Between Knin and the Dinara and the hinterland of Split lie a string of small Croatian counties: Petrovo polje round Drniš, Vrhrika (Vrlika) at the source of the Cetina, Cetina round Sinj, and beyond the Dinara the high fields of Hlivno (Livno) and Duvno.
In 1200 they are counties of the Croatian crown under local counts whom the sources used here do not name. The coast between the Cetina mouth and the Neretva belongs to the Kačić of Omiš (dal), and the land between the Cetina and the Neretva that Andrew took from Hum in 1198 is dal's and outside. How firmly the crown held Hlivno and Duvno against Bosnia's ban in 1200 is not pinned.
Who he is
- Name
- Not pinned for 1199-1200
- Title
- Counts (župani) of the hinterland counties
- Confidence
- low
The counties are old Croatian ones (Hlivno, Cetina and Imota are named in the 10th century); no holders are named for 1200 in the sources used here. The Nelipić of Cetina belong to the 14th century.
Overlord
The king, through the ban
What it holds
- Petrovo polje (Drniš).
- Vrhrika (Vrlika).
- Cetina (Sinj).
- Hlivno (Livno) and Duvno (Tomislavgrad).
How it was acquired
Old Croatian counties under the crown.
Allies and rivals
Split and Trogir below (dal); the Kačić on the coast; Bosnia beyond the Dinara.
How things stand that morning
Under the crown; counts not named.
Wealth
Flocks and the summer pastures of the Dinara and the Kamešnica; the roads from Split inland through Klis.
Military
Kindred retinues; Klis (Ban Benedict) guards the pass to Split.
Threats
- The unsettled Hum frontier.
- Bosnia's ban beyond the Dinara.
Places of note
- Sinj (Cetina): Centre of the Cetina field.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: County names are old; holders and bounds in 1200 are not recorded in the sources used.
On the map: Rough fields; the Bosnian edge is a guess.
Primary sources for Croatia and Dalmatia
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- History of the bishops of Salona and Split, by Thomas the Archdeacon, Thomas of Split (about 1266). Written two generations later by a Split churchman born about 1200. Read online
- History of the doges of Venice (about 1229, with a continuation). The earliest surviving Venetian narrative close to the events. Read online
- The Deeds of the Hungarians, by the Anonymous Notary of King Béla, Anonymus (P. magister) (about 1200 to 1210, the date disputed). Not a record of events but a picture of the kingdom's nobility and geography as a courtier of about 1200 wished to see it: the clans and their lands, the castles and counties, the Vlachs, Cumans and other peoples of the Carpathian basin, all projected back onto the conquest. Read online
- The Registers of Pope Innocent III for 1199 to 1201, Innocent III and the papal chancery (22 February 1199 to 21 February 1201). The pope's outgoing letters for the year, in his chancery's own copy, touching nearly every realm in the atlas. Read online
- Charters of the kingdom of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia, volume 2, 1101 to 1200 (documents of 1101 to 1200, edited 1904). The Croatian and Dalmatian charters to 1200: the acts of Duke Andrew as lord of Croatia and Dalmatia (1197 to 1204), the Hungarian kings' grants, the Templars and the bishops of Zagreb, Split, Zadar and Trogir, the communal statutes of the coastal towns, and the papal letters of 1200 to Emeric about Ban Kulin of Bosnia and heresy. Read online
- Hungarian royal charters: Fejér's Codex diplomaticus and Szentpétery's critical calendar of the Árpád kings (documents of the 11th to 13th centuries; Fejér published 1829 to 1844, Szentpétery vol. 1 in 1923). The documentary base for Hungary in 1200: King Emeric's grants to Pannonhalma, the bishops, the Templars and Hospitallers, Duke Andrew's acts in Croatia and Dalmatia, and the papal letters of 1200 to Emeric about his brother's rebellion and about heresy in Bosnia. Read online
- Documents on the older commercial and political history of the Republic of Venice, part 1, 814 to 1205 (documents of 814 to 1205, edited 1856). Venice's treaties and privileges in full text. Read online
Sources and studies
- Croatia in personal union with Hungary (English Wikipedia)
- Twelve noble tribes of Croatia (English Wikipedia)
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