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White Croatia and the arrival of the Croats: an interpretation of Constantine Porphyrogenitus on the oldest Dalmatian history

open access: closedEarly Medieval Europe, 2011
The article examines Constantine Porphyrogenitus' (913–59) witness on the arrival of the Croats in Dalmatia during the seventh century. The emperor's narrative proposes a migration from a land called White Croatia, located somewhere in central Europe, and a battle with the Avars in order to secure their new territory.
Francesco Borri
semanticscholar   +6 more sources

CONSTANTINE PORPHYROGENITUS

open access: closed, 2002
Chris Brown   +2 more
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The Official Histories of Constantine Porphyrogenitus

2013
The reign of Romanus I Lecapenus (920-44), although it was a time of growing prosperity and military success, apparently failed to attract contemporary historians. A poorly educated man of humble origins, Romanus had little interest in patronizing literature.
W. Treadgold
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The Memory Palace of Constantine Porphyrogenitus

1999
An investigation of the roles of late antique visual and literary exemplars in Byzantine court culture of the ninth and tenth centuries. Three modes of memory are detected: the appropriative, the interpretative, and the sequential. Each can be seen at work in the time of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, although this reign represents the culmination ...
A. Cutler
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Towards the Etymology of the Names of the Dnieper Rapids in Constantine Porphyrogenitus: Βράσμα Νεροῦ

Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, 2015
The names of seven Dnieper rapids in Constantine’s Porphyrogenitus De administrando imperio (‘On the Governance of the Empire’) are given both in ‘Slavonic’ and in ‘Rhosic’, i.e. Old Scandinavian, and in addition Constantine explains the meanings of some of these names in Greek. The present paper focuses on the name for the sixth rapid, Βeρούτςη/Λeάντι,
F. Uspenskij
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The Names of the Dnieper Rapids in Chapter 9 of Constantine Porphyrogenitus’ De administrando imperio

Scando-Slavica, 2003
New interpretations are given for [ν]Έσσουπῆ ‘watching’, ‘the guard’; Ἀeιφὸρ ‘the ever-shallow rapids’; βαρουφόροϛ – βουλνηπράχ ‘the bare rapids; Λeάντι, βeρούτζ ‘the violently rushing rapids’. Στρούκουν has a Greek ending and is not a dative plural. Ναστρeζή is a collective formation with a diminutive sense. Both names mean ‘the small rapids’.
Elsa Melin, B. Ellenberger
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Constantine Porphyrogenitus and His World

The American Historical Review, 1974
Cyril Mango, Arnold Toynbee
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