Emily Stehr

Interesting (but Incomplete) History of Indigenous Peoples of the Caucasus Region Emily Stehr

Interesting (but Incomplete) History of Indigenous Peoples of the Caucasus RegionEmile de Laveleye; The Balkan Peninsula; TF Unwin; 1887Emile de Laveleye writes: "At the fall of the empire came the Goths, then the Avars, who, for two centuries, burned and massacred, and turned the whole country into a desert. They besieged Constantinople in the time of the Emperor Heraclius; he drove them back, and demanded the help of the Slav tribes inhabiting Pannonia, beyond the Danube, to conquer them completely. In 630 the Croats began to occupy the present Croatia, Slavonia, and the north of Bosnia; and in 640 the Servians, of the same race and language, exterminated the Avars and peopled Servia, Southern Bosnia, Montenegro, and Dalmatia. The ethnic situation which exists to-day dates from this epoch."