Slavs Timeline

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c. 1500 BCE
Proto-Slavic people are active within an area that stretched roughly from western Poland to the Dnieper River in Belarus.
531 CE - 534 CE
Byzantine forces engaged in a series of military campaigns against the Slavs and other groups.
c. 550 CE
The Slavs advance towards Thessalonica, entering the region of the Hebrus River and the Thracian coast. Thessalonica is saved by the Roman army.
c. 580 CE
The Slavs and the Avars overwhelm Greece, Thrace and Thessaly.
585 CE
The Slavs march on to Constantinople, they are driven off by the Roman defence.
c. 623 CE - 658 CE
Reign of Samo, first recorded king of the Slavs.
626 CE
A coalition of Persians, Slavs, Avars and Bulgars unsuccessfully lays siege to Constantinople.
631 CE
Samo defeats the Franks during the Battle of Wogastisburg.