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Zahumlje, also known as the Land of Hum, was a medieval principality located in today's Herzegovina.
Zahumlje, at various times, bordered the lands of Narenta/Pagania to the west and southwest, Travunja to the east and southeast, and probably Bosnia to the north.
Porphyrogenitus descibes them in De Administrando Imperio as a Serb tribe which settled in present Hercegovina around the Hum mountain region at the start of the 6th century. Zahumlje entered into confederations with the Serb princes of Raska early on.
Croat academics have pointed out that Zahumlje could have been Croat, but this is not generally accepted since these claims rely on Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja, which has been discredited as unreliable and full of errors. It is now accepted in most academic circles outside of Croatia that Travunia/Travunja Bosnia / Bosna and Pagania / Paganija and Zeta / Duklja were settled with Serb tribes, as it states in De Administrando Imperio.
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