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This is the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Middle Ages, in particular after the Illyrian and Roman period and before the Ottoman period. == Slavic migrations == By the 6th century, Emperor Justinian had re-conquered the area for the Byzantine Empire. The Slavs, a migratory people from southeastern Europe, were allied by the Eurasian Avars in the 6th century, and together they invaded the Eastern Roman Empire in the 6th and 7th centuries, settling in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina and the surrounding lands.〔 More South Slavs came in a second wave, and according to some scholars were invited by Emperor Heraclius to drive the Avars from Dalmatia.〔 Very little is known about the period between 700 and 1000. The Slavs, who had originated in areas spanning modern-day southern Poland, were subjugated by the Eurasian Avars. Together, they invaded the Byzantine Empire starting in the 6th century, settling in lands south of river Sava to Adriatic sea, including Bosnia, and the Hum.〔(The Slavs on ''The Columbia Encyclopedia'', Sixth Edition )〕 In the early Middle Ages, the earliest preserved mention of the name Bosnia comes from the book ''De Administrando Imperio'', Chapter 31, which mentions the "small country" (χοριον) of "Bosona" (Βοσωνα), located around the river Bosna in the modern-day fields of Sarajevo and of Visoko.〔Vladimir Ćorović, ''Teritorijalni razvoj bosanske države u srednjem vijeku'', Glas SKA 167, Belgrade, 1935, pp. 10-13〕 The area is thought to have been previously inhabited by the Illyrian tribe of the Daesitiates,. Of the two inhabited cities described in the work, Kotor/Katera and Desnik,〔〔 the location of Desnik is still unknown, while Katera was located to the south of present day Sarajevo. Vrhbosna arose out of Katera. The Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja, dating probably from the late 12th century, also names Bosnia as a somewhat larger region, referencing an earlier source from the year of 753 - the De Regno Sclavorum (Of the Realm of Slavs).〔''The Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja''〕 The romanised population of Roman Bosnia, after the arrival of the Slavs and the massacres done by the Avars, started to be represented mostly by shepherds in the mountains called ''Vlasi'' (Vlachs). However they were present in huge numbers in Bosnia-Herzegovina until the 14th century, according to scholar Marko Vego.〔Map showing in red the Vlasi of Herzegovina〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Middle Ages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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