The Duvno field with the city of Županjac was in the possession of Croatian kings till the 2nd half of 13th century when it became the possession of noble family Šubić, and in 1325 to Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia. That area remained in the possession of Kotromanić family until the Ottoman conquests.
Ottoman Empire
Hamdija Kreševljaković mentions borough under name Duvno at the end of XVII century and also states that this borough became a qadaa in first years of XVIII century. In middle of XVII century Evliya Çelebi, a famous Turkish travel writer, stated that Tomislavgrad "looks like a paradise garden, it is part of sanjak of Klis and has four hundreds of houses and one imposing mosque, many masjids, one inn, one hamam and ten shops."
During the Ottoman rule, Tomislavgrad was known as Sedijedid. It was named under Turkish word meaning fort.
Tomislavgrad remained under Ottoman rule until 1878 when Austria-Hungary occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina after the Berlin Congress.
Austria-Hungary
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
In 1925, Duvno was renamed Tomislavgrad by King Aleksandar Karađorđević.
World War II
Communist Yugoslavia
After Tomislavgrad was conquered by partisans it was renamed into Duvno. Like most of the West Herzegovina cities, Tomislavgrad was labeled as pro-Ustaše and pro-fascistregion.Therefore it has been demonized by the officials of SFRY. The investments were very poor in it. That caused huge poverty and lot of people emigrated to Zagreb and Dalmatia, as well as to Germany as gastarbeiter.Even today lot of people have close relatives settled elsewhere who come here on holidays.
