Vrhbosna (Serbian Cyrillic: Врхбосна, pronounced [ʋř̩x.bo.sna]) was the medieval name of a small region in today's central Bosnia and Herzegovina, centered on an eponymous settlement (župa) that would later become part of the city of Sarajevo.
[1][2][3][4] The meaning of the name of this Slavic župa is "the peak of Bosnia".
[3] The existence of a significant individual settlement of Vrhbosna was recorded in the 14th and 15th centuries.
[1][2][3][4] Vrhbosna persisted shortly after the Ottoman conquest of Bosnia in the name of local vilayet, but soon the name went out of use.
[3][4] In 1550, a Venetian traveller Caterino Zeno was the first westerner to use the term Sarraglio (Italianized form of Sarajevo) instead of Vrhbosna to describe the place.