TREBINJE

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TREBINJE , a town of Herzegovina, situated 9 M. N. E. of mercial importance, the remoteness of its position prevented it

Ragusa

RAGUSA
RAGUSA (Serbo-Croatian Dubrovnik)

, on the small river Trebinj'eica, and on a branch of from being much known to fame either in the Hellenic or the early the railway from Metkovic to Castelnuovo, near Cattaro. Pop. medieval period; its greatness

dates

DATES

from the time of the fourth (1895), about 1700. Trebinje is built in a low-lying

oasis

OASIS (Gr. &toss, the name given by Herodotus to the fertile spots in the Libyan desert: it probably represents an Egyptian word, cf. Coptic ouahe, ouih, to dwell, from which the Egyptian Arabic sod is derived)

among crusade (1204), when the Byzantine Empire was dismembered the desolate limestone mountains, close to the Dalmatian and and its

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

occupied by the Latins. During the confusion Montenegrin frontiers. Its half-ruined

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

and citadel testify that followed that event Alexius Comnenus escaped into

Asia

ASIA

, to its former strategic importance. Trebinje was built by the and, having collected an army of Iberian mercenaries, entered Slays, probably on the site of a Roman town laid waste by the

Trebizond

TREBIZOND (Gr. Trapezus)

, where he was acknowledged as the legitimate sove-Saracens in 84o. In the tenth century Constantine Porphyro- reign, and assumed the title of Grand Comnenus. Though only genitus mentions it as Terbunia. It commanded the road from twenty-two years of age, Alexius was a man of ability and

Ragusa

RAGUSA
RAGUSA (Serbo-Croatian Dubrovnik)

Constantinople

CONSTANTINOPLE
CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

, traversed, in 1096, by Raymond of resolute will, and he succeeded without difficulty in making Toulouse and his crusaders. Under the name of Tribunia or himself master of the greater part of the southern

coast

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

Travunja (the Trebigne of the Ragusans), it belonged to the of the Black Sea. The empire thus founded continued to Servian Empire until 1355. In 1483 it was captured by the exist until 1461, when the city was taken by Mahommed II. Turks. The cause of this long duration, and at the same time the

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