Well, the Avar conquests in the Carpathian
basin, Pannonia and the Balkans began _after_ 550 and some form of Slavic
vassalage under the Avars (punctuated by revolts like that which ended in
the establishment of Samo's state) lasted until the ultimate collapse of
the power of the western Avars, defeated by Charlemagne, who received
significant help from the politically ambitious Moravians, in the 790's. In the
seventh century the Serbs were invited by the Byzantines to settle permanently
in the western Balkans -- quite a massive migration; the Croats also moved into
their present lands about the same time. Until the intrusion of the Magyars
there was no abrupt boundary between the Western Slavs (and in particular
Proto-Czech/Slovak) and the Serbian/Croatian/Slovene group. They formed a
dialectal continuum, and there was certainly some movement of populations to and
fro. After the Magyar conquest of Pannonia at least some of the local Slavs must
have been displaced, migrating in various directions, but I don't know anything
concrete about that.
Piotr
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Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] for ignorants
I am specialy interested about something else. About "waves"
of migration in south and south-est of europe a f t e r 550. If there are any
records which will tell us about
succesive waves of slavs comming in the
VII-X centuries from?, let us say, somewhere, and settling in the actualy
Bulgaria and Serbia, or there is not record at all and the salvs from south are
the people who migrated there until the end of VI century and they
developed well there.