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Seven slavic tribes during the foundation of the First Bulgarian Empire in 681. The Seven Slavic tribes (Bulgarian: Седемте славянски племена, romanized: Sedemte slavyanski plemena), or the Seven clans (Bulgarian: Седемте рода, romanized: Sedemte roda) were a union of Slavic tribes in the Danubian Plain, that was established around the middle of the 7th ...
The Seven Slavic tribes are also hypothesized to be Antes hailing from the lands of modern Ukraine, but missing records of their tribal names makes the hypothesis unverifiable. Therefore, it has been suggested that the ancestors of medieval Bosnians, Serbs and Croatians were the Sclaveni , wereas the progenitors of the Bulgarian Slavs were the ...
The Seven Slavic tribes were relocated to the west to protect the frontier with the Avar Khaganate, while the Severi were resettled in the eastern Balkan Mountains to guard the passes to the Byzantine Empire. [37] The number of Asparuh's Bulgars is difficult to estimate.
The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages.Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Northern Asia, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, [1] [2] and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the ...
According to Theophanes, the Bulgars subjugated the so-called Seven Slavic tribes, of which the Severians were re-settled from the pass of Beregaba or Veregava, most likely the Rish Pass of the Balkan Mountains, to the East, while the other six tribes to the Southern and Western regions as far the boundary with the Pannonian Avars. [95]
Nestor the Chronicler; Slavic pagans. Christianization of the Slavs took place from the 7th to 12th centuries, with a pagan reaction in Poland in the 1030s and conversion of the Polabian Slavs by the 1180s (see Wendish Crusade).
The Melingoi or Milingoi (Greek: Μηλιγγοί) were a Slavic tribe that settled in the Peloponnese in southern Greece during the Middle Ages. In the early decades of the 7th century, Slavic tribes ( Sclaveni ) settled throughout the Balkans following the collapse of the Byzantine Empire 's defense of the Danube frontier with some groups ...
Opolans (Polish: Opolanie; Czech: Opolané; German: Opolanen; Latin: Opolini) were the West Slavic tribe that lived in the region of upper Odra. Their main settlement was Opole. They were mentioned in the Bavarian Geographer, under the Latin name Opolini, as one of the seven tribes living in Silesia (Silesian tribes).