King Tomislav

King Tomislav was a Croatian King in the medieval times. He ruled Croatia from 925 to 928 and he died in 928. He was crowned in Bosnia, now Bosnia Herzegovina.

=About Tomislav=

King Tomislav, claiming of the coastal cities of Dalmatia, was a good King, even though no-one knows much about him. The geographical extent of Tomislav's kingdom is not fully known. British writer Marcus Tanner suggested that it covered most of modern Croatia, Bosnia, and the coastline of Montenegro. Many Croatian scholars argued that the kingdom covered the whole region south of the Drava river to the Drina and Neretva rivers north of Dubrovnik.

=Reign=

Tomislav also defeated the Hungarians in war and were forced them across the Drava River. Tomislav annexed a part of Pannonian Croatia to his Dalmatia. This included the rivers of  Drava, Sava and Kupa.

At the peak of his reign,  The king could have gathered a  military force composed out of 100,000 infantrymen and 60,000 horsemen and a sizable fleet of 80 large ships and 100 smaller vessels These figures are largely disputed due to the historical period, historians  argue that the numbers are a clear overexaggeration and an overemphasis that should be interpreted differently.

=Legacy=

Tomislav is celebrated finder of the Croatian State. In Zagreb, there is a square dedicated to Tomislav.