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This image is a copyright infringement. This picture is not made by Todor Bozhinov. This picture can be found on the Encarta Encyclopedia program. It's also pretty obvious that the picture is from Encarta Encyclopedia if you've used it before. CrnaGora (Talk | Contribs | E-mail)

Error

There is also one big problem with the map, the fact that Croatia wasn't the name of any country during this period, and the area which has the name Croatia on this map, should in fact say Serbia.--Moosh88 06:11, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Pardon? Actually, there was no Serbia for a certain period, it was under Bulgarian rule during a part of Simeon's reign. Todor→Bozhinov 10:26, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

It is true that Serbia was under Bulgarian domination for some time, but before that, there was a Serb kingdom, which predated any Croatian kingdoms. Also, both Serbs and Croats are traced to the Sarmatians, Alaordians and possibly even being an offshoot of the Indo-Iranians, living near and around the Black Sea. The distinction between Serb and Croat being completly separate ethnic groups, with no common background was largely created by the Croatians adoption of Catholocism and the Serbs adoption of Eastern Orthodoxy in the Middle Ages. The extrememly close relations between the Serbian language and Croatian provides further evidence that at one time the Serbs and Croats were one ethnic group. If one does enough research on the topic, and actually uses Serbian, Croatian, Russian, Greek, Armenian, and Iranian sources, one will see that there is more than a lingustic connection between the two.--Moosh88 20:18, 30 April 2007 (UTC)