Cvilin

Cvilin
Cvilin
Village
	Cvilin
	Coordinates: 43°34′31″N 18°48′6″E / 43.57528°N 18.80167°E
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity	Republika Srpska
Municipality	Foča
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Cvilin (Serbian Cyrillic: Цвилин) is a village in the municipality of Foča, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[1] The Chronicle of the Priest of Dioclea recorded that, at the time of Serbian Knez Časlav Klonimirović (cca. 927/28 - cca. 950), a Hungarian nobleman Kish had plundered Bosnia. The Priest of Dioclea wrote that King Časlav assembled an army and confronted Kish in the Drina area, close to the river. The battle took place in the place of Civelino - i.e. the present-day Cvilin. Kish was defeated and killed in the battle.

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^ Official results from the book: Ethnic composition of Bosnia-Herzegovina population, by municipalities and settlements, 1991. census, Zavod za statistiku Bosne i Hercegovine - Bilten no.234, Sarajevo 1991.

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[1] Official results from the book: Ethnic composition of Bosnia-Herzegovina population, by municipalities and settlements, 1991. census, Zavod za statistiku Bosne i Hercegovine - Bilten no.234, Sarajevo 1991.

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