Named after the 11th-century Bulgarian boyar Krakra of Pernik, this fortress played a key role in defending the First Bulgarian Empire against Byzantine attacks. Built after 809 AD in what is now the city of Pernik, it covered 50 decares with an 800-meter-long, 2-meter-thick wall following the plateau's natural curves.
Krakra successfully defended the fortress during two sieges by Emperor Basil II in 1004 and 1016, the latter lasting 88 days and earning the nearby valley the name “The Bloody.” The fortress was abandoned after the Third Crusade passed nearby in the late 12th century. Today, visitors can see ruins of walls, residential buildings, and churches, including the site where a rare silver seal of Tsar Petar I was discovered — marking his visit en route to see St. Ivan Rilski in the Rila Mountains.
Radimlja is a stećak (monumental medieval tombstones, that lie scattered across Bosnia and Herzegovina) necropolis located near Stolac. The necropolis is one of the most valuable monuments of the mediaeval period in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The majority of its stećak tombstones date from the 1480s through the 16th century, as evidenced by the epitaph on one of the tombstones. This was the period when the family Miloradović-Stjepanović from genus Hrabren lived in the settlement located on near hill Ošanići. At the time the location was known as Batnoge, and the creation of the necropolis coincides with the rise of this noble family.
The necropolis includes 133 stećci. When the Čapljina-Stolac road was built during the Austro-Hungarian period in 1882, it ran through the necropolis and destroyed at least 15-20 tombstones.