novi, in modern day Montenegro.{{cite journal | url = http://hrcak.srce.hr/9883?lang=en | page = 52 | language = Croatian | title = Boka kotorska: Etnički sastav u razdoblju austrijske uprave (1814.-1918. g.) | author = Ivan Crkvenčić | author2 = Antun Schaller | journal = Croatian Geographical Bulletin | volume = 68 | number = 1 |date=June 2006}} It corresponds to the Sutorina region.
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- {{Cite book|last=Fine|first=John Van Antwerp Jr.|author-link=John Van Antwerp Fine Jr.|title=The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest|year=1994|orig-year=1987|location=Ann Arbor, Michigan|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=0472082604 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LvVbRrH1QBgC}}
- {{Cite book|last=Ćirković|first=Sima|author-link=Sima Ćirković|year=2004|title=The Serbs|location=Malden|publisher=Blackwell Publishing|isbn=9781405142915 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Wc-DWRzoeIC}}
- {{Cite book|last=Stojanović|first=Ljubomir|author-link=Ljubomir Stojanović|year=1929|title=Старе српске повеље и писма I|location=Београд|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x-wTvwEACAAJ}}
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Category:Medieval history of Montenegro
Category:Subdivisions of Serbia in the Middle Ages
Category:Historical regions in Montenegro
Category:Župas of the medieval Bosnian state
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