Narentans

Pagania / (N) arenta as part of Dalmatia on a map from the 18th century.

The Narentans (Greek Ναρεντάνοι Narentanoi , Latin Narentani ) were a South Slavic tribe from the 9th to 11th centuries in Pagania , a coastal strip along the eastern Adriatic . In Byzantine and Venetian sources, they have been mentioned several times as feared pirates .

Ethnonym

The name Narentaner was possibly derived from the Neretva River (ital. Narenta ). The terms Pagani ( heathen ) and Mariani (sea people) were also used for the population in the area of the Narentans.

Constantine VII wrote that the Latin name of the tribe was Arentani and that their country was called Arenta .

history

Constantine VII wrote around 950 that the Narentans were descended from the Serbs .

The Narentans were feared as pirates in the Adriatic. Venetian attempts to pacify them did not bring lasting success. Around 839 the Doge Pietro Tradonico sailed the Dalmatian coast with a large fleet and concluded a peace treaty with Drosaico , leader of the Marians ( iudex Marianorum ). On another trip to Dalmatia (around 840?) He was severely beaten by Liudislav. After 870, Byzantine clergy succeeded in Christianizing the Narentans.

In 887 the Doge Pietro I Candiano was killed in an attack on Dalmatia, and the Republic of Venice undertook to pay tribute to the Dalmatian Slavs. It was not until 998 that Doge Pietro II. Orseolo succeeded in bringing the area under Venetian rule, under Byzantine suzerainty. Today the area is part of the Republic of Croatia .

leader

Drosaico , around 839
Liudisclau , around 840
Uneslaf
Diodur

swell

Klaus Belke , Peter Soustal: The Byzantines and their neighbors. The text of the Emperor Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos called De Administrando Imperio (= Byzantine historians . Vol. 19). Translated, introduced and explained. Fassbaender, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-900538-54-9 .
Constantine Porphyrogenitus: De Administrando Imperio (= Dumbarton Oaks Texts. Vol. 1 = Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae . Vol. 1). Greek text edited by Gy. Moravcsik . English translation by RJH Jenkins. New, revised edition, 2nd imprint. Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington DC 1985, ISBN 0-88402-021-5 .

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos, De Administrando Imperio , openlibrary.org

literature

Ernst Dümmler , On the oldest history of the Slavs in Dalmatia (549-928) , online , p. 45f.
Konstantin Jireček , History of the Serbs , Vol. 1. (Until 1371.), Gotha 1911.

Web links

Narentania in an old book by Thaddäus Bulgarin from the 19th century
Art. Neretvani , Hrvatska enciklopedija

Individual evidence

↑ Constantine Porphyrogenitus: De Administrando Imperio (= Dumbarton Oaks Texts. Vol. 1 = Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae. Vol. 1). Greek text edited by Gy. Moravcsik. English translation by RJH Jenkins. New, revised edition, 2nd imprint. Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington DC 1985, ISBN 0-88402-021-5 ; P. 165.
↑ cf. see The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland , p. 87, online

[1] Constantine Porphyrogenitus: De Administrando Imperio (= Dumbarton Oaks Texts. Vol. 1 = Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae. Vol. 1). Greek text edited by Gy. Moravcsik. English translation by RJH Jenkins. New, revised edition, 2nd imprint. Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington DC 1985, ISBN 0-88402-021-5 ; P. 165.

[2] . see The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland , p. 87, online