Raška (state)
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Raška (Serbian: Рашка; alternative spellings have included Raschka, Rascia and Rassa) was the central and most successful medieval Serbian state (or župa, area ruled by a župan) that unified neighboring Serbian tribes into a main medieval Serbian state in the Balkans.
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[edit] History
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos describes Raška (Rascia) in De Administrando Imperio as being settled by Serbs at the start of the 7th century. Also in De Administrando Imperio, he wrote that the Serbs resided in Zachumlie (Zahumlje), Trebounia (Travunia), the Zeta (Duklja), Bosnia (Bosna) and Pagania (Paganija).
The House of Vlastimirović, (named for Knez Vlastimir, who was the great-great-grandson of the Unknown Archont who led the Serbs to the Balkans from White Serbia) ruled from Raška.
From the early 7th century, the history of Raška becomes intimately bound with the history of the Serb House of Vlastimirović.
[edit] Name theory
The state of Raška was named after the Raška River in present-day south-western Serbia. It is thought that Sarmatian Serboi, an ancient tribe from the Caucasus that probably gave its name to the Slavic Serbs, left their traces around the river Volga (Araxes in Greek), which is also called "Rashki". This name is found wherever the name Serb is found in clusters.
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