<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Skylitzes" class="extiw" title="en:Madrid Skylitzes">Skyllitzes Matritensis</a>, fol. 96r.
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<ul><li>Delegation of Croats and Serbs to the Byzantine Emperor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_I" class="extiw" title="en:Basil I">Basil I</a>.</li></ul><dl><dd>Text from the Chronicle of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Skylitzes" class="extiw" title="en:John Skylitzes">John Skylitzes</a>: "... When the aforementioned races of Scyths, the Croats, Serbs and the rest of them saw what had happened in Dalmatia as a result of Roman intervention, they sent delegates to emperor requesting to be brought into subjection under Roman rule. This seemed to emperor to be a reasonable request;  he received them with kindliness, and they all became subjects of the Roman government and were given governors of their own race and kin. ..." (Translated by John Wortley, in: <i>John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057: Translation and Notes</i>, p. 143)</dd></dl><p>References:
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<ul><li>Ioannis Scylitzae Synopsis Historiarum. Editio Princeps. Rec. Ioannes Thurn, p. 146-147, in: <i><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Fontium_Historiae_Byzantinae" class="extiw" title="de:Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae">Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae</a> 5 Series Berolinensis</i>, 1973</li>
<li><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasiliki_Tsamakda" class="extiw" title="de:Vasiliki Tsamakda">Tsamakda V.</a>: <i>The illustrated chronicle of Ioannes Skylitzes in Madrid</i>, p. 131-132</li>
<li>Grabar A., Manoussacas M.: <i>L'illustration du manuscript de Skylitzes de Madrid</i>, p. 60</li></ul>
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