History

The place Zaostrog is first mentioned in the records in 1494, however its existence goes back even deeper in history as Ostrog (or Ostrok, in old-Slavic moat, fortress) was a Narentine fortress from the X century, whose remains are present even today at the Viter hill above Zaostrog. Ostrog was one of the four fortress-towns of former Pagania, as the christianised Croats called the principality of Neretva (namely, the Narentines converted to Catholicism quite late).

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