Narona, a flourishing Roman city, had been…
642 CE
Narona, a flourishing Roman city, had been destroyed in 639 by a horde of Avars and Slavs.
Within a few years, Slavic tribes hav taken control of the lower Neretva.
The Slavs build a new town on the ruins of Narona, and erect a monument to their god Svetovid, on the ruins of Roman temples.
Narentia will become a stronghold for pagans in the Balkans, similarly to Baltic Slavs in Rügen (Roman Arkona).
The Narentine pirates start to improve their shipbuilding trades when the Arabs start to massively jeopardize the Eastern Roman Imperial waters.
The Slavs become skilled shipbuilders and talented in the naval arts, becoming the only experts in navigation and piracy that the Slavic people have produced.
Already by the middle of the seventh century, in 642, the Slavs dispatch from the Dalmatian coast towards Italy and invade Siponto at the Gulf of Monte Gargano.
Afterwards, raids in the Adriatic will increase rapidly, until the Narentines become the most fearsome threat to safe traveling.