Musokios

Musokios (Greek Μουσοκιος ) was the leader of a Slavic association in an area somewhere north of the Danube in the late 6th century . It is not known exactly where this is to be geographically located.

In 593, in the course of Maurikios' Balkan campaigns, Byzantine troops under the command of Priskos advanced across the Danube into Slavic territory and defeated the military leader Ardagast . Mukosios was lured into a trap by false information and captured by the Byzantines and his subjects were apparently massacred. The descriptions suggest that his sphere of influence was some distance from the southern Danube border to the Byzantine Empire, as the Byzantine army first fought against Ardagast before they could advance into the area of ​​Musokios.

There are no other reports about him.

literature

• John Bagnell Bury : History of the Later Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene. Cosimo Inc., New York 2009, ISBN 9781605204055 ( online ), pp. 129 f., 171.
• Walter Pohl : The Avars. A steppe people in Central Europe 567–822 AD. 2nd edition. Beck, Munich 2002, pp. 137f.
• Daniel Ziemann: From wandering people to great power. The emergence of Bulgaria in the early Middle Ages (7th-9th centuries). Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna / Weimar 2007, p. 116 ( online ).