Komska župa, was a medieval župa in Humska zemlja, encompassing what is today village of Glavatičevo and its wider surroundings in Upper Neretva, in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Location
The center of župa was located in the area of Upper Neretva valley which gravitating village of Glavatičevo. In medieval times, Komska Župa bordered župa Neretva on the west, župa Večerić and župa Bijela on the southwest, župa Nevesinje on the south, župa Viševa on the southeast, župa Zagorje on the northeast, and on the north župa Tilava. The line that does along the Boračko lake and the canyon of the Šištica and Rakitnica rivers was western border of the župa.
History
Medieval Bosnian state
In ancient times it belonged to Podgorje, a mountainous region between Bosna, Humska zemlja, Drina and Zeta, which corresponded to zemlja in sense of size and possibly socio-political organisation and was first mentioned in the semi-mythical Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja. From the 12th century, when the oldest written mention of Koma dates, until the Ottoman destruction, it was a developed, transport, economic, military and culturally important area. The parish is named after its center, the old town of Kom, located on the hard-to-pass mountain ridge above the village of Kašić. Only ruins remain of it. Bosnian kings, Dubrovnik magnates and merchants strove for it. Kom was an important seat of the Sanković noble family from Hum. The main church in the parish was built in the 12th century next to the banks of the Neretva in the village of Razići and was more important than the one in Biskup, where the Sanković family tomb was located. There was a cemetery next to the church. Stećci were placed on the graves. In order to secure an important thoroughfare and cross roads, the town of Gradac was built, which was once a municipality. The customs house operated in Kom, as evidenced by a document from 1381 that mentions the collection of customs in this area. Trade was particularly developed, in which the people of Dubrovnik held primacy. On May 15, 1391, Duke Radič Sanković issued them a charter that they could trade in his lands, including the Koma parish. Pavao Anđelić found evidence of Dubrovnik's presence and trade in this area, when in the 1960s, while exploring the city of Kom, he found a Dubrovnik grosz. Vrela is also mentioned as a parish at the end of the 14th century, which was rare at the time, because then larger aristocratic estates were called principalities. From that time, the Koma area was called Župa, which name has remained to this day.
Kom župa was one of the main properties of the Sanković family, although their family manors were in Zaborani. The main economic branches were farming, cattle breeding and mining. There were miners at Kula, Razići and Dudle. The inhabitants were also engaged in beekeeping, hunting and fishing, and the villagers of the selected villages were given the task of supplying the Sankovići with honey, fish, game and the like.