Versiti – Slavic tribe. Towards the end of ⅵ and the beginning of ⅶ c. They settled in Macedonia on the territories north of Thessaloniki, and later retreated deeper into the interior. In alliance with other tribes, they participated in the Byzantium attacks (614-616), raving the Aegean islands, Southern Ilirik, Epirus, Helada, the shores of Thessaly and the Thessaloniki attack (616). It is considered that the name has Iranian origin (Berestant-high). Sometimes they connect with ethnonym brisks, for the population between Ohrid, Prilep and Veles. Lit.: T. Live, southern Slavs under the Byzantine Vlashyl (600-1025), Belgrade, 2002; F. Barishi, miracles Dimitrija Salonian Cao Historical sources, Belgrade, 1953; I. Stefoska, the Slavs of the soil of Macedonia (from ⅶ to the beginning of the ⅹ century), Skopje, 2002. K. Ag.
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