Editing Voivode (section)

=== Bosnian grand dukes ===
{{Further|Grand Duke of Bosnia}}
Grand Duke of Bosnia ({{langx|sh|Veliki Vojvoda Bosanski}}; {{langx|la|Bosne supremus voivoda / Sicut supremus voivoda 
regni Bosniae}})<ref name="hrcak.srce.hr-Sulejmanagić-2012-Novac Hrvoja Vukčića-pp.54–85">{{cite journal |last1=Sulejmanagić |first1=Amer |date=30 November 2012 |title=Novac Hrvoja Vukčića Hrvatinića |trans-title=Coins minted by Duke Hrvoja Vukčića Hrvatinića |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=280466 |journal=Numizmatičke Vijesti |language=sh |volume=54 |issue=65 |pages=54–85 |issn=0546-9422 |access-date=8 May 2020}}</ref><ref name="Thalloczy-Jagić-Wickhoff-1899-Missale">{{cite web |author1=Vatroslav Jagić |author-link1=Vatroslav Jagić |author2=Lajos Thalloczy |author-link2=Lajos Thalloczy |author3=Franz Wickhoff |author-link3=Franz Wickhoff |date=1899 |title=Missale Glagoliticum Hervoiae ducis Spalatensis |url=https://archive.org/stream/missaleglagolit00unkngoog/missaleglagolit00unkngoog_djvu.txt |access-date=10 May 2020 |website=archive.org |language=la}}</ref> was a court title in the [[Kingdom of Bosnia]], bestowed by the king to highest military commanders, usually reserved for most influential and most capable among highest Bosnian nobility who already held title of vojvoda.<ref name="Miller-Essays-Latin-Orient">{{cite book |last1=Miller |first1=William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0wpEBgAAQBAJ&q=At+this+time+Hrvoje%2C+Grand+Duke+of+Bosnia&pg=PA481 |title=Essays on the Latin Orient |date=2014 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781107455535 |page=481 |language=en |access-date=16 February 2019}}</ref><ref name="Grand+Duke-search-google-book-by-F.R.Preveden">{{cite book |last1=Preveden |first1=Francis Ralph |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1KJnAAAAMAAJ&q=Grand+Duke |title=A history of the Croatian people from their arrival on the shores of the Adriatic to the present day: with some account of the Gothic, Roman, Greek, Illyrian, and prehistoric periods of the ancient Illyricum and Pannonia |date=1962 |publisher=Philosophical Library |pages=98–100 |language=en |access-date=16 February 2019}}</ref><ref name="Grand-Duke-Poetics-Slavdom-Zlatar">{{cite book |last1=Zlatar |first1=Zdenko |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ltRWy32dG7oC&q=Grand+Duke+of+Bosnia&pg=PA544 |title=The Poetics of Slavdom: The Mythopoeic Foundations of Yugoslavia |date=2007 |publisher=Peter Lang |isbn=9780820481357 |page=544 |language=en |access-date=16 February 2019}}</ref><ref name="Grand-Duke-Hval Codex-Cvetković-hrcak.srce.hr">{{cite journal |last1=Cvetković |first1=Branislav |date=19 December 2014 |title=The Header to the Ten Commandments in the Hval Codex: a Contribution to the Semantics of Medieval Illumination |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?id_clanak_jezik=193125&show=clanak |journal=Ars Adriatica |language=hr, en |issue=4 |pages=155–172 |doi=10.15291/ars.493 |access-date=16 February 2019 |via=[[Hrčak]] |doi-access=free}}</ref> To interpret it as an office post rather than a court rank could be even more accurate.<ref name="Kurtovic">{{cite book |last1=Kurtović |first1=Esad |url=http://www.iis.unsa.ba/pdf/kurtovic_sandalj_hranic_kosaca.pdf |title=Veliki vojvoda bosanski Sandalj Hranić Kosača |date=2009 |publisher=Institut za istoriju Sarajevo |isbn=978-9958-649-01-1 |edition=Historijske monografije; knj. 4 |language=bs |format=.pdf |access-date=10 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305184319/http://www.iis.unsa.ba/pdf/kurtovic_sandalj_hranic_kosaca.pdf |archive-date=5 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Fine">{{cite book |last1=Fine |first1=John Van Antwerp |title=The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest |date=1994 |publisher=University of Michigan Press}}</ref> Unlike usage in Western Europe, Central Europe, or in various Slavic lands from Central to North-East Europe, where analogy between ''grand duke'' and ''grand prince'' was significant, with both titles corresponding to sovereign lower than king but higher than duke. In Bosnia, the title ''grand duke'' corresponded more to the Byzantine military title '''''[[megas doux]]'''''.<ref name="Fine" /><ref name="Filipović">{{cite journal |last1=Filipović |first1=Emir O. |date=2010 |title=Viteske svecanosti u Budimu 1412. godine i ucesce bosanskih predstavnika (Festivities held in Buda in 1412 and the participation of Bosnian magnates) |url=https://www.academia.edu/238694 |format=.pdf/.html |journal=Spomenica Akademika Marka Šunjića (1927–1998), Filozofski Fakultet U Sarajevu |language=bs, en |publisher=Filozofski fakultet u Sarajevu |access-date=10 January 2016}}</ref> It is possible to register some similarities with equivalent titles in neighboring Slavic lands, such as Serbia; however, in neighboring countries, the title ''duke'', in Slavic ''vojvoda'', also had military significance, but in that sense "grand duke" was specifically, even exclusively, Bosnian title.<ref name="Kurtovic" />