Peoples & MigrationThe 7th century

Peoples & Migration in the 7th century

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 7th century — 5 of them, drawn from 5 nations, running from 600 to 626. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
5
Nations
5
Earliest
600
Latest
626
Europe
4
North America
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. North America

    Jamaica

    Taino settlement of Xaymaca

    Arawak-speaking peoples settle the island they call Xaymaca, building villages led by caciques and farming cassava and corn.

    Era: Xaymaca: The Taino Island

    Sources: Columbus and the Taino · Library of Congress, Jamaica: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  2. Europe

    Kosovo

    Slavic settlement of the interior

    As the Danube frontier collapsed, Slavic peoples settled widely across the Balkan interior under and after Byzantine authority, transforming the population of the future Kosovo.

    Era: Ancient Dardania, Rome and Byzantium

    Sources: History of Kosovo (ancient Dardania to the medieval period) · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  3. Europe

    North Macedonia

    Slavic settlement of the region

    Slavic tribes migrated into the Macedonian interior from the sixth century, transforming the population of the region and laying the basis for its later Slavic-speaking identity.

    Era: Slavic Settlement, Tsar Samuel and the Ohrid Archbishopric

    Sources: Macedonia (region, Europe): Map, History & Facts · Encyclopaedia Britannica, North Macedonia: History (Ancient, Ottoman, Yugoslav) · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  4. Europe

    Slovenia

    Slavic settlement of the eastern Alps

    Slavic peoples migrated into the eastern Alpine valleys after the fall of Roman authority, becoming the ancestors of the Slovenes and establishing the linguistic foundation of the later nation.

    Era: Carantania and the Slavic Settlement of the Eastern Alps

    Sources: Our past · Slovenia.si (Government Communication Office), History of Slovenia · Government of Slovenia (gov.si)

  5. Europe

    Croatia

    Slavic settlement and the coming of the Croats

    Avar and Slavic invasions destroyed the Roman provincial order, including the capital Salona; the Croats settled the former provinces of Dalmatia and Pannonia and gradually organised duchies of their own.

    Era: Roman Dalmatia, Pannonia and the Coming of the Croats

    Sources: Croatia: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Croatia in Europe through the Ages: Development of the State · Croatia.eu (Miroslav Krleza Institute of Lexicography)