Beloje of Trebinje

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Beloje
Count (Župan) of Travunia
Period	before 842
Predecessor	Unknown
Successor	Krajina
Issue Krajina, Župan of Travunia
Noble family	Belojević
Born	Trebinje
Died	9th century

Beloje (Serbian: Белоје^[a]) was the Župan (Lord or Count^[1]) of Travunia in the early 9th century,^[2] a fief of the Serbian Principality under Prince Vlastimir (r. 836–851). He may have had the position under Vlastimir's predecessors; Radoslav or Prosigoj (fl. 819). Beloje is the first known ruler, or in any case, holder of office in Travunia (a province centered in Trebinje, modern Bosnia and Herzegovina), mentioned in the De Administrando Imperio, by Emperor Constantine VII (945–959).

Sometime after the Bulgaro-Serb War (839–842), Beloje's son Krajina marries the daughter of Vlastimir and receives Travunia as an appanage to rule in his name. Beloje's descendants are entitled the rule of Travunia. There are no more mentions of the family after the Byzantine annexation of Serbia in 969–976.

References

^ Name: The first attestation of his name is the Greek Belaes (Βελάης), in Serbian this is rendered as Beloje (Белоје^[3]), although it can be rendered as Veloje (Велоје^[4]). His name is most likely derived from the Serbian word for white, Бело/Belo.

↑ 1
↑ Venance Grumel, La chronologie, Paris 1958, 390 p.
↑ (Божидар Ферјанчић), „Византијски извори за историју народа Југославије II“ (фототипско издање оригинала из 1959), Београд, 2007. ISBN 978-86-83883-08-0 (стр. 62)
↑ Група аутора, „Историја српског народа I“ , Београд, 1981. (стр. 148)

Sources

Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Administrando Imperio, 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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