Porga of Croatia

Porga was the one of the first princes (Croatian knez) of Littoral Croatia.

When the Croats arrived in what was Roman Dalmatia, today Croatia, they practiced Slavic paganism. Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus says that Porga, duke of the Dalmatian Croats, who had been invited into Dalmatia by Byzantium Emperor Heraclius, sent to Heraclius for Christian teachers. At the request of Byzantium Emperor Heraclius, Pope John IV (640-642) sent Christian teachers and missionaries to the Croatian Provinces. These missionaries had converted Porga, and also a great many of the clan that was under his immediate authority, to the Catholic faith in 640. This had induced Pope John IV to renew the old archdiocese of Salona and transfer its see to the nearby city of Split then Spalatum. Extension of Christian faith had greater extend in the time of Porgas successor Višeslav.

Porga ruled in what is today Dalmatia, and his region consisted of 11 countys "županija" which were: Hlebiana, Tzenzena, Emota, Pleba, Pesenta, Parathalassia, Brebere, Nona, Tnena, Sidraga, Nina.

Sources

• Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Administrando Imperio, ed. Gy. Moravcsik, trans. R.J.H. Jenkins, rev. ed., Washington, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, 1967.

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