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Tubolja (or Potubolja) is a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The origin of the name of the village is unclear. The name sounds like an Illyrian one, but it could have Croatian roots. Dictionary Croatian or Serbian language (St. XVIII, 1962-1966., Pp. 843). Antique explains that the word "tubolja" means "big rock or beams," and that the name of the village comes from the same words: it is a village which is located next to the rocks, or beams. Perhaps it indicates the name Potubolje: under rocks, under Stijn?
The village is preserved in the springs has not cited, even by Bakula 1867. This does not means it was empty, but the historical wellspring of state under a new name. So it Šilobadović 1668. called the Abyss, izvješćujući as the village burned Dalmatian Uskoks and enslaved him.
Although obviously been inhabited, it is not mentioned village in the Abyss Episcopal reports from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Probably it was included in Kovac. In recent times Tubolju are settled immigrants from Herzegovina and Dalmatia. Among the largest families are Ivanković and Kurevija. In the village there is a more arheolpških lokalitema pointing to long-term population of the area - west of the village on a hilly elevation is Illyrian tumuli Plandovišće.
Northeast of Kurevijinih house, on the Mašete, which is in possession of the Ivanković family, there is a prehistoric tumulus. East of the house of Ivan Glavas, there is a grave with a tomb decorated with a cross. On the meadow of the Ivanković family, zavnoj stones, preserved in a tomb.
In the early 20th century, Ante Radić, the father of Croatian ethnology, visited the village, as described in Proceedings of national life and običaje. The population is increasingly moving elsewhere, to Tomislavgrad, Croatia and other European countries.