Braničevci
The Braničevci (Serbian Cyrillic: Браничевци) were a Slavic tribe that inhabited the region of Braničevo, in what is today Serbia, during the Middle Ages.
The Arab geographer al-Masʿūdī possibly mention them as Barānījābīn in a list of Slavic tribes after the Moravians (Murāwa), Croats (Kharwātīn), Saxons or Czechs (Sāsīn) and Kashubians or Guduscani (Khashānīn).[1]
Ferdo Šišić called the Braničevci and Timočani "Dacian-Slavic tribes" (dačko-slovenska plemena) and considered them as Serbs.[2] They were conquered by the Bulgarian Khan Krum in 805 AD together with the Timočani and Obodrites.[citation needed] The Khan annexed the territories that would serve as a frontier to Rascia and the Franks, he replaced their leaders with Bulgarian administrators.[3][failed verification] In 818 during the rule of Omurtag (814-836) Braničevci, together with other tribes of the frontier, revolted because of an administrative reform that deprived them of much of their local authority and seceded from Bulgaria.[4] They came under Frankish rule in 822. Timok and Branicevo would be of dispute between the Franks and Bulgars, the Khan sent embassies in 824 and 826 seeking to settle the border dispute, but was neglected.[5][failed verification][6][failed verification] Pavel Jozef Šafařik connected them to the Praedenecenti mentioned in the Royal Frankish Annals[7] in 822–824.[8]
References
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- ^ Šišić, Ferdo (1906). "Hrvatska povijest".
- ^ Études Historiques. Académie des sciences de Bulgarie, Institut d'histoire. 1966.[page needed]
- ^ The South Slav Journal. Dositey Obradovich Circle. 1989.[page needed]
- ^ Etudes Historiques. Académie des sciences de Bulgarie, Institut d'histoire. 1970.[page needed]
- ^ Fine, John V. A. Jr. (1991) [1983]. The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-08149-7.[page needed]
- ^ Pavel Jozef Šafařík (1837). Slowanské Starožitnosti. tiskem J. Spurného. pp. 612–.
- ^ John Van Antwerp Fine, When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans (University of Michigan Press, 2006), p. 35.