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Časlav Of Serbia
Tzeésthlabos (), usually transliterated as Časlav ( sr-cyr, Часлав) or Chaslav and Tzeeslav, was Prince of the Serbs from 933 until his death in 943/960. Časlav was the son of Klonimir, a son of Strojimir who ruled as co-prince in 851–880. He belongs to the first Serbian dynasty, the Vlastimirovićs (ruling since the early 7th century), and is the last known ruler of the family. His mother was a Bulgarian noblewoman chosen as wife of Klonimir by Boris I of Bulgaria himself. Initially an ally of the Bulgarians, Časlav successfully came to the throne of Serbia in a very chaotic period of history, managing to reorganize and repopulate the country after Bulgarian–Serbian wars of 917–924. He was a vassal of the Byzantine Empire. A possible identification with a same-named person from the '' Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja'' reveals that he presumably fought off the Magyars, but eventually dying in combat with them. Časlav is remembered, alongside his pred ...
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List Of Serbian Monarchs
This is an archontological list of Serbian monarchs, containing monarchs of the medieval principalities, to heads of state of modern Serbia. The Serbian monarchy dates back to the Early Middle Ages. The Serbian royal titles used include Knyaz (Prince), Grand Župan ( Grand Prince), King, Tsar (Emperor) and Despot. Early medieval Serbian states (7th century–1166) Vlastimirović dynasty (7th century–960) The Vlastimirović dynasty was the first royal dynasty of the Serb people. Byzantine emperor Constantine VII ''Porphyrogenitus'' (r. 913–959) mentions that the Serbian throne is inherited by ''the son'', i.e. the first-born, though in his enumeration of Serbian monarchs, on one occasion there was a triumvirate. ,, The Serbs established several polities by the 10th century: ''Serbia'' or ''Zagorje'' (''hinterlands'') which consisted of Serbia and small land of Bosnia; and '' Pomorje'' (''maritime'') which consisted of Dioclea, Zachlumia, Pagania, Travunia ...
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