Rhynchinoi

The Rhynchines or Rhynchinoi (Greek: Ῥυγχίνοι) were a South Slavic (or Avaro-Slavic) tribe in the region of southern Macedonia in the 7th century. Their name probably derives from a local, unidentified river.^[1]

The tribe is attested in the Miracles of Saint Demetrius, a collection of stories related to the patron saint of Thessalonica, Saint Demetrius. According to the Miracles, in the mid-7th century the Rhynchines formed a sklavinia near the city, under a king named Perboundos. After the latter was arrested and executed by Byzantine authorities, the Rhynchines rose up and allied themselves with two other nearby sklaviniai, the Sagudates and the Drugubites, and launched an unsuccessful siege of Thessalonica.^[2]

References

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• Curta, Florin (2006), Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1250, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-81539-0 
• Stoianovich, Traian (1994), Balkan worlds: the first and last Europe, M.E. Sharpe, ISBN 978-1-56324-032-4