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Perbundos
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Perbundos (, Perboundos) was a 7th-century king of the Rhynchinoi, a Slavic group in what is modern Southern Macedonia. In ca. 675 he was taken prisoner by the Byzantine Empire due to his hostile intentions towards Thessalonica, and transported to Constantinople. Perbundos managed to escape, but was recaptured and executed, whereupon the Slavic tribes of Macedonia rose up and laid siege to Thessalonica. Perbundos is also called Prebond, his slavic noble men called him Prebond.

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Instance of
human
Gender
male
Occupation
aristocrat
Languages spoken
South Slavic
Noble title
knyaz
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date of death
0675-00-00
manner of death
capital punishment
date of birth
0650-00-00

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Perbundos (, Perboundos) was a 7th-century king of the Rhynchinoi, a Slavic group in what is modern Southern Macedonia. In ca. 675 he was taken prisoner by the Byzantine Empire due to his hostile intentions towards Thessalonica, and transported to Constantinople. Perbundos managed to escape, but was recaptured and executed, whereupon the Slavic tribes of Macedonia rose up and laid siege to Thessalonica. Perbundos is also called Prebond, his slavic noble men called him Prebond.

== Life == thumb|200px|right|Statue representing Perbundos (Prebond) in Skopje, [[North Macedonia]] Perbundos is attested only in the Miracles of Saint Demetrius, a 7th-century collection of homilies in praise of Saint Demetrius, the patron saint of Thessalonica, which provides much unique historical information about the collapse of Byzantine imperial authority and the Slavic settlement in the Balkans.

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