These three small parishes will later become a quintessence for emergence of Donji Kraji county, before they were reclaimed as Kotromanić's demesne, after 1416 and death of Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić.

[16] Relja Novaković also questioned why there was an additional mention of a land with own cities if they should be part of Serbia, concluding that Bosnia almost always was a separate country.

[17] Francis Dvornik stated to be, "most probable-and this is accepted by most historians of the period", initially formed as part of Croatia and later in mid-10th century was ruled by Serbia.

[24] By the late 9th and early 10th century, Bosnia was mostly Christianized by Latin priests from the Dalmatian coastal towns, though remote pockets remained unreached.

[29][30][31] In the 11-12th centuries the "Latin rite Christianity was prevalent in the west, the north and in central Bosnia", while the "Orthodox faith was predominant in the eastern districts near Serbia and the River Drina".

[32] Based on lack of information from not always reliable historical sources, which again are mainly about nearby polities and peoples, is often argued in historiography; that Northern and Northeastern Bosnia was captured by Carolingian Franks in the early 9th century and remained under their jurisdiction until 870s.

[34] Croatian king Tomislav reintegrated parts of Western and Northern Bosnia,[33][35] battling the Bulgarians in the Bosnian highlands (926).

[39] Noel Malcolm considered that a later political link to Croatia will be observed "by the Croatian title ban from the earliest times",[42] but its use before the mid-12th century in sources (CPD) is probably an anachronism.

[43] All these deductions aren't based on relevant and reliable information, as Danijel Dzino concludes: "While the 'land' of Bosnia was a political fact at the time, and the attested existence of Bosnian bishopric is sufficient evidence for this, there is nothing in the written sources that gives more about its rulers or social developments in the tenth and eleventh centuries ...

[55][56] With presumed Hungarian conquest and political influence, in the mid-12th century emerged Banate of Bosnia under its first ruler Ban Borić (fl.

This is reinforced by the Byzantine historian John Kinnamos (mid-12th century), who wrote: ...When he [Manuel I Komnenos] approached the Sava, he crossed from it to another river, by name Drina, which takes its origin somewhat higher up and divides Bosnia from the rest of Serbia.

[64][65]According to Martin Dimnik, writing for The New Cambridge Medieval History, in the 11th century land of Bosnia lived both Croats and Serbs.