The early history of the Slavonic settlements in Dalmatia, Croatia, & Serbia

University Of California Libraries, J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury, Emperor Of The East Constantine Vii Porphyrogenitus

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UC-NRLF 5 W'HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIilllllllllillllll, B 3 MM3 71b v.i8GAYLAMOUNT WNDE* - BERKEPAMPHLET nPWPRfli IIRRARY IIP..GAYLAMOUNT PAMPHLET BINDER RPNFRAI IIBRARY U.C. BERN 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).