Vučina
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| Vučina | |
|---|---|
| Ethnicity | Serb |
| Occupation | Nobility, military leader |
| Title | župan |
| Religion | Eastern Christianity |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |
 Serbian Grand Principality |
| Years of service | fl. 1150-1151 |
| Battles/wars | |
Vučina (Serbian Cyrillic: Bучинa) was Serbian provincial lord (župan) and military commander in the service of Uroš II Vukanović (r. ca. 1145 - 1162), of the Serbian Grand Principality.
In 1150 he was one of the military commanders in the army of Uroš II that fought the Byzantine Empire, the combined Serbo-Hungarian army suffered defeat at the Battle of Tara, where he and his fellow nobleman Grdeša (of Trebinje) where captured.[1] It is assumed the prisoners were taken to Sredets (Sofia), but are released in 1151.[2]
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References
- Joannes Cinnamus (1976), Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus, Columbia University Press, ISBN 978-0-231-04080-8
- Konstantin Jireček, Vatroslav Jagić (1912), Staat und Gesellschaft im mittelalterlichen Serbien: Studien zur Kulturgeschichte des 13.-15. Jahrhunderts, Volumes 1-4, Zentralantiquariat der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (German)
- Rade Mihaljčić (1982), Namentragende Steininschriften in Jugoslawien vom Ende des 7. bis zur Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts, F. Steiner, ISBN 978-3-515-03873-7 (German)
- Vizantološki institut SANU (2007), „Vizantijski izvori za istoriju naroda Jugoslavije IV“ (fototipsko izdanje originala iz 1971), Beograd. ISBN 978-86-83883-10-3 (Serbian)
- Vizantološki institut SANU (1963), "Zbornik radova, Book 8, Part 1", Naučno delo (Serbian)
- Radojičić Đorđe, Sp. (1931) Grdeša trebinjski župan XII veka. Prilozi za KJIF (Serbian)
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