Antes people
The musicians were a late antique tribe north of the Black Sea, which probably originally came from the southern Ukraine between Dnieper and Don, in the 6th century, however, appeared on the Balkan Peninsula. The frequently made in the earlier research assignment of technicians to the Eastern Slavs is controversial in modern research.
History
The name transformants ( Antes, Antai ) is probably is a foreign name and is non- Slavic origin. Their exact origin is unknown, the scattered sources speak but that they originally came from the region of present-day Ukraine.
The earliest mention of antennas can be found in Late Antiquity, the historian Jordanes. Thus, the Goths had in the 4th century defeated the antenna and killed their king Boz. By contrast, the Eastern Roman historian Prokopios of Caesarea reported that the musicians, which he describes as primitive and barbaric nomads who had no king; their loose tribal composite was " democratically " written, which was interpreted quite differently in modern research.
The formants are often referred to as ( early) Slavic tribe. Both Jordanes as well Prokopios describe the antenna and Slavs in nearly all things as equal. These statements are, however, considered critical in modern research; multiple origin hypotheses were put forward, such as a descent from the Alans or even a Germanic origin. A few years ago, voiced by Gottfried Schramm hypothesis on philological basis is that the transformants were originally ruled by an Iranian leadership that were exposed Germanic ( Gothic ) influences, later the people but was strongly influenced Slavic.
518 attacked the musicians first time independently on Eastern Roman territory. In the reign of Justinian then further attacks in the 30s of the 6th century are occupied; Justinian put in this context the Siegerbeinamen Anticus to. This was followed by clashes between designers and Sklavinen ( Slavs ) in the 540 (and again in the 580er ) years.
The transformants were paid 545 to allies and Ostrom received the deserted city Turris on the Danube. In return, they were a part of the Danube frontier against the invading barbarians. The antenna operated after being sedentary, farming and animal husbandry. Their society was organized patriarchal and tribal law. They fulfilled their contractual obligations to Ostrom, until they ( at 602) a victim of the expansion of the Avars were at the beginning of the 7th century, the subjugated the Slavs. The defeat of the antenna will be described by Theophylaktos Simokates, then they disappear from the sources.