much findings; fibulae and pottery found at Roman forts point at Serb characteristics and thus could have been either part of the Byzantine foedorati or a fraction of the early invading Slavs who upon organizing in their refuge of the Dinarides, formed the ethnogenesis of Serbs and were pardoned by the Byzantine Empire after acknowledging their suzerainty. Administrative units Moesia In ancient geographical sources, Moesia was bounded to the south by the Balkans (Haemus) and Šar mountain (Scardus, Scordus, Scodrus) mountains, to the west by the Drina river (Drinus), on the north by the Danube and on the east by the Euxine (Black Sea). The region was inhabited chiefly by Thracian, Dacian and Illyrian peoples. The region took its name from the Moesi, a Thraco-Dacian tribe that lived there before the Roman conquest 75 BC-c. 29 BC and formally became a Roman province of that name some years later (by 6 AD). Cities and towns, in Moesia Superior (at times Macedonia/ Dardania): Ulpiana (modern Lipljan) Municipium Dardanicum Dardapara Naissus, (modern Nis, Nysus in the Byzantine era) Theranda (modern Prizren) Vicianum (modern Vučitrn) Vindenis Velanis Pannonia The cities and towns in Pannonia, located in modern Serbia, were: Acumincum (Stari Slankamen) Bassianae (Donji Petrovci) Bononia (Banoštor) Burgenae (Novi Banovci) Cusum (Petrovaradin) Rittium (Surduk) Singidunum (Beograd) Sirmium (Sremska Mitrovica) Taurunum (Zemun) Cultures and tribes See also List of Greek and Latin place names in Serbia Illyro-Roman Thraco-Roman References Sources Serbia Serbia