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On the Serbian-Bulgarian border in the 9th and the 10th centuries [PDF]
The paper analyzes the information concerning the border between the Serbs and the Bulgarians in the 9th and the 10th centuries found in the work De administrando imperio by the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus.
Komatina Predrag
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The present text aims to reflect on the reliability of Constantine Porphyrogenitus’ account about the departure of Časlav, a Serbian prince, from Bulgaria at the beginning of the reign of Peter I, the successor of Symeon.
Mirosław J. Leszka
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On the attempts to locate the “inhabited cities” of porphyrogennetos’ Pagania a historiographic overview with special reference to controversial issues [PDF]
In this paper there was made an attempt at determining more precisely the location of the four “inhabited cities” (κάστρα οíκούμενα) of Pagania, mentioned in the De administrando imperio of Constantine Porphyrogennetos: Mokron (τò Μόκρον ...
Marković Miodrag
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The paper endeavours to discuss anew a scholarly puzzle related to the Croatian early Middle Ages and centred on a few lines from Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos’s De administrando imperio, which in English translation are as follows: And of the Croats ...
Hrvoje Gračanin
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Garum or Grain? Crimea and the Provisioning of Constantinople (7th to 9th centuries)
Historians have relied for too long on written sources (the letters that Pope Martin I wrote from Cherson, as well as De Administrando Imperio) to assess the economic situation in the Crimea, especially in Cherson, during the so-called Dark Ages (7th to ...
Florin Curta
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Introduction. The article aims to compare two texts concerning byzantine diplomatic practices of the mid 10th century. The first one is described in the 13th chapter of the treatise “De Administrando Imperio”, in which its author Constantine VII ...
Aleksey S. Shchavelev
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The oldest elements of the Serbian statehood [PDF]
Starting from the Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus' work De Administrando Imperio, where he wrote that after the death of a Serbian archon, the rule over the people was shared between his two sons, it is assumed that the Serbs were then a nomadic, animal ...
Đekić Đorđe N.
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Resorting to rare sources of antiquity: Nikephoros Basilakes and the popularity of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives in twelfth-century Byzantium [PDF]
This article examines the Byzantine adaptation of the anecdote of the Lydian king Pythes within Nikephoros Basilakes’ <i>Progymnasma</i> 11 in relation to its earliest surviving source, Plutarch’s <i>Mulierum virtutes</i> 262D ...
Xenophontos, Sophia
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Bosnia in the work of Kritoboulos of Imbros [PDF]
Most of the data Kritoboulos of Imbros, a Byzantine historian of the fifteenth century, gives about Bosnia, pertain to the last years of existence of the medieval Bosnian state.
Radić Radivoj
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The geographical position of the town of Rasa based on Porphyrogenitus and medieval maps
The town of Rasa was mentioned in the tenth-century work De administrando imperio by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. The significance of this town in the Middle Ages is indicated by the fact that this toponym appears on old maps created by the greatest ...
Mirko Grčić +2 more
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