Greek and Roman writers and especially the two stone inscriptions from Tanais tell us that the Croats from the middle of the first up to the third century A.D. lived in the region of the lower Don and were one of the Median (Sarmato-Iranian) nations in that area. During the Hunnic invasion in 375 A.D. one part of the Croats on the Don retreated northwest over the Carpathians where they called themselves White (Western) Croats with respect to the Red (Southern) Croats who remained on the Don. There the White Croats intermingled with the Slavs of the central Slavic regions and adopted their language. After the collapse of the Hunnic empire the Croats at the end of the fifth century formed their own national state, calling it White or Great Croatia. It lay between the Oder and the Dniester with its capital Hrvat on the site of present-day Cracow in southern Poland.
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White Croats
Constantine Porphyrogenitus (905-959), a Byzantine emperor and writer, mentions the state bearing the name of
White Croatia. His description shows that it occupied a wide region around its capital Krakow, in parts of Bohemia, Slovakia, and Poland. The state disappeared in 999.
St. Adalbert (Vojtech, 10th century) was a descendant of the White Croats, son of the White-Croatian duke
Slavnik. He was spreading Christianity, education and culture, and to this end founded the benedictine monastery in Brevnov in 993. Also
St. Ivan Hrvat, who died in Tetin in Bohemia in 910, was a son of White-Croatian King
Gostumil. It is interesting to add that according to some American documents from the beginning of this century there were about 100,000 immigrants to the USA born around Krakow (Poland) who declared themselves to be
Bielo-Chorvats, i.e.
White Croats by nationality. See US Senate-Reports on the Immigration commission, Dictionary of races or peoples, Washington DC, 1911, p. 40, 43, 105.
http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/et01.html#white
The origins of the Croatian name are Iranian. The earliest mention of the Croatian name as
Horovathos can be traced on two stone inscriptions in Greek language and script, dating from around the year 200, found by the Black Sea (more precisely in the seaport Tanais on the Azov sea, Krim). Both tablets are held in the Archeological museum in St Petersburg, Russia. One of the confluents to Don river near the region of Azov is called Horvatos (see [
Pascenko], p. 87). The Croatian name can be traced to different sites in Ukraine, also around Krakow in Poland, in Bohemia, and Austria, thus showing migrations of the Croatian tribes to their future homeland.
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Es handelt sich um ein VOlk das früher mal wie in der Karte eingezeichnet im Iran oder etwas nördlicher gesiedelt hat pber die Ukraine nach Südpolen gezogen ist und auf dem weg die slawische kultur aufnahm und dort ein glorreiches Reich aufbauten und anschließen auf den Balkan ziehten!
