Bojan Novaković, Doclea – Genta – Praevalis, Philologia, vol. 5/1, Beograd 2007This article deals with the origin, structure and etymology of the ancient names of Doclea, Genta and Praevalis, and the names of the Roman province Praevalitana and the medieval Slavic state Dioklia, later Zeta, which were located almost on the same territory, and whose names are derived from the former. The author concludes that some of these names get the functions of horonyms, only as a result of the administrative measures of the Roman and Byzantine Empires, and implies that historical, geographical and political cirumstances of the ancient world and the Midle Ages contributed to the appearance of these names.
