Čechy jako pravlast Chorvatů? Dalmácie a její proměny v raném středověku
| Title in English | Bohemia as the Cradle of Croats? Dalmatia and Its Early Medieval Transformation |
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Jiří Sláma (1934–2020). Věda, láska, víra |
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| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.35686/1934202003 |
| Keywords | cemetery; chronology; White Croats; Croatia |
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| Description | The transformation of early medieval Dalmatia and its ethnic composition in the 7th–9th century remains a hotly debated topic without a satisfying conclusion to date. When investigating the early medieval history of the Dalmatian area, Croatian researchers rely mainly on Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus’s work De Administrando Imperio. The interest of these scholars is focused mainly on the question of when the Croats arrived in Dalmatia. Some interpretations date their arrival to the beginning of the 7th century, while other researchers claim that the Croats came to the Adriatic only at the end of the 8th century. Archaeology thus far has little to offer in the way of settling this dispute, with archaeologists lacking a sufficient amount of their own data on which to build a chronology, forcing them to rely on information from written sources. To this day, it is not entirely clear when and from where the Croats arrived in the Balkans, nor who is actually buried in the 7th-century cemeteries. |
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