Abodriten (Danube)

The Abodrites (Latin Abodriti ) or Praedenecenti were a South Slavic tribe on the central Danube in the 9th century.

area

The settlement area was in Dacia on the Danube on the border with the Danube- Bulgarian Empire ( conterminis Bulgaris Daciam Danubio ).

The name Abodriti could be linguistically related to the Bodrog River in Hungary.

history

In 818 representatives of the Abodriti appeared at Emperor Ludwig the Pious in Herstal . In 822 representatives of the Praedenecenti appeared at Ludwig's at the Reichstag in Frankfurt . Two years later, emissaries from the Praedenecenti again appeared at Ludwig in Aachen with a request for military support against the Bulgarians . There are no other mentions of the tribe. Possibly they were incorporated into the Danube-Bulgarian Empire in 827 or 829.

The Bavarian geographer mentioned a tribe of the Osterabtrezi with 100 castles around 850 . Probably the Danube abodrites were meant.

literature

Leszek Moszyński: Słownik starożytności słowiańskich , t.3, Wrocław 1967, p. 67

Remarks

↑ What was probably meant was the Abodriten Praedenecenti and not the Mecklenburg Abodrites , as they were named together with other South Slavic tribes: "... nationum legati Abodritorum videlicet ac Bornae ducis Guduscanorum et Timocianorum (...)" "Emissaries of the Abodritian tribe namely and from Borna , the Duke of the Guduschans and Timotschans "
^ Annales regni Francorum

[1] What was probably meant was the Abodriten Praedenecenti and not the Mecklenburg Abodrites , as they were named together with other South Slavic tribes: "... nationum legati Abodritorum videlicet ac Bornae ducis Guduscanorum et Timocianorum (...)" "Emissaries of the Abodritian tribe namely and from Borna , the Duke of the Guduschans and Timotschans "

[2] Annales regni Francorum