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This shows that even at that early date the Turks found allies in the renegade Slaves. The Ragusan Senate tried to mediate between Sandalj and George so as to strengthen Hungary, and arranged a meeting between the former and his rival’s wife, but the attempted conciliation failed. Apparently, too, some of the Slavonic lordlings tried to draw Ragusa into their intrigues with the Turks, and in 1399 Feris (PFerid), Governor of Svecanj, visited the town as Turkish envoy, but nothing came of the negotiations.1
    The kingdom of Bosnia was, as we have seen, subject to constant incursions on the part of the Turks, whom it was incapable of resisting, for under the reign of King Dabisa and Queen Helena Gruba the Yojvods had risen to power once more, and had become almost independent. Of these the most important were Sandalj Hranic, lord of Hlum, of whom we have already spoken; Hrvoje, Duke of Spalato; and Paul Radinovic. Sandalj ruled over a great part of Hlum as far as the Drina. Hrvoje, who has been described as the “ Bosnian Warwick,” owing to the number of princes he deposed and set up, ruled over middle Dalmatia, a large part of Bosnia, including the town of Jajce, and some districts of Hlum, including Livno. Paul Radinovic was lord of Trebinje, part of Canali, and other lands as far as Praca. His sons, Peter and Radosav, took the name of Paulovic. Queen Helena lost her throne owing to a rebellion in >39^8 or 1399, and was succeeded by Stephen Ostoja, probably a natural son of Stephen Tvrtko.2 Ostoja had to depend for his authority on the goodwill of his magnates, but his reign 1 Gelcich, Balia, 205-206.	2 Klaic, 274.
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