The unnamed 7th-century Serbian ruler or Serbian archon is a figure known from the 10th-century Byzantine chronicle, De Administrando Imperio. In it, he is reported to have been the leader of the Serb
The Serbian archon led the Serbs to the Balkans according to the origins of the Serbs narrated in De Administrando Imperio
Dervan (duke)
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Dervan or Derwan was an Early Slavic ruler of the Sorbs, a Polabian Slavic ancestral tribe of modern Sorbs. He was the first Sorbian ruler mentioned by name in historical sources.
Unnamed 7th-century Serbian ruler
…served as the foundation-stone narrative of traditional Serbian historiography. Historians following these perspectives commonly view him as related to Dervan, a leader of the Sorbs—in line with the dominant identification of White Serbia as the lands of the Sorbs common among them. According to the accounts…
The Chronicle of Fredegar mentions a "Dervanus dux gente Surbiorum" and is the only independent historical source containing details about his life
Approximate location of the areas in which Sorbian tribesmen were ruled over by Dervan in the 7th-century.
The tribe of the Sorbs under Dervan, as part of speculative reconstruction of the territories in which various Slavic tribes had pledged allegiance to Samo's tribal polity in 631