298) FEEDBACK: historical: kingdom of zeta

[Brownbeard]

historical: kingdom of zeta

The province of zeta is under byzantine rule, i checked my history book and here is the chronology of events for this province

-prior to 1035. - under byzantine rule
-duke bojislav(1035.-1050.)* - sometime during his era he overthrew byzantine rule and became independent
-mihajlo(1050.-1082.)* - pope grgur VII (george VII in english?) gives him the title king of zeta
-bodin(1085.-1101.)* - expanded his realm on rashka and a part of bosnia, after his death byzantium ruled duklja(zeta)
-12.ct - rashka takes over zeta from the byzantines

*reign years, birthdates unknown

- anyway, there should be a mihajlo, king of zeta, count of zeta in 1066. who is not a vassal of byzantium. but, i guess adding a new kingdom that would never again resurface is rather complicated, duklja should just be made an independent county, or perhaps given the title duke of rashka for the time being, since the two were closely bound in that era

 

[kurtbrian]

Can Others confirm this?

If you can dig up some online information to back your claims it would be greatly increase your chances of it being changed.

 

[Solmyr]

Here is a list of rulers of Zeta (also called Dioclea or Duklja):
http://www.hostkingdom.net/westbalk.html#Montenegro

Some info on Duklja:
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Dioclea

More (scroll down for info on Zeta):
http://www.serbianna.com/features/entry_of_slavs/serbia1.shtml

 

[Cat Lord]

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[King]

As near as I can tell Stefan did break ties with Byzantium, but his son Mihailo then came back into Byzantium orbit, accepting titles from them in 1052. It was only in 1071 when Mihailo committed troops into Macedonia that the final breach with Byzantium happened. He then accepted the papal crown from Gregory VI around 1074.