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The Slavs being a tribal society at the time of their arrival to the Balkans in the 7th century most župe were organised according to tribes and each tribe had its own chieftain called the župan.
The Croats have preserved the term župa as the name for local clerical units ( parishes) and slightly modified županija as the name for their regional government (the counties of Croatia).