ABSTRACT
Among the many Slavic tribes which, in the first decades of the 7th century, crossed the Danube and settled in the Balkan peninsula, were the Serbs, who stayed on the right bank of the river. Indeed, only from the 9th century can they be considered as the only and real inhabitants of the Danube valley, with organized settlements and material culture developed to a certain extent. The Serbian population in the 9th century, as in the case of all the other free Slavic tribes, most frequently lived in settlements near rivers, each separated from the other by so-called communal land that belonged to the community. The archaeological data and the material acquired during the investigations on the site as well as on other sites in the Serbian Danube valley tally almost exactly with those found in other regions of the wide territory inhabited by the Slavs during the 9th and 10th centuries.
