A Macedonia beyond the Danube? (original) (raw)
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2021
This book is an attempt for a short description of the initial history of the Bulgarians according to the historical sources, which unambiguously define the location of the Bulgarians here, on the Balkans, both in terms of initial mentioning related to particular events (5th-6th century), and in terms of the mass nature of the information. This mass nature shows that due to reasons, about which we can only build hypotheses, the population on the Balkan during the Roman empire were called Bulgarians; here and at that time the name of Bulgaria was mentioned (4th century). These issues were discussed in detail in the book “Old Great Bulgaria”, while the present material is an attempt at concise exposition of the main content, with a thorough analysis of the first historical facts.
Balcanoslavica 50, 2021
Abstract: In the late 13th and early 14th centuries, Serbia gradually imposed itself as the most powerful factor in the Balkans, suppressing the hegemonic preponderance of Byzantium and Bulgaria. The breakthrough of medieval Serbia in Macedonia which lasted for several decades, gradually conquering the cities and important fortresses. The main military campaign was directed along the currents of the Vardar and Struma rivers, towards the city of Thessaloniki, for which Byzantium organized a systematic defense, forming a limes that ran along the line of the Byzantino-Serbian border from Ohrid - Prilep - Proseк - Strumica - Melnik. Strumica played a significant role in the events that marked the first half of the 14th century in the Balkans, due to the good fortification, as well as the control of the important corridors that passed along it. Strumica connected the southern and middle-Balkan regions, and was the key of the communication between the middle currents of the Vardar and Struma rivers
BYZANTINE – BULGARIAN RELATIONS IN THE 10TH C.
2015
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Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta/Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta, 2023
The article explores the potential for the Danube-Sava-Kupa waterway and the secondary roads that ran along it to serve as an alternate route for travel, covering a sizable portion of the journey between Bulgaria and Rome or the East Frankish kingdom at a time when the Middle Danube region could not guarantee traveler safety. Although relatively sparse, written records of travel between Pliska, the ninth-century capital of Bulgaria, and Rome, or between Pliska and the migratory court of the East Frankish kings, indicate that this route was probably used from 866 to 892/93.
Our paper is based on results from the FWF project “Byzantino-Serbian Border Zones in Transition: Migration and Elite Change in pre-Ottoman Macedonia (1282-1355)” (P 30384-G28). The Balkans witnessed a time of war and change of power between the Byzantine Empire and the Serbian Kingdom in the 13th and 14th centuries. The Serbian expansion took place from the important city of Skopje in the North in the direction of the town of Prilep in the South in various stages from 1282 until 1334. For our paper, two source-based terms in medieval Serbian charters are essential. Firstly, these charters attest to so-called exaleimmata (abandoned landed property). Secondly, we come across the term selište. It indicates either a settlement site, which was foreseen to be resettled, or a destroyed village. We can tell the difference in many cases, because the sources highlight very often explicitly that a settlement site was deserted (in Serbian pusto). Our hypothesis is that these deserted villages could mark a path of destruction, on which King Stefan Dušan marched to the South against the Byzantine Empire.