%0 Journal Article %T SKLAVINIAI AND ETHNIC ADJECTIVES: A CLARIFICATION %A Curta %A Florin %J Byzantion nea hell¨¢s %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-84712011000100005 %X it has been recently claimed that the first reference to sklavinia as a territory inhabited primarily by slavs is to be found in theophanes confessor. a particular passage in theophylact simocatta in which the word appears has been supposedly mistranslated. in reality, the passage in question contains a reference to sklavinia at least 150 years older than the chronographia of theophanes. %K theophlyact simocatta %K slavs %K sklavinia %K vita willibaldi. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-84712011000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en