He was the son of the emperor Leo VI and his fourth wife, Zoe Karbonopsina, and the nephew of his predecessor, the emperor Alexander.
Kōnstantinos VII Porphyrogennētos 17–18 May 905 – 9 November 959) was the fourth Emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, reigning from 913 to 959. De administrando imperio does not contain valuable data on the Slavic past of the Dioclea Principality, but only general views of Dioclea accentuating its geographical characteristics.Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos or Porphyrogenitus ("the Purple-born", that is, born in the porphyry (a hard, purple-colored, decorative stone) paneled imperial bed chambers Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Ζ΄ Πορφυρογέννητος, translit. The author reveals new data in terms of the names of those towns, which in certain cases point to where they could now be possibly located.
The most concrete datum in chapter 35 (Of the Diocletians and of the country they now dwell in) refers to the list of Dioclean towns which have not been located even today. This is then followed by an attempt to specify the data from chapter 30 (The story of the province of Dalmatia) about Dioclea’s borders being given arbitrarily in relation to the Byzantine cities and the neighbouring Slavic principalities. In the beginning, he adresses the narrative given in chapter 29 (Of Dalmatia and of the adjacent nations in it) concerning the emperor Diocletian building ancient Dioclea, after which the inhabitants of this principality were named Dioklhtianoi. Author(s): Novaković Bojan Journal: Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta ISSN 0584-9888 Volume: 2012 Issue: 49 Start page: 75 Date: 2012 VIEW PDF DOWNLOAD PDF Original page Keywords: nema ABSTRACT In this text the author analyzes the data on the Slavic Principality of Dioclea found in De administrando imperio, the work by the Byzantine emperor and writer Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos.
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