[43] Cedrenus, vol. i., § 1019, in Migne, vol. 121.
[44] The name Rascia is generally used by old historians as synonymous for Servia, and is derived from the river Raška in Old Servia.
[45] Num Ragusini ab omni jure Veneto a saec. X usque ad saec. XIV immunes fuerunt, thesis by the Abbé Paul Pisani, Paris, 1893, cap. ii.
[46] According to Johannes Diaconus, the expedition started in the seventh year of Orseolo’s reign, which would be the year 998; but Monticolo, who edits that writer in his Cronache Antichissime (p. 156, note 1), observes that Diaconus says that he only heard the news of the victory when the Emperor Otho III. came to Pavia in his third descent into Italy, i.e. July 1000.
[47] The name Beograd or Belgrad, i.e. white city, is a very common one in Slavonic lands.
[48] “Seque suosque Orseolo Venetoque nomini dedunt.” Sabellico, Historia rerum Venetarum, Dec. I. lib. iv. cap. 3.
[49] This pseudonym is an anagram for Sebastianus Slade de Ragusa; Slade is Slavonic for sweets = dolci.
[50] MS. in the Museo Correr at Venice, quoted by Pisani, op. cit., introd. There is a copy at Zara and one at Ragusa.
[51] Regno degli Slavi.
[52] Chronica Ragusina, edit. South-Slav. Acad., p. 272.