Name
"Doclea" was first the name of the Roman city of today's Podgorica (Ribnica) after Roman Emperor Diocletian built the city, he hailed from this region in Roman Dalmatia. The Romanized Illyrian tribe Docleatae that inhabited the area derived their name from the city. In later centuries, Romans "hyper-corrected" the name to Dioclea, wrongly guessing that an "I" had been lost due to vulgar speech patterns. "Duklja" is the later Slavic version of this region, attributed to the principality under Byzantine suzerainty.
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