Editing Subotica (section)

===Early Middle Ages and Slavic settlement===
In the Early Middle Ages various [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] and [[Turkic peoples]] and states ruled in the area of Subotica. These peoples included [[Huns]], [[Gepids]], [[Pannonian Avars|Avars]], [[Slavs]] and [[Bulgarians]]. [[Slavs]] settled today's Subotica in the 6th and 7th centuries, before some of them crossed the rivers Sava and Danube and settled in the [[Balkans]].

The Slavic tribe living in the territory of present-day Subotica were the [[Obotrites]], a subgroup of the [[Serbs]]. In the 9th century, after the fall of the Avar state, the first forms of Slavic statehood emerged in this area. The first Slavic states that ruled over this region included the [[Pannonian Slavs#Principality|Principality of Lower Pannonia]] (846-875), [[Great Moravia]] (833–{{circa}} 907) and the [[First Bulgarian Empire|Bulgarian Empire]].{{sfn|Barford|2001}}