Praedenecenti

Praedenecenti was an early medieval Slavic tribe, mentioned only with that name in the Royal Frankish Annals relating to Frankish-Bulgar relations in 822–824. They lived "in Dacia, adjacent to the Danube near the Bulgarian border". In 824, they are mentioned as having been in conflict with the Bulgars.[1] They secretly met the Frankish emperor at Aachen and requested help regarding Bulgar aggression.[1] The Annals problematically states that their name was the common name of the Obodrites, a tribe which lived much further north near the Baltic Sea; some historians believe Obodrites had migrated to the south.[1][2] According to Pavel Jozef Šafařík[3] and Joachim Lelewel[4] they were the Braničevci (in what is today Serbia). S. Oța believes that they are the same as the Merehani, and put their territory in the Banat.[5] I. Boba connected the tribe with the Merehani, who according to him are south Moravians.[2] Their ethnonym is Slavic.[6]

“ Caeterum legatos Abodritorum, qui vulgo Praedenecenti vocantur et contermini Bulgaris Daciam Danubio adiacentem incolunt, qui et ipsi adventare nuntiabantur ”

References

  1. 1 2 3 Charles R. Bowlus (20 January 1995). Franks, Moravians, and Magyars: The Struggle for the Middle Danube, 788-907. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 92–. ISBN 978-0-8122-3276-9.
  2. 1 2 Florin Curta (31 August 2006). Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250. Cambridge University Press. pp. 158–. ISBN 978-0-521-81539-0.
  3. ↑ Pavel Jozef Šafařík (1837). Slowanské Starožitnosti. tiskem J. Spurného. p. 612.
  4. ↑ Joachim Lelewel (1832). Géographie du moyen âge. Chez Ve et J. Pilliet. p. 103. ... qui existe encore à l'orient de l'embouchure, regardant les ruines de l'ancien Brandiz, ville d'une ancienne peuplade slave Branitzevtzi, Branitschevtzî , que les latins appelaient Praedecenti, Prœdevecenti , Praedenescenti
  5. ↑ Silviu Oța (28 October 2014). The Mortuary Archaeology of the Medieval Banat (10th-14th Centuries). BRILL. pp. 18–. ISBN 978-90-04-28157-8.
  6. ↑ Hanswilhelm Haefs (2004). Ortsnamen und Ortsgeschichten in Schleswig-Holstein: zunebst dem reichhaltigen slawischen Ortsnamenmaterial und den dänischen Einflüssen auf Fehmarn und Lauenburg, Helgoland und Nordfriesland : woraus sich Anmerkungen zur Landesgeschichte ergeben. BoD – Books on Demand. pp. 179–. ISBN 978-3-8334-0509-9.
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