Zagorcani or Zagorceni was a South Slavic tribe that arrived to the region of the south-western part of today's Republic of Macedonia during the 6th and 7th century Byzantine Empire. They settled in the Pelagonia region and had close contacts with the Draguvites Slavic tribes. Australian born writer Tome Egumenoski conducted some research in historical cartography determining the locality of the Slavic tribe. The Zagorcani tribes were part of the realm associated to the Berziti tribes and also the Draguvites and Sagudates tribes. These Slavic tribes had there very own Slavic language completely different to the Slavic tribes known as the White Croats who spoke a language known as Lechitic and arrived to a region known as Dalmatia in the 6th century.
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