Raška (state)
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Raška (Serbian: Рашка) (alternative spellings have included Raschka, Rascia and Rassa) was the central and most successful medieval Serbian state (or župa, area ruled by a župan) that unified neighboring Serbian tribes into the main medieval Serbian state in Balkans.
[edit] History
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos describes Raška (Rascia) in De Administrando Imperio as being settled by Serbs at the start of the 7th century. Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos writes in De Administrando Imperio that the Serbs received in Rascia/Raška, Zachumlie/Zahumlje, Trebounia/Travunia, Zeta/Duklja, Bosnia/Bosna and Pagania/Paganija.
The House of Vlastimirović, (named for Knez Vlastimir, who was the great great grandson of the Unknown Archont who led the Serbs to the Balkans from White Serbia (modern day Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine) during the reign of Byzantine emperor Heraclius somewhere between 610 - 641) ruled from Raška.
Coat of Arms Rasca:http://www.rastko.org.yu/kosovo/istorija/sanu/grb4.jpg
From the early 7th century, the history of Raška becomes intimately bound with the history of the Serb House of Vlastimirović.
[edit] Name theory
State of Raška was named after Raška River in the present-day south-western Serbia. It is thought that Sarmatian Serboi, an ancient tribe from Caucasus that probably gave its name to the Slavic Serbs, left their traces around the river Volga (Araxes in Greek), which is also called "Rashki". This name is found wherever the name Serb is found in clusters.
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