Skok believes this period also being the first contact between Venice and the middle Dalmatian islands. Narentine Slavs sent envoys to Doge Giovanni I Participazio (r. The first conflicts between the Venetians and Narentines came immediately before 830, around which time the first peace agreement was signed between the two (the Venetian Doge and Sclavorum de insula Narrentis). Slavic principalities in the early 9th century. Slavic naval raids on the Adriatic increased and it became unsafe for travel. In 642, Slavs invaded southern Italy and attacked Siponto, by ship from the Dalmatian coast. According to Evans, Narentia became a stronghold for pagans in the Balkans, similarly to Balto-Slavs in Rügen (at Jaromarsburg). The Slavs built a new town on the ruins of Narona, and erected a monument to their Slavic god Svetovid, on the ruins of Roman temples. A few years later, Slavic tribes took control of the lower Neretva. In 639 AD, Narona, until then a flourishing Roman city, was destroyed by a horde of Avars and Slavs. The Sclaveni (South Slavs) overwhelmed the Balkans in the 6th century. Croatia was situated to the northwest, and Zachumlia to the east Serbia was situated inland to the northeast, behind Pagania, Zachumlia, Travunia and Dioklea, and bordered to Croatia on the Tzentina ( Cetina) river. Islands in the vicinity but not part of Pagania were Chora (presumably Sušac ), Iës ( Vis ) and Lastobon ( Lastovo ). Pagania had the inhabited cities of Mokron ( Makarska ), Beroullia (presumably Brela ), Ostrok ( Zaostrog ) and Slavinetza (near Gradac ), and the large islands of Kourkra/Kiker with a city ( Korčula ), Meleta/Malozeatai ( Mljet ), Phara ( Hvar ) and Bratzis ( Brač ). Rhastotza and Mokros lay by the coast, and had galleys, while Dalen was distant from the sea and was based on agriculture. Pagania had the counties ( župa (zoupanias)) of Rhastotza, Mokros and Dalen. In DAI's chapters Story of the province of Dalmatia and Of the Pagani, also called Arentani, and of the country they now dwell in, the geography of Pagania is described. In Serbo-Croatian, the tribal name is rendered as Neretljani (Неретљани), Neretvani and Pagani (Пагани), while the polity mostly as Paganija (Паганија). Chronicler John the Deacon used the geographical term Narentani (as in princeps Narentanorum, Narrentanos Sclavos ). 913–959), the tribe is called Paganoi ( Greek: Παγανοὶ, Παγανοἰ), and their polity Pagania (Παγανὶα, Παγανἰα), in Greek, while also noting that in Latin they are called Arentanoi (Αρεντανοἰ) and their polity Arenta (Αρεντα).
In De Administrando Imperio of Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (r. The terms "Narentines", "Pagania" or "Pagans" are found in two contemporary sources: De Administrando Imperio ( DAI), a mid-10th century Greek work, and Chronicon Venetum et Gradense, a Venetian chronicle by John the Deacon from the early 11th century. The word Narentine is a demonym derived from the local Neretva river ( Latin: Narenta).
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