Makedonska, Epirotesalska I Peloponeska grupa Slovena - primer neprerastanja plemenskog saveza u ranu državu
Macedonian, Epirot-thessalian And Peloponnesian Groups Of Slavs - an Example Of Tribal League’s Failing To Develop Into An Early State

Summary/Abstract: These groups of the South Slavic people represent the most southern Slavic ethnic group that inhabited the Balkan Peninsula during the mass colonization. During the next centuries a part of them took part in the ethnogenesis of the Macedonian and Bulgarian peoples, and a part of them was assimilated into the regional, mostly Greek population. Although during the 7th century they united into strong tribal leagues, and although they already had an established higher ruling class as well as their own Slavic dukes, strong Byzantine military campaigns against them made them accept the Byzantine rule and finally crushed their resistance and aspirations for independence, i.e., disrupted their previous natural movement towards the creation of their own state. Their history between the 7th and 9th century clearly shows that the transformation of a strong tribal league into an early state is not always and is not just an endogenous process, but rather the process that in the concrete historical circumstances can have its epilogue precisely under the more predominant influence of the exogenous factors.

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