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The Slavs or Slavic people are a group of people who speak Slavic languages.
- Slavic Native Faith
Rodnovers gathered at the Temple of Svarozhich's Fire of the...
- South Slavs
South Slavs are Slavic people who speak South Slavic...
- Ethnolinguistic Group
An ethnolinguistic group (or ethno-linguistic group) is a...
- West Slavs
The West Slavs are Slavic peoples who speak the West Slavic...
- Slavs (Ethnonym)
The Roman bureaucrat Jordanes wrote about the Slavs in his...
- Great Moravia
Great Moravia (Latin: Regnum Marahensium; Greek: Μεγάλη...
- Zbruch Idol
Zbruch Idol, Kraków Archaeological Museum Zbruch Idol, an...
- Slavic Names
Finally, in 16th–17th century the traditional Slavic names...
- Rusyns
Rusyns (Rusyn: Русины, romanized: Rusynŷ), also known as...
- Early Slavs
The early Slavs were an Indo-European peoples who lived...
- Slavic Native Faith
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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Researchers know relatively little about the Eastern Slavs prior to approximately 859 AD when the first events recorded in the Primary Chronicle occurred. The Eastern Slavs of these early times apparently lacked a written language. The few known facts come from archaeological digs, foreign travellers' accounts of the Rus' land, and linguistic comparative analyses of Slavic languages. Very few native Rus' documents dating before the 11th century (none before the 10th century) have survived. Th...
Migration
There is no consensus among scholars as to the urheimat of the Slavs. In the first millennium AD, Slavic settlers are likely to have been in contact with other ethnic groups who moved across the Eastern European Plain during the Migration Period. Between the first and ninth centuries, the Sarmatians, Huns, Alans, Avars, Bulgars, and Magyars passed through the Pontic steppe in their westward migrations. Although some of them could have subjugated the region's Slavs, these foreign tribes left l...
Pre-Kievan period
According to archeology, the Prague, Korchak, Penkova, Kolochin and Kyiv cultures are classified as early Slavic, the earliest of which, Kyiv, from the 2nd–3rd centuries AD. e. was the northern neighbor of the more developed and multi-ethnic Chernyakhov culture, associated with West Slavs (Great Moravia). Rare, few and short-lived settlements of the Slavs were located "in unusual topographic conditions: in low places, often now flooded during floods". Eastern Slavs, who found themselves as a...
Modern East Slavic peoples and ethnic/subethnic groups include:[citation needed] 1. Belarusians 1.1. Litvins 2. Cossacks 2.1. Zaporozhian Cossacks 2.1.1. Tavria Zaporozhians 2.1.2. Black Sea Zaporozhians 3. Podlashuks 4. Poleshuks 5. Russians 5.1. Albazinians 5.2. Doukhobors 5.3. Goryuns 5.4. Kamchadals 5.5. Kamenschiks 5.6. Lipovans 5.7. Polekhs 5...
According to Y chromosome, mDNA and autosomal marker CCR5de132, East Slavs and West Slavs are genetically very similar, which is consistent with the proximity of their languages, demonstrating significant differences from the neighboring Finno-Ugric, Turkic and North Caucasian peoples all the way from west to east; such genetic homogeneity is somew...
Wheat fields and sunflowers, often associated with the Ukrainian cultureTraditional Ukrainian mazankaPaintings of log houses, common in BelarusSep 10, 2014 · The term "Slavs" designates an ethnic group of people who share a long-term cultural continuity and who speak a set of related languages known as the Slavic languages (all of which belong to the Indo-European language family).
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