It is situated in the northwestern highlands of Montenegro, bordering Bosnia and Herzegovina.
[1] It was earlier mentioned in the Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja (c. 1300–10[2]) as one of ten counties in the province of Podgorje,[3] and in the St. Stephen Chrysobull of Serbian king Stefan Milutin (r.
Under Prince Nicholas I of Montenegro and the Congress of Berlin recognition, in 1878 the Piva together with the Serb Herzegovinian tribes of Banjani, Nikšići, Šaranci, Drobnjaci and a large number of the Rudinjani formed the Old Herzegovina region of the new Montenegrin state.
The tribe has since the arrest of Radovan Karadžić, the wartime Bosnian Serb president and member of the neighbourly Drobnjak tribe of Petnjica (from which the Serbian language reformer Vuk Karadžić also descends), petitioned for Tadić's excommunication from the tribe because of Karadžić's arrest.
The arrest is seen as directly bad behavior against the Serbian people and from the Piva against the Drobnjak tribe, who had never before had any problems, and it is because of this Tadić's actions have been condemned.