1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TREBINJE, a town of Herzegovina, situated 9 m. N. E. of Ragusa, on the small river TrebinjCica, and on a branch of the railway from Metkovic to Castelnuovo, near Cattaro. Pop. (1895), about 1700. Trebmje is built in a low-lying oasis among the desolate limestone mountains, close to the Dalmatian and Montenegrin frontiers. Its half-ruined wall and citadel testify to its former strategic importance. Trebinje was built by the Slavs, probably on the site of a Roman town laid waste by the Saracens in 840. In the tenth c…
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