Tibor Živković ( sr-cyr, Тибор Живковић; 11 March 1966 – 26 March 2013) was a Serbian historian and

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who specialised in the period of the

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Biography

Živković was born in

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, and studied history at the

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at the

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, graduating in 1990 from the Department of Antiquity. He earned his MA in 1996 with the thesis ''Slavizacija na teritoriju Srbije VII-XI stoljeća'' (Slavicization on the Territory of Serbia in the 7th–11th Centuries), and his PhD in 2000 with the dissertation ''Slavs under Byzantine Rule from the 7th to 11th Centuries (until 1025''). During his doctoral studies, from 1997 to 1999, he was the recipient of a scholarship from the Government of Greece; he conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute for Byzantine Research of the

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on a fellowship from the Ministry of Science and Technological Development of Serbia. As of 1997, he worked at the Institute of History of the

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(SANU), where he was the director from 2002 to 2010, as well as editor in chief of the Drafting Committee for its editions. He was a team leader in archaeological excavations along the Ibar River between 2003 and 2009, and taught general medieval studies in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Banja Luka.

Publications

Živković published extensively. His field of research encompassed the early medieval history of the South Slavs on the territories of Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Bulgaria, and Greece. He focused on the history of the Serbs during this period, but he also provided new insights on ''

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'', the work of the Byzantine emperor

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. His main theory was that the chapters devoted to Croats and Serbs were largely based on a lost source written by

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in the late 9th century, hypothetically called ''De conversione Croatorum et Serborum''. Živković also worked on the '' Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja'' (), an early history of the Western

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territories and their rulers.

Books

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