The Slavs came to the Balkans during
Justinian I rule (527–565), when eventually up to 100,000 Slavs raided
Thessalonica. The Western Balkans was settled with
Sclaveni (Sklavenoi), the east with
Antes.
[2] In 577 some 100,000 Slavs poured into
Thrace and
Illyricum, pillaging cities and settling down.
[3]
According to 10th-century
De Administrando Imperio,
Serbs settled a part of present day Bosnia and Herzegovina during the rule of Byzantine Emperor
Heraclius (r. 610-641).
[4] Their leader, the
Unknown Archont, was given lands that would subsequently evolve into principalities;
Pagania,
Zahumlje,
Travunija,
Duklja and
Rascia.
[4] Bosnia, centered at river Bosona, was mentioned as one of the regions that were then under Serbian rule, in casu under Prince
Časlav. Bosona had two inhabited cities;
Kotor and
Desnik.
[4] Herzegovina was part of Zahumlje and Travunija;
[4] present-day
Canton 10,
West Herzegovina,
Herzegovina-Neretva and
Trebinje Region.
The regions were constantly changing hands, as the Slavic nobles fought each other for the supreme rule.
Prince
Višeslav, who managed to unite several provinces and tribes,
[5] directly ruled the hereditary lands (
Županias) of
Neretva,
Tara,
Piva,
Lim.
[6][7] Višeslav ruled during
Charlemagne (fl. 768-814)).
[8]
According to the
Royal Frankish Annals (822),
Pannonian Duke
Ljudevit fled his seat in
Sisak to the
Serbs (during the rule of
Radoslav or his son
Prosigoj) who controlled a great part of
Dalmatia ("Sorabos, quae natio magnam Dalmatiae partem obtinere dicitur").
[9][10]
Prince
Vlastimir (r. 831-851), after defeating the Bulgars in the three-year
Bulgarian–Serbian Wars (839-842), continued to expand to the west, taking southeast
Bosnia and northeast
Herzegovina (
Hum).
[11][12] Vlastimir ensured further unity by marrying his daughter to
Krajina Belojević, who gained the title of Prince of Trebinje.
[4][12]
During the rule of
Mutimir (r. 851-891), the Serbs were Christianized. Serbia became an important Byzantine ally; The fleets of Zahumlje, Travunia and
Konavli (Serbian
Pomorje) were sent to fight the
Saracens who attacked the town of
Ragusa (Dubrovnik) in 869, on the immediate request of
Basil I, who was asked by the Ragusians for help.
[13]
Prince
Petar (r. 892-917), defeated the local Tišemir of Bosnia, annexing the valley of Bosna.
[14] He continues taking the
Neretva, annexing the
Narentines, where he seems to have come into conflict with
Michael, a Bulgarian vassal ruling Zahumlje (with Travunia and Duklja).
[15]
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