Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei rarangi - I nga tau e toru whakamutunga o te rautau 10, ko te Basileia o Croatia i whakahaerehia e Stjepan Držislav, he hoa o te Emepaea o Byzantine, i mohio ia ia hei Kingi o Croatia me Dalmatia. Whai muri i tana matenga i te 997, ko tana tama me tana kaiwhaiwhai a Svetoslav Suronja i haere tonu i te kaupapa here a Byzantine o tona papa, engari ko ona teina o Krešimir me Gojslav i tiimata ki te whakarite i tetahi tutu ki a ia, na te mea i paopao ia ki te tohatoha mana ki te rangatiratanga. I tono nga tuakana ki a Samuil, te rangatira hou o te Emepaea o Bulgarian, e kiia ana hoki ko te Emepaea o te Hauauru o Bulgarian<unk>Macedonian, mo te awhina, i te mohio kei te whawhai ia
ki te Emepaea o Byzantium.