Kanalites

Canalites (red)

The Kanalites (Greek Καναλῖται ) were a South Slavic tribe in what is now Herzegovina .

Constantine VII wrote around 950 that the Kanalites lived in the same country as the Trawunians and were descendants of the unbaptized Serbs who came to the Balkans in the 7th century . There are no other reports of her.

literature

• Heinrich Kunstmann : The Slavs. Her name, her migration to Europe and the beginnings of Russian history from a historical and onomastic point of view. Steiner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-515-06816-3 , p. 125.
• Ernst Dümmler : About the oldest history of the Slavs in Dalmatia (549–928) (= Separatum from the meeting reports of the philosophical-historical class of the Imperial Academy of Sciences , Vol. 20). W. Braumüller, Vienna 1856 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library)