The White Croats, also known simply as Croats, were a group of Early Slavic tribes that lived between East Slavic and West Slavic tribes in the historical region of Galicia north of the Carpathian Mou
European territory inhabited by West Slavs and East Slavs circa 700–850 AD.
Tanais Tablets B containing the name Χοροάθος (Horoáthos).
The range of Slavic ceramics of the Prague-Penkovka culture marked in black, all known ethnonyms of Croats are within this area. Presumable migration routes of Croats are indicated by arrows, per V. V. Sedov (1979).
Borders of Duchy of Bohemia and Slavník dynasty under Boleslaus I and Boleslaus II of Přemyslid dynasty in the 10th century. Duchy's territory included parts of today's Poland and Ukraine.
Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group native to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and other neighboring countries in Central and Southeastern Europe. They share a common Croatian culture, ancestry, hi
White Croats
…in the Carpathians, to the Roman province of Dalmatia (in present-day Croatia along the Adriatic Sea), becoming ancestors of the modern South Slavic Croats. The Pannonian Avars plundered the Roman provinces, before being conquered by the White Croats, where they then settled and soon started accepting…
Arrival of the Croats to the Adriatic Sea by Oton Iveković
Branimir Inscription (9th-century) from Šopot near Benkovac in Croatia, as "Dux Cruatorum", has the earliest carved ethnonym Hrvat (Cruat-/Crvat-) in the form which is still pronounced today.
Coronation of King Tomislav by Oton Iveković.