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THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE
SLAVONIC SETTLEMENTS
IN DALMATIA, CROATIA, AND SERBIA GAYLAMOUNT
BERK!IIRRARY U.C.BINDER RFNFRAIPAMPHLET
TEXTS FOR STUDENTS. No. 18
GENERAL EDITORS: Caroline A. Skeel. D.Lit.
J. ;
H. White, D.D. P. Whitney. D.D., D.C.L.
J. ; J.
THE EARLY HISTORY OFTHE
SLAVONIC SETTLEMENTS
IN DALMATIA, CROATIA, & SERBIA
CONSTANTINE PORPHYROGENNETOS
De Administrando Imperio, Chapters 29-36
EDITED BY
J. B. BURY, F.B.A.
Regius Professor Modernof History and Fellow of King's College in the
University of Cambridge
LONDON
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
NEW YORK: THE MACM1U.AN COMPANY
1920 GAYLAMOUNT
PAMPHLET BINDER « | RPNFRA | | IRRARY U.C. BERf
PREFACE
the Slavonic settle-We have no contemporary records of
in of the Balkan peninsula—Serbia,ments the north-west
Croatia, Dalmatia—in the seventh century. The earliest
eight chapters of theaccount we have is contained in
Imperio, which wastreatise known as De Administrando
Emperor Constantine VII. (Porphyro-compiled by the
gennetos) during the years A.D. 948-952. This account,
notices inoccasionally supplemented by incidental
tells us all we know ofVenetian and Frankish annals,
the history those countries for about three centuries.of
theSome twelve years ago I published a study of
andcomposition and sources of Constantine's treatise,
that, relating the Serbians andshowed of the chapters to
Croats, cc. 29 and 31-36 were put together in 948-9,
and c. 30 is an insertion of later date—951 or 952.
since thenThis memoir was translated into Croatian, and
a Yugo-Slav scholar, Dr. Manojlovi6, has analyzed the
work in greater detail.
The text of the eight chapters is here printed in full,
with events in Souththe omission of a digression on
Italy in c. which is not relevant to the subject.29,
The student will note the confusion of the Slavs with
the Avars in 29 the of the two Saracenc. ;
sieges of Ragusa, and the author's evident ignorance of
the date of the Saracen capture of Bari ; the conflicting
statements 30 and baptismin cc. 31 as to the date of the
of the Croatians. He will observe, too, that the tradition,
V
"35G VI I'KEFACE
accented by the author, that the Slavs first occupied the
lands of Croatia, Dalmatia, and Serbia, in the reign of
Horaclius, misrepresents facts. The Slavs had been
already settling in these lands in the sixth century, and
what occurred in the reign of Heraclius was the recog-
nition by the Imperial Government a, accompli.of fait
It may be well to remark that the title of the Governor
of the Theme or province of Imperial Dalmatia in the
ninth century was archon, but in the reign of Leo VI. we
find him raised to the higher rank of stratcgos.
MSS.
B Parisinus 2009 (formerly 2661), twelfth century.
P Palatinus 126 (in the Vatican Library), written in
A.d. 1509. See Stevenson, Codd. MSS. Pal.
Grace. Bibl. Vat., 60.p.
Parisinus 2957, sixteenth century (worthless).
[On the MSS. see Vari in the Akadcmiai of theErUsito
Hungarian Academy, 72, 710-712, December, 1895 and
;
Pecz in JJi/zantinisclis Zeitschrifl, 6, 590; and Bury, op. cit.
infra, 518-19.]
Editions.
J. Meursius, 1611 and 1617 (based on the inferior
MS. P).
A. Banduri (in Imperhm Orientate, vol. i.), 1711 (based
on B).
1. Bckker, 1840 (based on Meursius and lianduri, and a
new collation of B).
Mignc, Patrologia Graeco-Latina, vol. cxii., 1884 (tran-
scription of Banduri's text).
