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The Berziti ( Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian: Берзити; Greek: Βερζῆτες, romanizedBerzites) were a South Slavic tribe that settled in Byzantine Macedonia in the 7th century AD with the Slavic invasion of the Balkans. The Berziti settled in the vicinity of Lychnidos ( Ohrid). [1] One part of the same tribe settled in Brest, Belarus, while another, moved south into the Balkans. [2]

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  1. ^ Stanoje Stanojević (2000). Narodna enciklopedija: srpsko-hrvatsko-slovenačka. Budućnost. p. 312. Retrieved 14 April 2013. Jedno slovensko pleme zove se u izvorima 7 vijeka Brziti, a navodi se kao naselje u južnoj Makedoniji. Uzima se danas općenito, da su to Brsjaci oko Ohridskog i Pre- spanskog Jezera i oko gradova Velesa, Prilepa i Bitolja.
  2. ^ Traian Stoianovich (1994). Balkan worlds: the first and last Europe. M.E. Sharpe. pp. 149–. ISBN  978-0-7656-3851-9. Retrieved 14 April 2013.