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Early historical mentions of other Serb-sounding names that some researchers are trying to connect with the Serb people. In the same book where he mentioned people named Serboi, Claudius Ptolemy also mentioned city named Serbinum in Pannonia. [6] Ancient geographer Strabo mentioned that river Xanthos in Lycia was formerly named Sirbis. [7]
The Principality of Serbia (Modern Serbian: Кнежевина Србија / Kneževina Srbija) was one of the early medieval states of the Serbs, located in the western regions of Southeastern Europe. It existed from the 8th century up to c. 969–971 and was ruled by the Vlastimirović dynasty.
The same entry mentions "the Serbs, who are said to hold a great/large part of Dalmatia" (ad Sorabos, quae natio magnam Dalmatiae partem obtinere dicitur), [16] [17] [18] but according to John (Jr.) Fine, it was hard to find Serbs in this area since the Byzantine sources were limited to the southern coast, also it is possible that among other ...
Eastern Europe in 3rd to 4th centuries CE, with archeological cultures identified as Baltic-speaking in purple, Slavic-speaking in light brown, and Finno-Ugric-speaking in green During the Migration Period in 5th and 6th centuries CE, the area of archeological cultures identified as Baltic and Slavic became more fragmented.
By the 6th century, Slavs occupied the area west of the Oder formerly inhabited by Germanic peoples. [7] The Sorbs are first mentioned in the 6th or 7th century. In their languages, the other Slavs call them the "Lusatian Serbs", and the Sorbs call the Serbs "the south Sorbs". [8] The name "Lusatia" was originally applied only to Lower Lusatia. [7]
Old Serbia and Macedonia, map by Jovan Cvijić ca. 1915. Old Serbia already encompasses the whole of Kosovo, Sandjak and most of North Macedonia and per its author was populated by Serbs. Ethnographic maps showing the Macedonian region and Old Serbia were part of a wider conflict involving similar competing maps of the region that was played ...
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The Kingdom of Serbia (Serbian: Краљевина Србија / Kraljevina Srbija), or the Serbian Kingdom (Serbian: Српско краљевство / Srpsko kraljevstvo), was a medieval Serbian kingdom in Southern Europe comprising most of what is today Serbia (excluding Vojvodina), Kosovo, and Montenegro, as well as southeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, parts of coastal Croatia south of ...