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The term "Triballians" appears frequently in Eastern Roman and other European works of the Middle Ages, referring exclusively to Serbs.
Some of these authors clearly explain that "Triballian" is a Hellenic synonym to "Serbian" and that Triballi were a Thracian tribe that received influences from Celts, Scythians and Illyrians.
(Author of this thread as well as TA community agrees that Serbs have a lot of Southern admixture and DNA therefore that previous statement is agreeable)
Niketas Choniates (famous Roman historians in Emperors Court) (or Acominatus, 1155–1215 or-16) in his history about Emperor Ioannes Komnenos: "... Shortly after this, he campaigned against the nation of Triballians (whom someone may call Serbians as well) ..."
or the much later Demetrios Chalkondyles (1423–1511), referring to an Islamized Christian noble: "... This Mahmud, son of Michael, is Triballian, which means Serbian, by his mother, and Greek by his father." or Mehmed the Conqueror when referring to the plundering of Serbia.
(Again, it is a well known fact that Mara Branković (Serb) is a mother of first Islamic Emperor of Constantinople Mehmed II)
In the 15th century, a coat of arms of "Tribalia", depicting a wild boar with an arrow pierced through the head (see Boars in heraldry), appeared in the supposed Coat of Arms of Emperor Stefan Dušan 'the Mighty' (r. 1331–1355). The motif had, in 1415, been used as the Coat of Arms of the Serbian Despotate and is recalled in one of Stefan Lazarević's personal Seals, according to the paper Сабор у Констанци. Pavao Ritter Vitezović also depicts "Triballia" with the same motif in 1701 and Hristofor Zhefarovich again in 1741.
With the beginning of the First Serbian Uprising, the Parliament adopted the Serbian Coat of Arms in 1805, their official seal depicted the heraldic emblems of Serbia and Tribalia.
So there goes the Myth about Slavic migrations on Balkans and that Serbs are foreigners on "Albanian territory of Nish etc..."
Because Serbs are Thraco-Illyrians with Scythian influence from Poland and Ukraine.
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