Historia Salonitana

Historia Salonitana

Historia Salonitana by Thomas the Archdeacon is a historic chronicle from the 13th century which contains significant information about the early history of the Croats.

It was first published by Ivan Lučić Lucius.cite journal | journal = Review of Croatian History | title = Archdeacon Thomas of Split (1200–1268) – A source of early Croatian History | volume = | year = 2007 | issue = 1 | pages = p.251-269 | author = Matijević Sokol, Mirjana | url = http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/issuedetails.aspx?issueid=e91cadfc-aca0-44e4-9cf7-58fb957a2df9&articleId=70a8118b-ab07-4966-b5e0-3435d7271023 ] An extended version of this work, known as the Historia Salonitana maior was published in the sixteenth century, [cite book | title = The Late Medieval Balkans | author = John Van Antwerp Fine | pages = p.142-3,631 | year = 1994 | publisher = University of Michigan Press | isbn = 0472082604 ] and critical editions of both have been republished by Nada Klaić (Belgrade: Naucno delo, 1967). [cite book | title = Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250 | author = Florin Curta, Paul Stephenson | page = p. 17 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 2006 | isbn = 0521815398 ]

The chronicle gives an account of the arrival of the Croats:

"From the Polish territories called Lingonia seven or eight tribal clans arrived under Totilo. When they saw that the Croatian land would be suitable for habitation because in it there were few Roman colonies, they sought and obtained for their duke…The people called Croats…Many call them Goths, and likewise Slavs, according to the particular name of those who arrived from Poland and Bohemia."

This account may be considered more similar to that which is found in De Administrando Imperio than the Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja.

The chronicle notes that by the time of the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius and Pope John IV, some Croats had been converted to Christianity. Both these men died in the mid 7th century, which leaves an estimate of the actual arrival of the Croats to the Adriatic at sometime in the early part of the century.

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