Drosaico was a South Slavic

South Slavic

South Slavic can refer to:* South Slavic languages* South Slavic peoples...

 župan

Zupan

Żupan was a long garment, always lined, worn by almost all males of the noble social class in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, typical male attire from the beginning of the 16th to half of the 18th century, still surviving as a part of the Polishnational dress.- Derivation :The name żupan has...

(duke) of the Narentines in ca. 836 to after 839. The Narentines were a fierce tribe living off piracy

Slavic piracy

In the Baltic Sea region, groups of pirates of Slavic descent lived dating as far back as the 8th century to the 14th century.Baltic Slavs, whose agriculture was not highly developed in early 800, were in dire need of resources, since the dry islets were the only ones capable of cultivation and...

. The Narentines were at the time (823) subordinate to the Serbian Principality.

In ca 839 Doge of Venice

Doge of Venice

The Doge of Venice , often mistranslated Duke was the chief magistrate and leader of the Most Serene Republic of Venice for over a thousand years. Doges of Venice were elected for life by the city-state's aristocracy. Commonly the person selected as Doge was the shrewdest elder in the city...

Pietro Tradonico

Pietro Tradonico

Pietro Tradonico , an Istrian by birth, was the Doge of Venice from 836 to 864. He was, according to tradition, the thirteenth doge, though historically he is only the eleventh. His election broke the power of the Participazio. He was illiterate, and forced to sign all state documents with the...

 headed with a large fleet towards the Narentines. They subsequently made peace and renewed a treaty, that would stop the piracy against the Republic of Venice

Republic of Venice

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. They however, shortly thereafter, plundered the Venetian borders under the leadership of Uneslav and Diodor. Ljudislav

Ljudislav

Ljudislav was a South Slavic ruler of the Narentines in 840. He waged a successful naval battle against the Republic of Venice.-Life:Ljudislav was possibly a co-ruler or successor of Drosaico....

, the Narentine ruler that defeated Doge Pietro in 840, was possibly a co-ruler or successor of Drosaico.

See also

• Beloje
  Beloje of Trebinje
  Beloje was the Župan of Travunia in the early 9th century, a fief of the Serbian Principality under Prince Vlastimir . He may have had the position under Vlastimir's predecessors; Radoslav or Prosigoj...
  
   (fl. 839-842), župan
  Zupan
  Żupan was a long garment, always lined, worn by almost all males of the noble social class in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, typical male attire from the beginning of the 16th to half of the 18th century, still surviving as a part of the Polishnational dress.- Derivation :The name żupan has...
  
  of Travunia
  Travunia
  Travunia was a medieval region, administrative unit and principality, which was part of Medieval Serbia , and in its last years, the Bosnian Kingdom . The county became hereditary in a number of noble houses, often kin to the ruling dynasty. The region came under Ottoman rule in 1482...
  
  
• Krajina Belojević
  Krajina Belojević
  Krajina Belojević was the župan of Travunia, an administrative unit of the Principality of Serbia, in the 9th century. In 847/848, not long after the three-year Bulgarian–Serbian War in which Prince Vlastimir of Serbia Krajina Belojević was the župan of Travunia, an administrative unit of the...
  
   (ca. 847-891), župan or knez of Travunia

Sources

• Ernst Dümmler, Über die älteste Geschichte der Slaven in Dalmatien (549-928), p. 45