TREBINJE  , a

town of Herzegovina, situated 9 M . N . E. of mercial importance, the remoteness of its position prevented it Ragusa, 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 from the time of the fourth (1895), about 1700 . Trebinje is built in a low-lying oasis among crusade (1204), when the Byzantine Empire was dismembered the desolate limestone mountains, close to the Dalmatian and and its capital occupied by the Latins . During the confusion Montenegrin frontiers . Its half-ruined wall and citadel testify that followed that event Alexius Comnenus escaped into 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, 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 to Constantinople, 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 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 .