Slavs and nomadic populations in Greece
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1) "Bronze fibulae of the so-called Slavic (or Antic) type have been found in six sites in Greece: a random find is the fibula from Sparta, a surface find is the fibula from the early Byzantine settlement of Messene as well as the fibulae found in Demetrias and Dion. There are only two cases so far of fibulae found in a burial; unfortunately these complexes have been very poorly documented: a pair of fibula was found together with a belt buckle of the so-called Syracuse type in Kouphia Petra, Edessa, while in the Early Byzantine site of Thebes (Nea Anchialos, Thessaly) a fibula came up together with a Byzantine belt buckle in a grave chamber of one of the town’s basilicas. Fibulae of these type cannot be easily associated with the Byzantine population; it is known that the use of a pair of fibulae is a characteristic of the female costume of Germanic peoples but also of peoples of nomadic origin (Alans, Ants) in the region of Crimea and the Ucrainian steppe, but it is nevertheless impossible with the evidence available so far to identify more accurately the origin of persons using this type of fibulae in Greece."
2) "The Slavic tribes mentioned in the Byzantine sources contemporary or later (Miracula of Saint Demetrius, Chronicle of Monemvasia, the works of Theophanes and Constantine Porphyrogennetos) as living in areas of the Greek territory since the beginning of the 7th century are being found mainly in Macedonia, Epirus, Thessaly and the Peloponnese. Some of these settlements mentioned in the Byzantine written sources can be localized through archaeological evidence in the Peloponnese; this is the case in Olympia in the Western Peloponnese (cemetery with incineration urns); the presence of Slavs or “foreigners” can be postulated in other sites: Messene (a handmade pot and a fibula were found), in Corinth (a hand made pot found together with a knife and a Byzantine sword), Sparta (a bronze fibula) and Palaioboukouvina (hand made vessels and knives). (See also the report of Natalia Poulou-Papademetriou – Christina Katsougiannopoulou). The presence of Slavs may be corroborated by archaeological finds from Thessaly: Demetrias (hand made pottery and a fibula) and Central Macedonia, in Dion (fibula) and in Kouphia Petra in Edessa (a pair of fibulae found together with a knife and a Byzantine belt buckle in a burial)."
https://www2.rgzm.de/foreigners/cfm/themen/309/309_uk.cfm?Language=uk
1) "Bronze fibulae of the so-called Slavic (or Antic) type have been found in six sites in Greece: a random find is the fibula from Sparta, a surface find is the fibula from the early Byzantine settlement of Messene as well as the fibulae found in Demetrias and Dion. There are only two cases so far of fibulae found in a burial; unfortunately these complexes have been very poorly documented: a pair of fibula was found together with a belt buckle of the so-called Syracuse type in Kouphia Petra, Edessa, while in the Early Byzantine site of Thebes (Nea Anchialos, Thessaly) a fibula came up together with a Byzantine belt buckle in a grave chamber of one of the town’s basilicas. Fibulae of these type cannot be easily associated with the Byzantine population; it is known that the use of a pair of fibulae is a characteristic of the female costume of Germanic peoples but also of peoples of nomadic origin (Alans, Ants) in the region of Crimea and the Ucrainian steppe, but it is nevertheless impossible with the evidence available so far to identify more accurately the origin of persons using this type of fibulae in Greece."
2) "The Slavic tribes mentioned in the Byzantine sources contemporary or later (Miracula of Saint Demetrius, Chronicle of Monemvasia, the works of Theophanes and Constantine Porphyrogennetos) as living in areas of the Greek territory since the beginning of the 7th century are being found mainly in Macedonia, Epirus, Thessaly and the Peloponnese. Some of these settlements mentioned in the Byzantine written sources can be localized through archaeological evidence in the Peloponnese; this is the case in Olympia in the Western Peloponnese (cemetery with incineration urns); the presence of Slavs or “foreigners” can be postulated in other sites: Messene (a handmade pot and a fibula were found), in Corinth (a hand made pot found together with a knife and a Byzantine sword), Sparta (a bronze fibula) and Palaioboukouvina (hand made vessels and knives). (See also the report of Natalia Poulou-Papademetriou – Christina Katsougiannopoulou). The presence of Slavs may be corroborated by archaeological finds from Thessaly: Demetrias (hand made pottery and a fibula) and Central Macedonia, in Dion (fibula) and in Kouphia Petra in Edessa (a pair of fibulae found together with a knife and a Byzantine belt buckle in a burial)."
