Anonymus 291 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E/M IX |
| Ethnicity | Slav |
| Locations | Sklabenia |
| Titles | Ruler of the Slavs (office) |
| Textual Sources | Vita Gregorii Decapolitae, by Ignatius the Deacon,ed. F. Dvornik, La Vie de Saint Grégoire le Décapolite et les Slaves macédoniens au IXe siècle (Paris, 1926), pp. 45-75 (hagiography) |
Anonymus 291 was an unnamed ruler of the Slavs, probably in the vicinity of Thessalonike; Gregory the Decapolite (Gregorios 79) once abandoned a journey into the mountains in Slav territory (πρὸς τὰ τῶν Σκλαβηνῶν μερῶν ὄρη) because of the imminence of fighting and after a few days civil war broke out involving the ruler of that region (στάσις οὐ μικρὰ τοῦ τῆς ἐκείνης Σκλαβηνίας ἐξάρχοντος γέγονε); there was much bloodshed and widespread burning and confusion: Ignatius, Vita Greg. Dec. 17.
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