FYI - Over 400 toponyms just in Epirus.
In der Slavenzeit (6. bis 15. Jahrhundert) ist im Epirus, etwa nördlich des Golfes von Arta, der slavische Stamm der Βαιουνῖται durch die Demetrius-Legende (Migne PG 116 Sp. 1325) bezeugt, dessen Name sich trotz der lautlich schwer deutbaren Abweichung nicht von Βαγενετίαßa urk. a. 1361 bei Mikl.-Müller III Nr. 30 trennen läßt. Bei Anna Komnena V 4 (ed. Bonn. 1236, 15) steht Βαγενετία. Vgl. auch Niederle, Manuel 1109 ff. und SL St. Il 437 ff. Zur Deutung siehe unten S. 21. Die Ausbreitung der Albaner im 15. Jahrhundert hat vermutlich bald die Reste der slavischen Sprachinseln in diesem Lande beseitigt [1]. Über den Anteil der Albaner an der epirotischen Bevölkerung im 19. Jahrhundert unterrichtet Baldacci, Mitteilungen d. geograph. Ges. Wien, Bd. 39 (1896), 795 ff. Eine Karte der aromunischen Bevölkerung findet sich bei Weigand, Aromunen Bd. 1.
Die Slaven in Griechenland
von
Max Vasmer
http://www.kroraina.com/knigi/en/mv/index.html
Verzeichnis der slavischen geographischen Namen nach Landschaften geordnet:
1. Epirus:
a) Gebiet von Joannina (334)
b) Gebiet von Arta (50)
c) Gebiet von Preveza (34)
- Butrint lies in a region known by the thirteenth century as Bagenetia or Vagenetia, a term that can be traced back to the Slavic tribe known as the Baiounetai (Chrysos 1997: 184-5; Soustal in Hodges et al. 2004: 20-22; Curta 2006: 103) and which survived until the sixteenth century. The so-called Partitio Romaniae, a document of 1204 describing the division of the Byzantine Empire, records the chartularaton de Bagenetia. [PLEASE NOTE that the division of the Byzantine Empire is called PARTITIO ROMANIAE in the original document]
Between the seventh and tenth centuries the few sources make it difficult to judge whether Butrint was in Byzantine or Slavic hands. Occasional finds of so-called Komani jewellery from the region point to contacts with post-Roman tribes from inland Albania (see Bowden 2003; Curta 2006: 103-4). However, a lead seal found in the Lower Danube region, belonging to a certain Theodorus who was the imperial spatharios and archon of Vagenetia, suggests the region and perhaps Butrint's allegiance was to Byzantium (Curta 2006: 103; see also Chrysos 1997: 184-5). In the so-called Notitia of the Iconoclasts, compiled after AD 754, Butrint - Bythipotu - is listed as the fourth and penultimate city of Old Epirus, subject to Nikopolis. In 880-884, St. Elias the Younger and his pupil Daniel were accused of being Hagarenes (foreigners) and spies, and imprisoned at Butrint (polis epineios) by a man presumed to be a Byzantine official. In 904 the relics of St. Elias, who had died in Thessalonika, were brought to Butrint to be taken from there to Calabria. Little more is known about Butrint as a town at this time. Arsenios of Corfu (876-953), who apparently visited Epirus to plead with Slav pirates, recorded that Butrint was rich in fish and oysters, with a fertile hinterland. In sum, between the seventh and ninth centuries Butrint lay in a territory controlled by a local tribe - possibly of Slavic affinity or origin - that intermittently maintained official connection with Constantinople and adhered to a Byzantine administrative ethos (Soustal in Hodges et al. 2004).
- Butrint, we may deduce with caution, was administered by a commander sympathetic to Byzantium. Yet, as we have seen, the region, known as Vagenetia, was in the hands of a Slavic community, the Baiounetai. Was there some brief uprising as occurred, according to the Chronicle of Monemvasia (see Curta 2004: 535), further south in AD 805 at Patras? This later text describes how Byzantine Patras was attacked by local Slav communities, in response, perhaps, to increased Byzantine interest in the Adriatic Sea region (Curta 2006: 134-47).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Slavic_tribes_in_the_Balkans.png
Vaiunites or Baiunites, Slavs of Epirus
In der Slavenzeit (6. bis 15. Jahrhundert) ist im Epirus, etwa nördlich des Golfes von Arta, der slavische Stamm der Βαιουνῖται durch die Demetrius-Legende (Migne PG 116 Sp. 1325) bezeugt, dessen Name sich trotz der lautlich schwer deutbaren Abweichung nicht von Βαγενετίαßa urk. a. 1361 bei Mikl.-Müller III Nr. 30 trennen läßt. Bei Anna Komnena V 4 (ed. Bonn. 1236, 15) steht Βαγενετία. Vgl. auch Niederle, Manuel 1109 ff. und SL St. Il 437 ff. Zur Deutung siehe unten S. 21. Die Ausbreitung der Albaner im 15. Jahrhundert hat vermutlich bald die Reste der slavischen Sprachinseln in diesem Lande beseitigt [1]. Über den Anteil der Albaner an der epirotischen Bevölkerung im 19. Jahrhundert unterrichtet Baldacci, Mitteilungen d. geograph. Ges. Wien, Bd. 39 (1896), 795 ff. Eine Karte der aromunischen Bevölkerung findet sich bei Weigand, Aromunen Bd. 1.
Die Slaven in Griechenland
von
Max Vasmer
http://www.kroraina.com/knigi/en/mv/index.html
Verzeichnis der slavischen geographischen Namen nach Landschaften geordnet:
1. Epirus:
a) Gebiet von Joannina (334)
b) Gebiet von Arta (50)
c) Gebiet von Preveza (34)
- Butrint lies in a region known by the thirteenth century as Bagenetia or Vagenetia, a term that can be traced back to the Slavic tribe known as the Baiounetai (Chrysos 1997: 184-5; Soustal in Hodges et al. 2004: 20-22; Curta 2006: 103) and which survived until the sixteenth century. The so-called Partitio Romaniae, a document of 1204 describing the division of the Byzantine Empire, records the chartularaton de Bagenetia. [PLEASE NOTE that the division of the Byzantine Empire is called PARTITIO ROMANIAE in the original document]
Between the seventh and tenth centuries the few sources make it difficult to judge whether Butrint was in Byzantine or Slavic hands. Occasional finds of so-called Komani jewellery from the region point to contacts with post-Roman tribes from inland Albania (see Bowden 2003; Curta 2006: 103-4). However, a lead seal found in the Lower Danube region, belonging to a certain Theodorus who was the imperial spatharios and archon of Vagenetia, suggests the region and perhaps Butrint's allegiance was to Byzantium (Curta 2006: 103; see also Chrysos 1997: 184-5). In the so-called Notitia of the Iconoclasts, compiled after AD 754, Butrint - Bythipotu - is listed as the fourth and penultimate city of Old Epirus, subject to Nikopolis. In 880-884, St. Elias the Younger and his pupil Daniel were accused of being Hagarenes (foreigners) and spies, and imprisoned at Butrint (polis epineios) by a man presumed to be a Byzantine official. In 904 the relics of St. Elias, who had died in Thessalonika, were brought to Butrint to be taken from there to Calabria. Little more is known about Butrint as a town at this time. Arsenios of Corfu (876-953), who apparently visited Epirus to plead with Slav pirates, recorded that Butrint was rich in fish and oysters, with a fertile hinterland. In sum, between the seventh and ninth centuries Butrint lay in a territory controlled by a local tribe - possibly of Slavic affinity or origin - that intermittently maintained official connection with Constantinople and adhered to a Byzantine administrative ethos (Soustal in Hodges et al. 2004).
- Butrint, we may deduce with caution, was administered by a commander sympathetic to Byzantium. Yet, as we have seen, the region, known as Vagenetia, was in the hands of a Slavic community, the Baiounetai. Was there some brief uprising as occurred, according to the Chronicle of Monemvasia (see Curta 2004: 535), further south in AD 805 at Patras? This later text describes how Byzantine Patras was attacked by local Slav communities, in response, perhaps, to increased Byzantine interest in the Adriatic Sea region (Curta 2006: 134-47).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Slavic_tribes_in_the_Balkans.png
Vaiunites or Baiunites, Slavs of Epirus
