[223] Geçcha or Geçecha in the Ragusan documents, mentioned as early as 1275.
[224] Now called Plevlje (Turkish, Tašlydža) in the Sandžak of Novibazar. This stream, which flows through the town, is still called the Breznica, and a neighbouring monastery Vrhobreznica = high Breznica.
[225] In the sixteenth century castle and monastery were still in good repair, and the latter was inhabited by fifty monks, and contained the body of St. Saba, the patron saint of the Southern Slaves (see Zen’s Diary in Starine x. of South-Slav. Acad.). The body was removed and burnt by the Turks in 1595, and the building fell into ruins by the end of the eighteenth century. Priepolje is now the southernmost point garrisoned by Austria in the Sandžak of Novibazar.
[226] Mentioned by the Lib. Ref. in 1322.
[227] For this route see Benedetto Ramberti, Libri. Tre delle cosi dei Turchi, lib. i.
[228] There is still a village of that name.
[229] Mostar did not exist in the Middle Ages. The ruins of Blagaj still form an imposing mass.
[230] The seat of feudal family of the Pavlovići in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
[231] Srebro = silver in Servian.
[232] Slav. S. Dimitri, Dimitrovica, or Mitrovica.