Sagudaty (also sagudai , sakudai [1] ) - the South Slavic tribe that inhabited the Peloponnese from the 7th century, in the 8th - 11th centuries AD - the Halkidiki peninsula in the Balkans.
History
Sagudates occupied a small territory between the well-fortified Greek city of Thessaloniki on the one hand and the Byzantine fortress-monastery of Athos on the other. Due to their invasion, land communication between these fortresses by Constantinople was broken, and communications with the capital were maintained for a long time only by sea. The settlement area of the sagudates was called Sagudatia, which the Byzantines contemptuously called Subdelithia . For some time, the Sakudai retained traditional Slavic beliefs, gradually replacing them with Orthodox rites adopted from the Greeks. By the beginning of the XI century, when the decline of South Slavic statehood began, these lands again returned to the Byzantine Empire, although the sagudates revolted during the reign of Michael III (842-867), but were defeated. In 1081 - 1118 Byzantine authorities evicted sagudates from the vicinity of Mount Athos in Bithynia ( Asia Minor ). So, in 1204 there is a mention of the existence of the village of Sagudai near the Asian city of Nicaea . Apparently, the sagudates were first Hellenized, and then became part of the modern Turkish nation.