СПРЕЧУВАЈЌИ ЈА БУГАРСКАТА ЕКСПАНЗИЈА – ВИЗАНТИСКАТА ДИПЛОМАТИЈА СПРЕМА МАКЕДОНСКИТЕ СКЛАВИНИИ ВО СРЕДИНАТА НА IX ВЕК
PREVENTING BULGARIAN EXPANSION - BYZANTINE DIPLOMACY AGAINST MACEDONIAN SCLAVINES IN THE MIDDLE OF IX CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: With the signing of the 30-year Treaty in 816, Byzantium and Bulgaria not only determined their mutual border in the Balkans, but also the area of their influence. According to the sources, the Macedonian Sklaviniai became an integral part of the byzantine political and cultural sphere. The lack of relevant information that would testify the existence of byzantine military-administrative districts in this part of the Peninsula suggests that the supremacy of the basileus over these Sklavinias had been apparently established on a different basis. Actually, the source material indicates that the pacification of the Slavic population from these regions and their transformation in to loyal subjects was achieved with the implementation of several non-military measures: administrative and religious. However, the events from the middle of the Ninth century inform that they were only partially successful. In the Slavic regions near Thessalonica and the Via-Eghnatia road where the influence of the Byzantine State and civilization was quite strong, and the imperial army over a long period present and numerous, these measures proved to be effective. North of these territories, where the Byzantine influence among the local Slavic population had only just advanced in such intensity and on such scale, and the imperial military presence was almost non-existent, they were insufficient to prevent the southwestern expansion of the Bulgarian state.

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