Quick Facts
- In full:
- Tvrtko Kotromanić
- Born:
- c. 1338
- Died:
- 1391
- Title / Office:
- king (1377-1391), Bosnia and Herzegovina
- House / Dynasty:
- Kotromanić dynasty
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Tvrtko I
ruler of Bosnia
Also known as: Tvrtko Kotromanić
Tvrtko I (born c. 1338—died 1391) was probably the greatest ruler of Bosnia, ruling as Bosnian ban (provincial lord, subservient to the king of Hungary) from 1353 and king of the Serbs and Bosnia from 1377.
In 1363 Tvrtko commenced war with King Louis I of Hungary, but afterward Louis helped him regain power following a revolution in Bosnia. At Bileća in 1388 Tvrtko’s forces halted an Ottoman Turkish invasion. In 1390 he extended his power into Croatia and to the Dalmatian islands in the Adriatic Sea.
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