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Daurentius or Dauritas (Greek: Δαυρέντιος Δαυρίτας) was a 6th-century South Slavic (Sclaveni) chieftain and warlord.His realm was situated in the basin of the Zala river roughly in the territory of the old Roman province of Pannonia Prima in present-day Hungary.Daurentius is the first Slavic chieftain to be recorded by name by the Byzantine historian Menander Protector who reported that the Avar khagan Bayan I sent an embassy asking Daurentius and his Slavs to accept Avar suzerainty and pay tribute because the Avars knew that the Slavs had amassed great wealth after repeatedly plundering the Byzantine Balkan provinces.