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There's a mention of Slavonia among Tvrtko's conquests, but this is incoherent with other descriptions. While the medieval meaning of Slavonia was much larger than today, it was largely towards the west, not towards the south. Does someone have access to the full text of Fine (1994) page 398? @ Surtsicna added this back in 2016. -- Joy ( talk) 18:48, 3 April 2024 (UTC) reply

In the meantime, @ Norden1990 posted some links in the discussion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bosnian-Hungarian War (1387-1390) where I read some machine translations that mention how flags of Naples were raised in the Syrmian and Slavonian counties, but I still didn't find clear explanations of where Tvrtko may have invaded to his north, rather mostly to his southwest. -- Joy ( talk) 13:26, 6 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Google Books preview showed me pages 397 and 398 now and it says:

Soon Bosnian and Croatian troops were campaigning together on behalf of Naples in Croatia in the region around Zagreb. And by the end of the year, 1387, the Bosnians and their Croatian allies were in control of most of Croatia and Slavonia. The Horvats, who had sought refuge with Tvrtko, were now able to make their return to Croatia.

John of Paližna had been named Ban of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia in 1385 by the ill-fated Charles of Naples. Tvrtko recognized John's title and appointed him to be his deputy for various Dalmatian towns that submitted to him.

Some of the towns seem to have been unhappy with the change, preferring as their suzerain the more distant Hungary to near-by Bosnia. Tvrtko never tried to force his rule upon either Zadar or Dubrovnik. Thus between 1387 and 1389 Tvrtko made himself overlord over a large part of Slavonia, Dalmatia and Croatia south of Velebit—including Knin, Ostrovica, and Klis. On behalf of Naples his troops even passed through Slavonia into Srem. Though these actions were carried out in the name of Naples, it is evident that Tvrtko and his own vassal, Hrvoje, with whom he was closely associated in this venture, were acting for themselves and it was they who held the actual authority in much of this vast area. In 1390 Tvrtko began to call himself King of Croatia and Dalmatia.

There aren't any internal references on this page so it's hard to tell how precise this is intended to be, but made himself overlord doesn't necessarily mean having practical control throughout the 2-3 year period, it's more like a claim...

I also looked for sources about Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić at this time and found this in the Croatian Biographical Lexicon's article about that [1]:

Na poč. 1387. pošao je s bratom Vukom na čelu bosanske vojske u pomoć svrgnutom zagrebačkom biskupu Pavlu Horvatu i dvojici pobunjenih hrvatskih velikaša, banu Ivanišu Horvatu i vranskom prioru Ivanu Paližni. Usput su opljačkali posjede Žigmundovih pristaša Zrinskih. Potkraj 1388. Hrvoje je s bratom Vojislavom bio zauzet događajima u Dalmaciji [...]

So we can confirm that the focus was on the south already by the next year. This article is attributed to Pejo Ćošković.

Likewise when reading about Paul Horvat [2]:

Kraljica Marija u lipnju je oslobođena, a 14. IX. 1387. posjede Horvatâ predala je Gorjanskima.

This is likewise possibly just a claim, but it indicates that the Luxembourg factions didn't sit still about the issue of who controls Slavonia even that same year. This article is attributed to Josip Lučić [3] and Zrinka Nikolić [4].

And in turn reading about Nikola II Gorjanski [5]:

Kao jedan od najvjernijih pristaša kraljice Marije i njezina muža kralja Žigmunda, Nikola je 1387. bio jedan od vojvoda u pohodu kraljevske vojske koja je pobunjene pristaše braće Horvat potisnula preko Drave i tamo ih u nekoliko bitaka pobijedila. Nikola je potom Ivaniša Horvata opkolio u Požegi i prisilio na predaju, ali je ovaj – dok je Nikola pošao u Mačvu da je otme Srbima – uspio iz zarobljeništva pobjeći u Bosnu svojemu savezniku kralju Tvrtku. Nikoli su se te godine predali zagrebački Gradec i Kaptol, a za zasluge ga je Žigmund imenovao mačvanskim banom. Nikola je 1387–89. uspješno suzbijao provale Ivaniša Horvata preko Save u istočnu Slavoniju, a uspio je svojega tasta, kneza Lazara, nagovoriti da prestane podupirati Horvata.

So the Horvats had advanced across the Drava in '87, but were pushed back, and in turn defeated in both Zagreb and Požega, presumably the same year. Further advances are also described as successfully repelled. This article is attributed to Mladen Švab [ hr.

Note that HBL articles are dated 2002, which is presumably just the date of the latest editorial change, as Lučić had died in 1994 and Švab had died in 2000.

So it doesn't look like there's consensus that any meaning of Slavonia was an area conventionally under control of the Anjou factions throughout these three years, rather it was at the very least contested by the Luxembourg factions throughout the period. -- Joy ( talk) 13:36, 17 June 2024 (UTC) reply

I noticed we use File:Kraljevina Bosna 1391.png, while File:Medieval Bosnian State Expansion.svg exists with Latin labels and vector graphics, as well as not being kind of cut off at the western and eastern edges. The only substantial difference in the pictures seems to be not attributing the upper valley of the Una and Unac to Tvrtko in the west, but it does attribute Konavle to him in the south. Which is more accurate? -- Joy ( talk) 06:46, 18 June 2024 (UTC) reply

The article in Croatian Encyclopedia about Tvrtko [6] says:

Početkom 1377. preoteo je Đurađu Balšiću Trebinje, Konavle i Dračevicu, čime je pod svoju vlast okupio znatan dio područja koje su nekoć držali Nemanjići.

That seems pretty clear. Their article about the Nelipčić family [7] mentions "Srb, Ostrog i Unac" as properties of them and in turn Louis I of Hungary in 1345:

Preslaba da mu se odupre, Vladislava se, nakon kraćeg otpora, odlučila izmiriti s kraljem, kojemu je osim Knina vratila i Počitelj, Srb, Ostrog i Unac (1345).

It's really unclear from the rest of the text what might have happened there 42 years after that. -- Joy ( talk) 06:56, 18 June 2024 (UTC) reply

[8] shows Santasa99 added this in 2021, saying this map is better sourced (per Vego and Ćorović), and is much nicely rendered

While looking at it, I also noticed is that the PNG map actually has incoherent source maps, because they differ between one another - the 1935 Ćorović map shows Pelješac as well as the entire area between Dubrovnik and Ston under Tvrtko, but the 1957 Vego map does not; likewise they seem to differ for the coastal part of Konavle. -- Joy ( talk) 20:48, 18 June 2024 (UTC) reply

Because the 1957 Vego source map referenced File:Bosna.svg doesn't show any toponyms in the Una valley, I'd say we should disregard that difference and go back to the other SVG map. -- Joy ( talk) 20:51, 18 June 2024 (UTC) reply

Joy, hello. The svg map is completely unsourced map, and I may add quite unusual (I am not surprised it is unsourced, actually, because I have never seen such borders in books or research papers). But the most important thing is that Vego's map accurately presents what is referred to as "the greatest extent", doesn't matter for how long that greatest extent was reality on the ground, etc. Historical Atlas of Bosnia and Herzegovina actually confirms Vego's rendering of "the greatest extent" borders. Personally, I really think that svg map is inaccurate and un-sourcable - it's more a synthesis, in our wiki sense of the word, by combining different moments in time with different spatial extent(s). ౪ Santa ౪ ^99° 00:25, 19 June 2024 (UTC) reply

Since it's in a much better format, can we just extract the useful parts of it for 1391 and lose these extraneous parts?

File:Kraljevina Bosna 1391.png doesn't match Vego's map, heck it doesn't even match File:Bosna.svg, it's in a worse format, and it doesn't have useful toponymy to put the map in context. -- Joy ( talk) 06:57, 19 June 2024 (UTC) reply