The Serbs trace their history to the 6th- and 7th-century Slavic migrations to the Balkans. Settling in various parts of the Balkans, Early Slavs assimilated local Byzantine populations and other form
Location of White Serbia c. 560 AD, according to Francis Dvornik (1949–1956)
Byzantine Empire 1355
Sorbs (tribe)
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The Sorbs or Sorabi or Surbi were a medieval Early Slavic tribe, who settled between Saale and Elbe, and as a tribal confederation a region encompassing much of present-day Saxony and Thuringia. They
Origin hypotheses of the Serbs
…geographer. According to De Administrando Imperio (DAI), written by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII (912–959), the Serbs originated from the "White Serbs" who lived on the "other side of Turkey" (name used for Hungary), in the area that they called "Boiki" (Bohemia). White Serbia bordered to the Franks…
The first mention of Sorbs in the Chronicle of Fredegar, under 631
Sorbs and their sub-tribes, Luzici, Milceni and Daleminci, seen in the southwest corner of the early West Slavic tribal area, by W. Fix, 1869
Sorbian tribes between the 7th and 11th century, by Wilhelm Bogusławski, 1861
Dervan's Sorbian polity