The Slavs of the Mid-Danube Basin and the Bulgarian Expansion in the first half of the 9th century

Abstract

The Annals of the Frankish kingdom, under the year 818, contain a description of the arrival of legations of certain Abodrits, Guduskans and Timo~ans at the Frankish court in Heristal. This paper is devoted to an attempt at the further identification of these tribes and their habitats. It mainly discusses the possibility that the Timo~ans and Abodrits should be recognized as two of the so-called Seven Slavic tribes, over whom the Bulgarians imposed their power in 680/681. The final part of the paper is dedicated to an overview of the question of the expansion of Bulgarian authority in the area of the Morava River valley.

U Analima Franačkog kraljevstva, pod 818. g., opisuje se dolazak poslanstava izvesnih Abodrita, Guduskana i Timočana na franački dvor u Heristal. Rad je posvećen pokušaju bliže identifikacije ovih plemena i njihovih staništa. Raspravlja se prevashodno o mogućnosti da se u Timočanima i Abodritima prepoznaju dva od tzv. Sedam slovenskih plemena kojima su Bugari nametnuli svoju vlast 680/681. g. Na kraju se daje i osvrt na pitanje širenja bugarske vlasti na područje Moravske doline.