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* Nikola Ostojic wrote:''"Defeated and confederated by the Narantani from 642 to 999."''
* Nikola Ostojic wrote:''"Defeated and confederated by the Narantani from 642 to 999."''
'''Note''': The date of Korčula's being confederated by the Narantani has to be question. The Narantani which are referred today mainly as ''Neretljani'', were a nation of pirates. Firstly known as ''Arentanoi ,''<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OJPfAAAAMAAJ&q=arentanoi&dq=arentanoi&hl=en&ei=bMt2TYb7J4ugvQODuaGFBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBA The Age of the Dromon:] The Byzantine Navy ca. 500-1204 by John H. Pryor, Elizabeth & Jeffreys (p67)</ref> modern scholarly research now puts the time of the overall invasion of the Slavic tribes in the region to be much latter.<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6UbOtJcF8rQC&pg=PA212&dq=immigration+Slav+groups+in+Dalmatia+Danijel+Dzino&hl=en&ei=ONB2Tf7SA4vevQOYybjLBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Becoming Slav, Becoming Croat:] Identity Transformations in Post-Roman and Early Medieval Dalmatia by Danijel Dzino (p212).</ref> Archaeological evidence found in the old Roman city of ''Salon'' and artefacts found at the Old Croatian grave sites in Dalmatia (during recent excavations) confirms this. The arrival of the Slavs has been now placed to be more in the region of 8th ''or'' even early 9th century.
'''Note''': The date of Korčula's being confederated by the Narantani has to be question. The Narantani which are referred today mainly as ''Neretljani'', were a nation of pirates. Firstly known as ''Arentanoi ,''<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OJPfAAAAMAAJ&q=arentanoi&dq=arentanoi&hl=en&ei=bMt2TYb7J4ugvQODuaGFBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBA The Age of the Dromon:] The Byzantine Navy ca. 500-1204 by John H. Pryor, Elizabeth & Jeffreys (p67)</ref> modern scholarly research now puts the time of the overall invasion of the Slavic tribes in the region to be much latter.<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6UbOtJcF8rQC&pg=PA212&dq=immigration+Slav+groups+in+Dalmatia+Danijel+Dzino&hl=en&ei=ONB2Tf7SA4vevQOYybjLBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Becoming Slav, Becoming Croat:] Identity Transformations in Post-Roman and Early Medieval Dalmatia by Danijel Dzino (p212).
* Danijel Dzino states that the 19 century theories of mass movements of peoples (''or'' floods) into the old Roman Provence of Dalmatia to be incorrect. Modern Archaeological and Scholarly research seems to be saying that we are looking at much smaller tribes of Slavs and Avars invading the region. The term Slav was first used by the Byzantines and was written in the 6th century in Byzantine Greek (Σκλαβῖνοι-Sklabinoi). Later in [[Latin]] it was written ''Sclaveni''. The Slavic antonym is considered a derivation from slovo "word," or from Slavlje "celebrate". According to Danijel Dzino the term Slavs was first used by Empires of the day to describe the newcomers, they themselves used the term at a later stage. Thus begun the ''construct identity'' of the new arrivals.
</ref> Archaeological evidence found in the old Roman city of ''Salon'' and artefacts found at the'' Old Croatian'' grave sites, in Dalmatia (during recent excavations) confirms this. The arrival of the Slavs has now been placed to be more in the region of 8th ''or'' even early 9th century.
* Nikola Ostojic wrote: ''"Constantine with a strong army, which amounted to some twenty thousand men in 1181 landed in a faraway part of the city and began to terrorise the island with fire and steel."'' I find the figure of ''twenty thousand men'' highly unlikely the island itself today has a population 16,182 inhabitants (2001).
* Nikola Ostojic wrote: ''"Constantine with a strong army, which amounted to some twenty thousand men in 1181 landed in a faraway part of the city and began to terrorise the island with fire and steel."'' I find the figure of ''twenty thousand men'' highly unlikely the island itself today has a population 16,182 inhabitants (2001).