{"slug": "south-slavs", "label": "South Slavs", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Slavs", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273824", "qid": "Q273824", "description": "subgroup of Slavic peoples who speak the South Slavic languages", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [594, 1771], "span_label": ["594 CE", "1771 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "looting", "label": "Looting", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "peloponnese", "label": "Peloponnese", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lombards", "label": "Lombards", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "muslim", "label": "Muslim", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thessaloniki", "label": "Thessaloniki", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "muawiyah-i", "label": "Muawiyah I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "yazid-i", "label": "Yazid I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "moesia", "label": "Moesia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "dobruja", "label": "Dobruja", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 594, "year_label": "594 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Balkan Campaign: The Slavs invade the Byzantine provinces of Moesia and Macedonia again; during their pillaging the towns of Aquis, Scupi and Zaldapa in Dobruja are destroyed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364756331#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "594", "revid": 1364756331, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 599, "year_label": "599 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Callinicus, governor (exarch) of Ravenna, repulses attacks of the South Slavs in Istria (Croatia). The region is pillaged, but the Byzantines drive them all out.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364752063#Europe", "title": "599", "revid": 1364752063, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 676, "year_label": "676 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Siege of Constantinople: Caliph Muawiyah I sends his son Yazid with Muslim reinforcements to Constantinople. At the same time, the Byzantines have to face a Slavic attack on Thessaloniki and Lombard attacks in Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365938815#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "676", "revid": 1365938815, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 805, "year_label": "805 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Siege of Patras: Local Slavic tribes of the Peloponnese lay siege to the city of Patras (modern Greece), with aid from an Arab fleet. A Byzantine relief army under Skleros, military governor (strategos) from Corinth, is sent and retakes the city. The captured Slavs in Patras are made slaves, and a church is dedicated to St. Andrew.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361734873#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "805", "revid": 1361734873, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 807, "year_label": "807 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Siege of Patras: This marks the end of independent rule by the South Slavs in the Peloponnese (or 805).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342124762#Europe", "title": "807", "revid": 1342124762, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1771, "year_label": "1771 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Slovene literature: István Küzmics, the Hungarian Slovene writer and evangelical pastor, publishes (in Halle) the Nouvi Zákon, a translation of the New Testament into the Prekmurje Slovene language, with discrete South Slavic artwork.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363214109#Date_unknown", "title": "1771", "revid": 1363214109, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}]}