Slavic warriors

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ruler of Moravia

Grand Duke of Moravia

Duke of Bohemia (9th century)

Duke of Bohemia

Duke of Great Moravia

Niklot or Nyklot (died August 1160) was a chief or prince of the Slavic Obotrites and an ancestor of the House of Mecklenburg. He became chief of the Obotrite confederacy, including the Kissini and the Circipani, between the years 1130 and 1131. He remained in this position until his death in 1160. At the same time he was Lord of (Herr zu) Schwerin, Quetzin and Malchow. For nearly 30 years he resisted Saxon princes, especially Henry the Lion during the Wendish Crusade.

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The Narentines were a South Slavic tribe noted as pirates on the Adriatic Sea in the 9th and 10th centuries. They occupied an area of southern Dalmatia centered at the river Neretva (). Named Narentani in Venetian sources, they were called Paganoi, "pagans", by the Greeks, as they were still pagan after the Christianization of the neighbouring tribes. They were fierce enemies of the Republic of Venice, attacking Venetian merchants and clergy traveling through the Adriatic, and even raiding close to Venice itself and defeating the doge several times. Venetian–Narentine peace treaties did not la

Prince of the Serbs

Duke of Croatia

Duke of Croatia

Vlastimir (, ; c. 805 – 851) was the prince of Serbia from c. 830 until c. 851. Little is known of his reign. He held Serbia during the growing threat posed by the neighbouring, hitherto peaceful, First Bulgarian Empire, which had expanded significantly toward Serbia.

Duke of Great Moravia

Duke of Croatia

Bulgarian ruler

Prince of Serbia

Duke of Croatia

Duke of Pannonia

thumb|Prince Popiel thumb|The Mouse Tower in Kruszwica, constructed in 1350, incorrectly associated with Popiel Prince Popiel ІІ was a legendary 9th-century ruler of two proto-Polish tribes, the Goplans and West Polans. He was the last member of the Popielids, a legendary dynasty before the Piasts. According to the chroniclers Gallus Anonymus, Jan Długosz, and Marcin Kromer, as a consequence of his bad rule he was deposed, besieged by his subjects, and eaten alive by mice in a tower in Kruszwica.

Prosigoj (, ) was a Serbian ruler believed to have ruled prior to 830. Serbia was a Slavic principality subject to the Byzantine Empire, located in the western Balkans, bordering with Bulgaria in the east. Mentioned in the De Administrando Imperio (DAI) from the mid-10th century, he succeeded his father Radoslav and was succeeded by his son Vlastimir (r. 830–851). left|thumb|Europe 814

Duke of Croatia

Duke of Croatia

prince of NItra

14th-century Bosnian nobleman

Duke of Croatia

Duke of Croatia

thumb|Before the attack on the Avars, the Friulian-Slavic army receives a blessing from Paulinus II Vojnomir, Voynomir or Vonomir I was a Slavic military commander in Frankish service, the duke of Slavs in Lower Pannonia, who ruled from c. 790 to c. 800 or from 791 to c. 810 over an area that corresponds to modern-day Slavonia, Croatia.

duke of Moravia

Duke of Croatia

Prince of Serbia

Boruth, also Borut (from , "fighter") or Borouth, (died about 750) was the first documented Slavic prince (Knyaz) of Carantania, ruling from about 740 until his death. He was one of the few pagan leaders of the Carantanians to convert to Christianity.

Serbian Prince

Daurentius () or Dauritas () was a Slavic (Sclaveni) chieftain in the 6th century. He seems to have been the supreme chief of a Slavic tribal confederation, which "fellow chiefs" were either subordinated to him or of a similar tribal rank and status as Daurentius.

Duke of Lower Pannonia

Strojimir (; ) was the co-ruler of the Serbian Principality alongside his two brothers Mutimir and Gojnik, from ca 851 to his and Gojnik's deposition in the 880s after an unsuccessful coup against the eldest Prince Mutimir (r. 851–891).

Duke of Croatia

Antes ruler

legendary ruler of Poland

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Miliduch or Miliduh (, , ; d. 806) was an Early Slavic ruler (duke) of the Sorbs, a Polabian Slavic ancestral tribe of modern Sorbs.

Čestibor () was a 9th-century King of the Sorbs. He was a vassal of Louis the German. In 856 he led the Sorbs into battle alongside King Louis against the Glomacze tribe, defeating them and putting them under German rule. Shortly after in 859, the Sorbs had risen against Čestibor and killed him, causing a rebellion against King Louis.

Panonian Slavic people

Dragovit (; ; ; died in 810;) was a pagan ruler (prince or chief) of the Veleti (; "king of the Wiltzes"). It is thought that Dragovit began his rule .

Ardagast or Radogost (Ancient Greek: Ἀρδάγαστος Ardagastos; Cyrillic: Ардагаст; fl. 584–597) was a 6th-century Sclaveni brigadier (chieftain), alongside Peiragastus/Peragastus (594), under rex Musokios, mentioned by Theophylact Simocatta.

Polish medium-cavalryman from before the 9th to 18th centuries

Miecław (; 10th/11th century – 1047) was a cup-bearer of king Mieszko II Lambert, who in c. 1038 had proclaimed independence of the state that he ruled, from the Duchy of Poland, beginning the rebellion that lasted until his death in 1047.

Caranthian duke

thumb | right | alt=Drawing of the battle of Brávellir. | Battle of Brávellir by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine. Bravlin (apparent Cyrillic: "Бравлин") was an apocryphal overlord of the Rus' who supposedly devastated all the Crimea from Kerch to Sougdaia in the last years of the 8th century but was paralyzed when he had entered the church of St. Stephen in Sougdaia.

Czimislav () was a 9th-century King of the Sorbs. The Saxons won a battle at Kesigesburg and Czimislav was killed in 840. He was part of the Colodici, a Sorbian sub-tribe.

Akameros (, )—his original name was probably Akamir—was the "archon of the Sclavenes of Belzetia" (), an autonomous South Slavic community in Central Greece under Byzantine sovereignty, in the late 8th century.

Musokios was a 6th-century Sclaveni rex that ruled around 593, during Maurice's Balkan campaigns, mentioned by Theophylact Simocatta.

medieval Slavic ruler, prince of the Slavic tribal confederation of the White Croats; he fell in 896 during an attack by Hungarian tribes near present-day Uzhhorod

Liudemuhls or Ljudemisl was a medieval Slavic duke, vassal to the Franks, who was in power in 823 in parts of Dalmatia known as the Duchy of the Croats.

Bohemian Prince

Mezamir (, ; 560) was the chieftain of the Antes, an early Slavic tribal confederation in Eastern Europe, believed to have been active around the year 560, at which time the Avar expanded further into Europe. He was the son of Idariz, and had a brother, Kelagast. Mezamir was recorded by Menander Protector (fl. 558–582). Mezamir was described as "powerful", and had most likely established a Slavic confederation sometime before the 560s, which initially thwarted the Avar khaganate. At this time, the Antes were subject to the Byzantine Empire, ruled by Justinian I (r. 527–565), with the supreme c

Klonimir (; ; ) was a Serbian prince of the Vlastimirović dynasty, and pretender to the throne of the Serbian Principality. His father and uncle, co-princes Strojimir and Gojnik, had been exiled to Bulgaria with their families after their eldest brother Mutimir had ousted them and taken the Serbian throne. Klonimir married a Bulgarian noblewoman chosen by Khan Boris I himself. She later gave birth to a son named Časlav. The descendants of the three Vlastimirović branches continued the feud over the Serbian throne which spanned over the century, and Klonimir returned to Serbia in ca. 896 and at

Liub (died 823; ), also known as Lub, was a grand prince of the Confederation of the Veleti, ruling from 810 to 823. He was the eldest son, and successor, of Dragovit. He had two sons, Milegast, and Cealadragus, with Milegast, as the eldest son, succeeding his throne.

Serbian prince