'Časlav Klonimirović Vlastimirović' (
Serbian Cyrillic: ''Часлав Клонимировић'') was the ruler (''
Knez/
Župan'') of
Serbia. He ruled from
927 until his death in
950.
Časlav was the son of
Klonimir, grandson of
Strojimir, and the last and the most powerful of the descendants of the
Unknown Archont.
He liberated the central Serbian tribes from
Bulgarian empire, after the death of
Simeon I in
927. He concluded a voluntary confederation with the chiefs of
Bosnia that brought them out of
Croatia's control. Together with
Zahumlje,
Pagania,
Travunia,
Zeta (
Duklja) and
Raška, Časlav established a Serb state that encompassed the shores of the
Adriatic Sea, the Sava river and the Morava river valley as well as today's northern Albania. Česlav was, hovewer, obliged to defend the dependent banat, or district, of Bosnia from an incursion of the Magyars. According to ''
Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja'', Časlav was killed in battle against Magyars.
After Časlav's death, the
Bulgars and
Byzantium took advantage of the discord caused by the power vacuum, and restored their control of most of Časlav's domain, while the chiefs of Bosnia declared independence and dissolved into independent statelets.
External links
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'The Catholic Encyclopedia'
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