Neka pitanja boravka Langobarda u Sloveniji

Abstract

The author analyzes the sources concerned with the motives and the time of the arrival of the Lombards in Slovenia. In his opinion they moved from Pannonia towards Italy in A.D. 568, having made an agreement with Byzantium. In this context the author offers a new interpretation of Procopius notes on the "Noric city" and on "fortifications in Pannonia", presents Ildigis's journey from what is now Slovakia to Italy, and suggests a new dating of Lombard archaeological finds in Slovenia, as well as of the famous princcly grave at Brežac near Buzet. The duchy of Friuli, extending onto the territory of the present-day Slovenia, was a Byzantine ally up to A.D. 602 when duke Gisulf, pressured by the Lombard king Agilulf, was forced to break the alliance with Byzantium and to recognize the Lombard king. Even afterwards the Lombards remained allied with the Avars and Slavs; hence the reports of Paulus Diaconus about hostilities, commonly placed in A.D. 611, in fact refer to A.D. 602. For later reports, from the years 663, 664 and 705, the author gives new explanations. Actual hostilities began as late as 737, upon the incursion of the duke of Friuli, Ratchis, into the present-day territory of Slovenia.