Novljani (Serbian Cyrillic: Новљани) was a medieval Serb tribe, which became the component part of the Drobnjaci tribe in Old Herzegovina (in Montenegro). According to folklore, the Novljani was a Serb tribe that settled Bosnia at the time of the Serb settlement in the Balkans, then later crossed into the Banjani plateau in Old Herzegovina. From there, the Novljani and other Serb tribes pushed out the native population towards the Tara and source of Morača, and towards the south, Podgorica, and then settled and divided the conquered lands between themselves. This happened in olden times, surely prior to the 13th century. The Novljani received the wide land that later encompassed the tribes of Banjani and Drobnjaci. The larger part of Novljani that settled Drobnjak inhabited the whole regio