Valuk (duke)

Valuk (Latin: Wallucus dux) was the slavic duke in the independent land of the Alpine Slavs or Carantania.

[2] After the attempt to capture Constantinople in 626 failed, the Avars turned towards the west and attacked the territory settled by Slavs.

[3] At the latest after the weakening of Pannonian Avars in 626 (if not already in 623), Slavs in the Eastern Alps joined the Slavic tribal association of the Duke Samo.

[8] It is also possible that Valuk was the prince of the Alpine Slavs, where Arnefrit, the son of Friulian Duke Lupa, sought political asylum and alliance.

[4][6] In describing Arnefrit's withdrawal to the Slavs, Paul the Deacon claimed that he fled to the Slavs in Karnuntum, mistakenly called Karantanum (Carnuntum, quod corrupte vocifier Carantanum),[4] which could mean that the land began to be called Carantania under Valuk's rule.

The greatest possible extent of Valuk's "Land of the Slavs". For southern territory (yellow) there is no information. At the time of Valuk there were some aborigine population concentrations in Eastern Alps (light blue).