Sporoi (Greek: Σπόροι) or Spori was according to Eastern Roman scholar Procopius (500–560) the old name of the Antes and Sclaveni, two Early Slavic branches. Procopius stated that the Sclaveni and Antes spoke the same language, but he did not trace their common origin back to the Veneti (as per Jordanes) but to a people he called "Sporoi".[1] He derived the name from Greek σπείρω ("to sow"), because "they populated the land with scattered settlements".[2]
^Paul M. Barford (January 2001). The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe. Cornell University Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-8014-3977-3.
^Михайло Грушевський; Andrzej Poppe; Marta Skorupsky; Uliana M. Pasicznyk; Frank E. Sysyn (1997). History of Ukraine-Rus': From prehistory to the eleventh century. Kiyc Cius. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-895571-19-6.
Sporoi (Greek: Σπόροι) or Spori was according to Eastern Roman scholar Procopius (500–560) the old name of the Antes and Sclaveni, two Early Slavic branches...
single name in the remote past; for they were both called Sporoi in olden times". The name Sporoi derives from Greek σπείρω ("to sow"). He described them...
and the methods used by its proponents are considered pseudoscientific. Sporoi (Greek: Σπόροι) was according to Eastern Roman scholar Procopius (500–560)...
actually had a single name in the remote past; for they were both called Sporoi in olden times". Possibly the oldest mention of Slavs in historical writing...
with the ancient Venedi, Procopius states that they were both once called Sporoi. Jordanes and Procopius have been seen as invaluable sources in locating...
Slavs) (Proto-Balto-Slavic speakers) Proto-Slavs (Proto-Slavic speakers) Sporoi (also known as Vistula Veneti): A common ancestor of all Slavs, Proto-Slavs...
were ruled by the Spalaei. Francis Dvornik (1893–1975) believed that the Sporoi mentioned by Procopius (500–560) as being the old name of the Antes and...
"offspring", equating it with the δουλόσποροι "slave Sporoi" mentioned by Nonnus and Cosmas, where the Sporoi are the people Procopius mentions as the ancestors...
Niederle (1865–1944) connected the Serbs with both the Serboi and the later Sporoi. Where the White Serbs and the White Croats lived in the Middle Ages, and...
Vibius Sequester. In De Bello Gothico Procopius (500-565) uses the name Sporoi as an umbrella term for the Slavic tribes of Antes and Sclaveni, it is however...
reasons, it is also possible to be a corruption of the name of Drevlians. Sporoi, mentioned by Procopius Curta, Florin (2019). Eastern Europe in the Middle...
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