10th century in Serbia

Events from the 10th century in, or regarding, Historic Serbia or Serbs.

Monarchs

The following, of the Vlastimirović dynasty, ruled Serbia:
* Petar (892–917)
* Pavle (917–921)
* Zaharija (921–924)
* Časlav (927–960)

Events

* 914–917
** Byzantines sends envoys to Serbs and Magyars regarding an alliance against the Bulgarians.
** Prince Petar of Serbia annexes Bosnia and Pagania.
** Prince Petar comes into conflict with Michael of Zahumlje.
** Michael warns the Bulgarians about the Serbian-Byzantine alliance.
* 917
** End of 20-year-peace between Serbia and Bulgaria;
** Prince Petar defends an attack by his cousin and Bulgarian ally Pavle.
** Prince Petar is captured by Bulgarian generals, sent to jail in Bulgaria, and dies within a year.
** Pavle becomes the Serbian Prince.
* 920
** Prince Pavle defends an attack by his cousin and Byzantine ally Zaharija.
** Zaharija is handed over to Symeon of Bulgaria.
** Prince Pavle switches to Byzantine support.
* 921–922
** Zaharija is dispatched with Bulgarian troops and there is no more mention of Pavle.
** Zaharija becomes the Serbian Prince.
** Zaharija reavows his loyalty to the Byzantine Empire.
* 923
** Zaharija united several Slav tribes along the common border to revolt against Bulgaria. Symeon sent an insufficient number of troops to quell the rebels; several Bulgarian generals were killed, their heads and weapons were sent to Constantinople by Zaharija as gifts and signs of loyalty
* 924
** Časlav is dispatched with Bulgarian troops, forcing Zaharija into exile in Croatia.
** Symeon summons the Serbian nobility, to pay homage to their new Prince, Časlav, but instead of instating him, Symeon takes them captive, annexing Serbia.
* 925
** Michael of Zahumlje disappears from sources.
* 893–927
** a church is built in Sočanica.
* 927
** Croatian-Bulgar battle in eastern Bosnia
* 927 or 933
** Časlav returns to Serbia.
** Časlav unites the tribes of Bosnia, Herzegovina, Old Serbia and Montenegro (incorporated Zeta, Pagania, Zahumlje, Travunia, Konavle, Bosnia and Rascia into Serbia, ι Σερβλια).
* before 960
** The Magyars invade Bosnia.
** Časlav and his army defeats the Magyars. Kisa, the Magyar Duke, is killed by Tihomir. (see Battle of Drina)
** Tihomir receives the Drina župania and marries the daughter of Časlav.
* after 960
** Kisa's widow returns with an army. Časlav is captured and killed.
** Tihomir becomes the Serbian Prince.
* 961–962
** ''Saqaliba'' (Slavs) in the mountainous regions of Central Balkans, "west of the Bulgarians and east from the ''other Slavs'' (Croats)", have the reputation of being "the most courageous and violent".
* 968–971
** Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria
* 969–971
** Serbia is conquered by the Byzantines.
* 971–976
** The Catepanate of Ras is established. "John" was the ''protospatharios and katepano of Ras''.
* ca. 990
** Jovan Vladimir is born.
* 992
** A Serbian diplomatic mission, possibly sent from Duklja, arrives in the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and was recorded in a charter of the Great Lavra Monastery, written in 993.Ostrogorsky 1956, pp. 273–5.
* 998
** Rascia and Bosnia is annexed by Bulgaria.
* early 10th century
** Čučimir, of the Belojević noble family, holds Travunia.
* 968–1018
** Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria
* 10th- or 11th century
** "Peter" was the ''archon of Duklja''.
** Emperor Basil II (976–1025) installed a garrison in Belgrade.''Byzantium in the year 1000''
p. 121

References

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10th century by country
Centuries in Serbia