{"slug": "slavic-peoples", "label": "Slavic peoples", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_peoples", "wikidata": null, "qid": null, "description": null, "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [512, 1157], "span_label": ["512 CE", "1157 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "pannonian-avars", "label": "Pannonian Avars", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "danube", "label": "Danube", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "bulgars", "label": "Bulgars", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "balkans", "label": "Balkans", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "human-migration", "label": "Human migration", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lombards", "label": "Lombards", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "franks", "label": "Franks", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "slovakia", "label": "Slovakia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "moravia", "label": "Moravia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "elbe", "label": "Elbe", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "justinian-i", "label": "Justinian I", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 512, "year_label": "512 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Anastasius I constructs a wall from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, to protect Constantinople from raiding Bulgars and Slavs.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369170659#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "512", "revid": 1369170659, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 537, "year_label": "537 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 9", "text": "April 9 – Belisarius receives his promised reinforcements: 1,600 cavalry, mostly of Hunnic or Slavic origin and expert bowmen. Despite shortages, he starts raids against the Gothic camps and Vitiges is forced into a stalemate.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370992976#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "537", "revid": 1370992976, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 539, "year_label": "539 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Justinian I becomes alarmed by renewed barbarian incursions across the Danube frontier from the Slavs, the Bulgars, the Gepids, and the Avars.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364754969#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "539", "revid": 1364754969, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 558, "year_label": "558 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "The Avars and the Slavs occupy the Hungarian Plain on the Balkans. The threat of Avar domination prompts the Lombards to migrate to Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364749209#Europe", "title": "558", "revid": 1364749209, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 568, "year_label": "568 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Byzantines abandon present-day Lombardy and Tuscany, to establish a frontier march in the hills south of Ravenna (still known as Le Marche). Bavarians, Sarmatians, Saxons and Taifali, join the invasion en route. As they advance, the vacuum left behind them on the Balkan Peninsula is filled by Avars, Bulgars and Slavs.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751316#Europe", "title": "568", "revid": 1364751316, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 580, "year_label": "580 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Slavs begin to migrate into the Balkan Peninsula. The Avars, under King (khagan) Bayan I, invade the Lower Danube (modern Bulgaria).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364747518#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "580", "revid": 1364747518, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 623, "year_label": "623 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Samo, reputedly a Frankish merchant, is elected king of the Slavs in Moravia, Slovakia and Lower Austria. A string of victories over the Avars proves his utilitas (usefulness) to his subjects, and he secures the throne to establish his own kingdom, which stretches from the upper Elbe to the Danube.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364763007#Europe", "title": "623", "revid": 1364763007, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 658, "year_label": "658 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "The confederation of Slavic tribes falls apart after the death of King Samo. A Slav principality is formed from the kingdom's remnants in Carinthia (modern Austria), and the Avars capture most of its territory in Hungary (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369710051#Europe", "title": "658", "revid": 1369710051, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1157, "year_label": "1157 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Albert I of Brandenburg begins his ruthless program to pacify the Slavic region.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366532578#Events", "title": "1157", "revid": 1366532578, "section": "Events"}}]}