Slavic Greece - possible names?

Hi there!
I'm working on a TL, in which all of Greece has been slavized during the early middle ages.
How would they call their land, most possibly? Would they have choosen a name similar to "Greece" or would they give their Kingdom a completely different name?
What do you think?
 
Early middel ages? Either they go with a name meaning "Slav" (like OTL Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sorbia), the name of a particular tribe or keep the name of the pre-Slavized population (so propably "Romania").
 
I think it depends what you mean by "slavicized".
If something akin to what happened in western Romania, where Barbarian kingdoms kept foedi names for their territories, while being large romanized (a bit like we would end up, possibly, with romanized Slavs, along hellenic lines), I do agree with @Pischinovski to an extent as Slavic tribes and peoples weren't as structurated as earlier Barbarians were trough pluri-secular contacts : IOTL, it's a maintained contact with Avars, Bulgars, Franks and Byzzies that made it, but I think what you describe requries a collapse of imperial authority, at least in the Balkanic region.

So, rather than tribal names, I'd go with the generic "Slav" ethno-territorial name he suggested, probably hellenized : depending how early it happens, it could gives something along Sklabonia, Sklabenoia/Sklabinoia, Sthauenoia, Sklabinia, Sporoia; mirroring Slavonia, Slovenia, Sclavinia, Serbia forms.
 
For a "slavic Greece" you need a complete collapse of the Byzantine Empire in the 7th century. This also means a complete political fragmentation of Greece, so you would be likely to have a number of polities that emerge over time. Of course, there will be Greek remnants in some parts (certainly the coastal cities), so it really depends on how and where the new polities are formed. If it is through a Greco-Slavic synthesis, with the Slavs adopting Christianity, then the Roman identity would likely reassert itself very quickly. If it is through a Slavic conquest and assimilation, then Greek will be eclipsed, and you would have an Anglo-Saxon England analogue. Thus you might get Vagenetia, Belzetia, Velechatia, Drugubitia etc. after the tribal names, or you might easily get the entire peninsula unified under the Bulgarian Empire.
 
Which Slavic group controls Greece ITTL? That should give an idea.
Thing is, Slavic entities didn't really get stabilized before getting settled and structurated on Byzantine, Frankish or Avar peripheries IOTL. Depending on the PoD that allows a collapse of imperial authority over Greece, we might not have the same Slavic tribes getting settled or organized, and probably not the same complex chiefdoms arising out of it.

Rynchines or Drogobites, for exemple, might go by another name or even not exist with sub-tribal entities forming different groups.
 
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