Radojković's work was however discredited by S. In this way, the first long-lasting Serbian state was established after 150 years of permanent conflict with the Romans, ever since the fall of the Thracian Odrysian kingdom to the Romans in 44 AD. Deretić (1994), Serbia was a "strong kingdom" and Višeslav could have been a ( Great king), who, with his administration, seized absolute control of ruling power and turned himself into a hereditary ruler, as Kralj. Ćorović, the land was divided between the ruler's friends and governors, with the oldest brother having near-absolute domestic rule over the collective. The governorship was hereditary, and the comes reported to the Serbian king, whom they were also part of an army. župa), a confederation of village communities roughly equivalent to a county, headed by a local župan (a magistrate or comes). The Serbs at that time were organized into župe ( sing. King known by name was Višeslav, who began his rule around 780, being a contemporary of Frankish ruler Charlemagne ( fl.
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The DAI mentions that the Serbian throne is inherited by the son, i.e., the first-born his descendants succeeded him, though their names are unknown until the coming of Višeslav. The Serbian ruler was titled " archon of Serbia". The exact borders of the early Serbian state are unclear. These were all situated by the Adriatic and shared their northern borders (in the hinterland) with baptized Serbia. Constantine VII in DAI does not provide a sufficient basis for a reliable conclusion about the origin of the Slavic inhabitants of Duklja. and the "land" of Duklja which was held by the Byzantine empire though it was presumably settled with Serbs as well. The other Serb-inhabited lands, or principalities, that were mentioned included the "countries" of Paganija, Zahumlje, Travunija. Īccording to the DAI, "baptized Serbia", known erroneously in historiography as Raška ( Latin: Rascia), included the "inhabited cities" ( kastra oikoumena) of Destinikon, Tzernabouskeï, Megyretous, Dresneïk, Lesnik and Salines, while the "small land" ( chorion) of Bosna, part of Serbia, had the cities of Katera and Desnik. His account on the first Christianization of the Serbs can be dated to 632–638 this might have been Porphyrogenitus' invention, or may have really taken place, encompassing a limited group of chiefs and then very poorly received by the wider layers of the tribe. Porphyrogenitus stressed that the Serbs had always been under Imperial rule. Slavs invaded and settled the Balkans in the 6th and 7th centuries. 610–641), and was said to have died long before the Bulgar invasion of 680. He received the protection of Emperor Heraclius (r. The work mentions the first Serbian ruler, who is without a name but known conventionally as the " Unknown Archon", who led the Serbs from the north to the Balkans. The DAI drew information on the Serbs from, among others, a Serbian source. The history of the early medieval Serbian Principality and the Vlastimirović dynasty is recorded in the work De Administrando Imperio ("On the Governance of the Empire", DAI), compiled by the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus ( r. View of the highland part of the Stari Ras complex