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Narentine Slavs sent envoys to Doge Giovanni I Participazio (r. The first conflicts between the Venetians and Narentines came immediately before 830, around which time the first peace agreement was signed between the two (the Venetian Doge and Sclavorum de insula Narrentis). Slavic naval raids on the Adriatic increased and it became unsafe for travel. In 642, Slavs invaded southern Italy and attacked Siponto, by ship from the Dalmatian coast. According to Evans, Narentia became a stronghold for pagans in the Balkans, similarly to Balto-Slavs in RГјgen (at Jaromarsburg). The Slavs built a new town on the ruins of Narona, and erected a monument to their Slavic god Svetovid, on the ruins of Roman temples. A few years later, Slavic tribes took control of the lower Neretva. In 639 AD, Narona, until then a flourishing Roman city, was destroyed by a horde of Avars and Slavs. 610вЂ“641), and that the land of the Narentines had earlier been devastated by the Avars. The DAI speaks of the Narentines as descended from the 'unbaptized Serbs' that settled Dalmatia under the protection of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (r. The Sclaveni (South Slavs) overwhelmed the Balkans in the 6th century. Croatia was situated to the west, and Zachumlia to the east Serbia was situated inland to the north, behind Pagania, Zachumlia, Travunia and Dioklea, and bordered to Croatia on the Tzentina ( Cetina) river. Islands in the vicinity but not part of Pagania were Chora (presumably SuЕЎac ), IГ«s (Vis ) and Lastobon ( Lastovo ). Pagania had the inhabited cities of Mokron (Makarska ), Beroullia (presumably Brela ), Ostrok ( Zaostrog ) and Slavinetza (near Gradac ), and the large islands of Kourkra/Kiker with a city ( KorДЌula ), Meleta/Malozeatai ( Mljet ), Phara ( Hvar ) and Bratzis ( BraДЌ ). Rhastotza and Mokros lay by the coast, and had galleys, while Dalen was distant from the sea and was based on agriculture. Pagania had the counties ( Еѕupa (zoupanias)) of Rhastotza, Mokros and Dalen. In DAI's chapters Story of the province of Dalmatia and Of the Pagani, also called Arentani, and of the country they now dwell in, the geography of Pagania is described. In Croatian, the tribal name is rendered as Neretljani (РќРµСЂРµС‚С™Р°РЅРё) and Pagani (РџР°РіР°РЅРё), while the polity mostly as Paganija (РџР°РіР°РЅРёСР°). The Pagani are so called because they did not accept baptism at the time when all the Croats were baptized.' Venetian sources ( John the Deacon) used the geographical term Narentani (as in princeps Narentanorum, Narrentanos Sclavos ) and Slavic ethnonym ( Sclavi) to refer to the people. 913вЂ“959), the tribe is called Paganoi (Greek: О О±ОіО±ОЅОїбЅ¶, О О±ОіО±ОЅОїбј°), and their polity Pagania (О О±ОіО±ОЅбЅ¶О±, О О±ОіО±ОЅбј°О±), in Greek, while also noting that in Latin they are called Arentanoi (О‘ПЃОµОЅП„О±ОЅОїбј°) and their polity Arenta (О‘ПЃОµОЅП„О±). In the 10th-century De Administrando Imperio ( DAI) of Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (r. The word Narentine is a demonym derived from the local Neretva river (Latin language: Narenta).

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