[183] From Astaria, a mediæval Latin word meaning a flat tract of seacoast. In Du Cange “maritima, campus planus mari adjacens.”
[184] Mentioned in 1254.
[185] Gelcich, I Conti di Tuhelj, p. 22.
[186] In 1331 a request was made to the King of Servia “de implorando ab eo castrum de Prisren in custodia, pro securitate mercatorum nostrorum conversantium in Prisren,” but it was refused (Gelcich, I Conti di Tuhelj, p. 23).
[187] Near Petrovoselo.
[188] Jireček, op. cit., pp. 13, 14.
[189] For the Paulicians, see Conybeare’s Key of Truth, and Bury’s edition of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, vol. vi., Appendix 6, p. 540.
[190] Jireček, Geschichte der Bulgaren, pp. 176 sqq.
[191] Theiner, Mon. Slav. Mer., i. p. 20.
[192] Klaić, op. cit., iii, iv, v, vii, and viii.