SKLAVINIAI AND ETHNIC ADJECTIVES: A CLARIFICATION

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.