Pomorje


Pomorje or Primorje, also known as Littoral Serbia and Seaside, is a term used in historical contexts to designate a geographical region of several territories of Upper Dalmatia and its hinterland, belonging to the present-day Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, settled by Slavs.

History

At the beginning of the 9th century, according to 822 entry of Einhard's Royal Frankish Annals, Serbs were ruling over "the greater part of Dalmatia". The state of maritime regions in the Early Middle Ages was described in the De Administrando Imperio, a work by Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII dedicated to his son, Romanus II, as a domestic and foreign policy manual.
Pomorje included most of the coastal regions of modern-day Montenegro, the southern regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, notably most of Herzegovina region, and a southeastern part of region Dalmatia in Croatia.

Use in royal titles

The term was used in royal and religious titles both by Bosnian and Serbian monarchs and their heirs.