Tomislav of Croatia

Tomislav ( † about 928) was a Croatian Knez ( Prince ) and the first King of the Croats.

As a prince, he ruled from 910 over the küstenländische Croatia ( Primorska Hrvatska). After the merger with the Inland Croatia ( Hrvatska Panonska ), he became king of a united Croatian kingdom that remained independent until 1102.

In 925, Pope John X it said in a letter titled rex croatorum on ( King of the Croats ).

Life and work

Tomislav came from the Trpimirović Dynasty and was around the year 910 the successor of the Croatian Knez Muncimir (most likely his son ).

The Slavs had learned in Tomislav 's reign by the collapse of Hungarians in Pannonia for European history highly significant division: Was formerly the entire space between the Baltic Sea and the Aegean Sea inhabited by Slavic tribes, as were the fixing of Hungary, the South Slavs of the Western and Eastern Slavs separated.

Tomislav was his country, which (today ) Slavonia, large parts of Bosnia, Croatia and core parts of the Dalmatian coast included, successfully defend against Magyar attacks. His political plans but had other goals. He built up a force that supposedly 100,000 foot soldiers, 60,000 horsemen and 180 warships to have numbered according to De Imperio administrando of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII.

The Byzantines was Tomislav as an ally welcome, because they were able to take Bulgaria to the pliers. The Bulgarians themselves are not yet united in one state Serbs had subdued, leading to the first Serbian mass exodus ( as later against the Turks ) led to Croatia.

The treaty of alliance with Byzantium imputed Tomislav the entire Dalmatian coast, including the hitherto formally Byzantine port cities of Split, Trogir and Zadar, and the Adriatic Islands. Except for the split between the Frankish Empire and Venice, Istria now all Croats were united in the Kingdom Tomislav.

In 927 the Bulgarian Tsar Simeon I sent out one of his time powerful force to subdue the Croats. This attack, however, was successfully repelled and defeated the Bulgarians.

In the year 928 - about the time when the new Pope Leo VI. these efforts put an end to - Tomislav disappeared mysteriously and was declared dead after some time.

As the successor of King Tomislav in 928 ascended his younger brother Trpimir II to the Croatian throne.

Others

The Republic of Croatia gives foreign heads of state as the highest expression of appreciation for their contribution to the creation of a sovereign Croatia and for outstanding contributions to its international reputation and position as well as for the large contribution to the development of bilateral relations in 1995, donated King Tomislav Order (Croatian Velered King Tomislav s lentom i Velikom Danicom ).

Gallery

Oton Iveković: " The Coronation of King Tomislav " (1904 /05)

Tomislav Tomislav monument in degrees