Independent early Slavic tribes, distinguished by Byzantine sources from the kindred Antes, who raided and settled the Balkans from the 6th through 8th centuries and became one of the progenitors of the modern South Slavs.
Gradually settled and assimilated into the Balkans under Byzantine administration and Christianization, feeding into the later South Slavic peoples and polities (Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia).
Scholarly survey of early Slavic expansion covering the Antes, Sclaveni, and their successors.
Detailed account of Slavic settlement of the Balkans including the Sclaveni.