Sclaveni (military)

Sclaveni (military)

The name Sclaveni was generally used to describe all Slavic peoples that the Byzantine Empire came into contact with. However, by 800, the term referred specifically to Slavic mobile military colonists who settled as allies within the territories of the Byzantine Empire. Slavic military settlements appeared in the Peloponnese, Asia Minor, and Italy. The Byzantines also referred to the Avar military elite as Sclaveni. These elites, specifically, re-established their power-base under either Frankish or Byzantine rule in Pannonia and Moravia. ["Slavs." Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Vol. 3, pp. 1917-1919.]

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