NAME THEORY
State of Ra�ka was named after Ra�ka River in the present-day south-western Serbia. It is thought that Sarmatian Serboi, an ancient tribe from Caucasus that probably gave its name to the Slavic Serbs, left their traces around the river Volga (Araxes in Greek), which is also called "Rashki". This name is found wherever the name Serb is found in clusters.
HISTORY
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos describes Ra�ka in De Administrando Imperio as being settled by Serbs at the start of the 7th century. Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos writes in De Administrando Imperio that the Serbs received in Rascia/Ra�ka, Zachumlie/Zahumlje, Trebounia/Travunia, Zeta/Duklja, Bosnia/Bosna and Pagania/Paganija.
The House of Vlastimirovi?, (named for Knez Vlastimir, who was the great great grandson of the Unknown Archont who led the Serbs to the Balkans from White Serbia (modern day Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine) during the reign of Byzantine emperor Heraclius somewhere between 610 - 641) ruled from Ra�ka.
From the early 7th century, the history of Ra�ka becomes intimately bound with the history of the Serb House of Vlastimirovi?.
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