Grand Župan

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Grand Župan, or Chief Župan, is the English rendering of some Southern Slavonic titles which relate etymologically to župan (originally a pater familias, later the tribal chief of a unit called župa) like a Russian Grand Prince to a Knyaz (rendered as Prince or Duke).

[edit] Serbia and Montenegro

In the Middle Ages, Serbian Veliki Župan ruled the present-day Serbia and Montenegro. The most notable Grand Župan was Stevan Nemanja, founder of the Serbian mediaeval Nemanjić dynasty.

[edit] Slavonia (Pannonian Croatia)

Veliki Župan was the ruler style since Slavonian independence was achieved until the union with Croatia:

• 626 - 635 Kosences (Kosjenc)
• c.795 Vojnomir
• 810 - 823 Ljudevit
• 823 - 838 Ratimir
• 880 - 896 Braslav

[edit] Sources and references

• [ WorldStatesmen- see each present country]