According to assumptions, the old town of Počitelj was built by the Bosnian king Stjepan Tvrtko I at the end of the 14th century. The town was morphologically adapted to the terrain on a rocky cliff above the bank of the river Neretva. In written sources, it is first mentioned in 1444, in the charters of King Alfonso V and Frederick III. In the period from 1463 to 1471, a Hungarian installation was located in Počitelj. In 1471, after a brief siege, the city became part of the Ottoman Empire, of which it would remain until 1878. In the period 1782-1879 it was the seat of the Cadillac, and in the period 1713-1835. the seat of the Počitelj captaincy. After the establishment of Austro-Hungarian rule in BiH in 1878, Počitelj lost its strategic importance and suddenly collapsed.
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