Webcam Lubushka. Castle of Stepan Vuksic Kosac, paragliding field
Ljubuski (Ljubuški) is a town, the center of the community of the same name in Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in the historical region of Herzegovina.
Administratively, it is part of the West Herzegovina canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The town was first mentioned in 1444. The name Ljubuska comes from the ancient Slavic name of Libusa, the wife of the Ruler of Herzegovina Duke Stepan.
Stjepan Vukčić Kosaca, Grand Duke of Bosnia and Duke of St. Sava, was at one time the most powerful nobleman in the Kingdom of Bosnia. A member of the noble family Kosaca, he became Grand Duke of Bosnia after the death of his uncle Sandal. He refused to recognize the accession of King Tomas, plunging the kingdom into civil war. At this time he seized the opportunity to call himself duke and, seeking help, first joined the Ottoman Empire, then Aragon and again the Ottoman Empire. Peace was restored by the marriage of King Tomáš and Stephen's daughter Catarina, but it did not last long. However, with the death of King Tomáš and the ascension of his son and heir, Stepan Tomášević, to the Bosnian throne, peace was finally achieved for the kingdom.
It was the title of Stjepan Herceg of St. Sava, from which the Ottoman Sanjak of Herzegovina derived its name, founded after 1482, when the possessions of the Kosac family came under Ottoman rule and were part of the Bosnian Eyalet. The name has been kept ever since and is used for the present-day southernmost region of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The city of Herceg Novi in modern Montenegro, founded by Tvrtko I of Bosnia first as Saint Stefan and then as Novi (literally New), also known as Castelnuovo in Italian, would later become the residence of Stepan and renamed, adding his title Duke to the name Novi.
