Last time, we gave an account of Slavs in Muslim Spain. We stopped at the period of political turmoil called Fitna, when the caliphate split up into numerous states, usually referred to as Taifa. Some...
Time has come to mention the Slavs who arrived in the Muslim-occupied Spain. These can be subdivided into two groups: one consisted of the slaves of Slavic origin who were recognized as a highly...
The Slavic pirates on the Mediterrenean Sea were not uncommon during the 10th century. Ibn Hauqal mentions Slavic pirates plundering the coast of Muslim Spain, and al-Masudi who mentions that against the inhabitants of...
Introduction It is a widely accepted fact that Serbs and Croats came to the Balkans as Byzantine mercenaries who were to defend the Byzantine empire from the Avars, and since they came in quite a...
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