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      • The Slavs or Slavic people are a group of peoples who speak Slavic languages.
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    The Slavs or Slavic people are a group of peoples who speak Slavic languages.

  3. Slav, member of the most numerous ethnic and linguistic body of peoples in Europe, residing chiefly in eastern and southeastern Europe but extending also across northern Asia to the Pacific Ocean. Customarily, Slavs are subdivided into East Slavs, West Slavs, and South Slavs.

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    • The Origin of The Slavs
    • Slavic Mythology
    • The Slavs During The Later Roman Empire
    • Cultural Divergence of The Slavs

    The Slavs are the least documented group among the so called "barbarian" enemies of Romeduring late antiquity, so there is no scholarly consensus regarding their origin. Authors who wrote about the Slavs do not agree: some say the Slavs were nomads, and others claim they lived in permanent settlements located in forests and swamps; some accounts sa...

    We have very little Slavic mythological material; writingwasn't introduced into Slavic culture until the 9th and 10th centuries CE, during the process of Christianisation. One important god of the Slavs was Perun, who was related to the Baltic god Perkuno. Like the Norse god Thor, Perun was a thunder god, considered a supreme god by some Slavs, jus...

    In the middle of the 5th century CE, a political vacuum affected the entire region of the Balkans as a result of the fall of the Hunnic Empire. Attila's campaigns left large areas south of the Danube unsuitable for living and therefore empty. The borders of the Roman Empirebordering the Balkans were kept with difficulty, as new groups were moving w...

    Early in the Middle Age, the Slavs occupied a large region, which encouraged the emergence of several independent Slav states. From the 10th century CE onwards, the Slavs underwent a process of gradual cultural divergence that produced a set of closely related but mutually unintelligible languages classified as part of the Slavic branch of the Indo...

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  4. May 12, 2013 · Meet the Slavs is your most comprehensive online resource about Slavic people, their cuisine, culture, history, mythology, and more. Discover who the Slavs are, where they came from, and where they live today. Learn what countries are Slavic and what languages they speak.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Early_SlavsEarly Slavs - Wikipedia

    Early Slavs. Battle between the Slavs and the Scythians — painting by Viktor Vasnetsov (1881) The early Slavs were an Indo-European peoples who lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages (approximately from the 5th to the 10th century AD) in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe and established the foundations for the Slavic ...

  6. The meaning of SLAVIC is a branch of the Indo-European language family containing Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Serbian and Croatian, Slovene, Russian, and Ukrainian. How to use Slavic in a sentence.

  7. Slavs. Countries where most people are Slavic and there is at least one Slavic national language. West Slavic. East Slavic. South Slavic. Slavs live in Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, Central Asia and North Asia.

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