# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:23:08.043Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samo"
name: "Samo"
slug: "samo"
description: "A Frankish merchant who became the first king of a unified Slavic realm — by leading an uprising against the Avars in 623 and holding off his own former kingdom thirty years before Charlemagne was born."
tagline: "Frankish merchant who unified several Slavic tribes"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/King_Samo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "700"
deathDate: "658"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.73
  momentum:             3.585732165206508
  historical:           21.94059066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 92
tags:
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    slug: "politicians"
  - name: "Politician"
    slug: "politician"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "Medieval Era"
    slug: "medieval-era"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Samo"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Само"
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    title: "Samo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samo"
    title: "Samo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mo"
    title: "Sámo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samo"
    title: "Samo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%AC%CE%BC%CE%BF"
    title: "Σάμο"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sámo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samo"
    title: "Samo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samo"
    title: "Samo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samo"
    title: "Samo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samo"
    title: "Samo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%95"
    title: "סאמו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samo"
    title: "Samo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szamo"
    title: "Szamo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samo"
    title: "Samo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samo_(sovrano)"
    title: "Samo (sovrano)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%9D"
    title: "სამო"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%82%AC%EB%AA%A8_(%EC%8A%AC%EB%9D%BC%EB%B8%8C%EC%A1%B1%EC%9D%98_%EC%99%95)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "سامو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سامو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Samo arrived from Sens as a trader around 623, but the Slavic tribes he dealt with were bleeding under Avar raids. He unified them, led the revolt, and somehow ended up ruling the lot — a Frankish outsider turned rex Sclavorum. In 631 he beat back a three-day Frankish siege at Wogastisburg, flipping the Sorbian ruler Dervan to his side in the process. He ruled until his death around 658, though his sons never took the royal title. Fredegar, writing closest to the events, called him Frankish; later chronicles, and centuries of nationalist mythmaking, have preferred to make him Slavic.