ioan assen
08-16-2012, 09:16 PM
So lets discuss the Serboi name.
The Serboi are described as the slaves of the Roman (Byzantine) emperor in De Administrando Imperio, which in latin is SERVES. The books in latin.
Dushan's Code articles touched on the status in society and in court of clergy, nobility, commoners, SERFS, SLAVES, Albanians and Vlachs, and foreigners. Strikingly the code talks about Albanians and Vlachs, but when talking about Serboi it equals them with slaves. Serfs are just people that serviced the nobility so they are slaves again with more rights. Serbia was also called Servia. Could their ethnonym derive from the latin slave because they were always someones slaves? Remember that till Dushan the rule over them switched between Bulgarians, Greeks and Croats. So it prooves they were inert mass over which the three main groups ruled. Even Dushan (3/4 Bulgarian) went on calling them slaves and serfs.
The Serboi are described as the slaves of the Roman (Byzantine) emperor in De Administrando Imperio, which in latin is SERVES. The books in latin.
Dushan's Code articles touched on the status in society and in court of clergy, nobility, commoners, SERFS, SLAVES, Albanians and Vlachs, and foreigners. Strikingly the code talks about Albanians and Vlachs, but when talking about Serboi it equals them with slaves. Serfs are just people that serviced the nobility so they are slaves again with more rights. Serbia was also called Servia. Could their ethnonym derive from the latin slave because they were always someones slaves? Remember that till Dushan the rule over them switched between Bulgarians, Greeks and Croats. So it prooves they were inert mass over which the three main groups ruled. Even Dushan (3/4 Bulgarian) went on calling them slaves and serfs.