Events from the 10th century in, or regarding, Historic Serbia or Serbs.
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The following, of the Vlastimirović dynasty, ruled Serbia:
- 914–917
- Byzantines sends envoys to Serbs and Magyars regarding an alliance against the Bulgarians.
- Prince Petar of Serbia annexes Bosnia and Pagania.
- Prince Petar comes into conflict with Michael of Zahumlje.
- Michael warns the Bulgarians about the Serbian-Byzantine alliance.
- 917
- End of 20-year-peace between Serbia and Bulgaria;
- Prince Petar defends an attack by his cousin and Bulgarian ally Pavle.
- Prince Petar is captured by Bulgarian generals, sent to jail in Bulgaria, and dies within a year.
- Pavle becomes the Serbian Prince.
- 920
- Prince Pavle defends an attack by his cousin and Byzantine ally Zaharija.
- Zaharija is handed over to Symeon of Bulgaria.
- Prince Pavle switches to Byzantine support.
- 921–922
- Zaharija is dispatched with Bulgarian troops and there is no more mention of Pavle.
- Zaharija becomes the Serbian Prince.
- Zaharija reavows his loyalty to the Byzantine Empire.
- 923
- Zaharija united several Slav tribes along the common border to revolt against Bulgaria. Symeon sent an insufficient number of troops to quell the rebels; several Bulgarian generals were killed, their heads and weapons were sent to Constantinople by Zaharija as gifts and signs of loyalty
- 924
- Časlav is dispatched with Bulgarian troops, forcing Zaharija into exile in Croatia.
- Symeon summons the Serbian nobility, to pay homage to their new Prince, Časlav, but instead of instating him, Symeon takes them captive, annexing Serbia.
- 925
- 893–927
- 927
- 927 or 933
- Časlav returns to Serbia.
- Časlav reorganized and repopulated the principality with the Byzantine help.
- before 960
- The Magyars invade Bosnia.
- Časlav and his army defeats the Magyars. Kisa, the Magyar Duke, is killed by Tihomir. (see Battle of Drina)
- Tihomir receives the Drina župania and marries the daughter of Časlav.
- after 960
- Kisa's widow returns with an army. Časlav is captured and killed.
- Tihomir becomes the Serbian Prince.
- 961–962
- Saqaliba (Slavs) in the mountainous regions of Central Balkans, "west of the Bulgarians and east from the other Slavs (Croats)", have the reputation of being "the most courageous and violent".
- 968–971
- 969–971
- Serbia is conquered by the Byzantines.
- 971–976
- ca. 990
- 992
- 998
- Rascia and Bosnia is annexed by Bulgaria.
- early 10th century
- 968–1018
- 10th- or 11th century
Ostrogorsky 1956, pp. 273–5.
Byzantium in the year 1000, p. 121.