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    The East Slavs are the most populous subgroup of the Slavs. They speak the East Slavic languages, and formed the majority of the population of the medieval...
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  • The Slavs or Slavic people are a group of peoples who speak Slavic languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia;...
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    population of a number of medieval Christian states: East Slavs in the Kievan Rus', South Slavs in the Bulgarian Empire, the Principality of Serbia, the...
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    Slovakization East Slavs South Slavs Outline of Slavic history and culture Ilya Gavritukhin, Vladimir Petrukhin (2015). Yury Osipov (ed.). Slavs. Great Russian...
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    (Proto-Indo-European speakers) Proto-Balto-Slavs (common ancestors of Balts and Slavs) (Proto-Balto-Slavic speakers) Proto-Slavs (Proto-Slavic speakers) Sporoi (also...
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    Geographically separated from the West Slavs and East Slavs by Austria, Hungary, Romania, and the Black Sea, the South Slavs today include Bosniaks, Bulgarians...
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    Old East Slavic (traditionally also Old Russian) was a language (or a group of dialects) used by the East Slavs from the 7th or 8th century to the 13th...
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    practices of the Slavs before Christianisation, which occurred at various stages between the 8th and the 13th century. The South Slavs, who likely settled...
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    the monarchs of the South Slavs adopted Christianity in the 9th century, the East Slavs in the 10th, and the West Slavs between the 9th and 12th century...
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  • Slavs, the ancestors of the Slavs (the subsequent ethnic group name). Thus, the Slav ethnonym at first denoted the southern group of the early Slavs....
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    suggested that Svarog may be a borrowing from Indo-Aryan languages, but the Slavs and Indo-Aryans were separated by too much space for them to have direct...
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    formerly used in Eastern and Central Europe as common ethnonyms for East Slavs, particularly during the late medieval and early modern periods. The Latin...
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    Sclaveni (redirect from Early South Slavs)
    an Avar embassy requesting his Slavs to accept Avar suzerainty and pay tribute, because the Avars knew that the Slavs had amassed great wealth after repeatedly...
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    Polabian Slavs, also known as Elbe Slavs and more broadly as Wends, is a collective term applied to a number of Lechitic (West Slavic) tribes who lived...
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    deemed actually to have been objects of worship among pagan Slavs. The pseudo-deities of the Slavs, like those of other ethnic groups, were created as a result...
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    the South Slavs for centuries. These were mainly the Byzantine Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Venice. Extensive pan-Slavism began much...
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  • The pagan Slavs were polytheistic, which means that they worshipped many gods and goddesses. The gods of the Slavs are known primarily from a small number...
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    of the conversion of the Bulgarians facilitated the conversion of the East Slavs.[failed verification] A major event in this effort was the development...
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  • most likely locus of the ethnogenesis of Slavs. According to Polish archaeologist Michał Parczewski, Slavs began to settle in southeastern Poland no...
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    Tale type ATU 510B also exists in the repertoire of the East Slavs. According to the East Slavic Folktale Catalogue (Russian: СУС, romanized: SUS),...
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  • Early East Slavs settled the forested hills of today's Minsk by the 9th century. They had been migrating from further south and pushing the preceding Balts...
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  • Slavs, a subgroup of Slavic peoples who speak the East Slavic languages Old East Slavic, a language used during the 10th–15th centuries by East Slavs...
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    Russians (category East Slavs)
    Genetically, East Slavs are quite similar to West Slavs; such genetic similarity is somewhat unusual for genetics with such a wide settlement of the Slavs, especially...
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    Drevlians (category East Slavic tribes)
    of Medieval Slavic tribes "Slavs". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. 1993. Retrieved 2023-01-25. Francis Conte (1995). The Slavs. East European Monographs. p. 71...
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    Polotsk or Polotskian Rus', was a medieval principality of the Early East Slavs. The origin and date of state establishment is uncertain. Chronicles of...
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  • cultures of Slavic Europe. East Slavs: Culture of Belarus Culture of Russia Culture of Kievan Rus' Culture of Ukraine South Slavs: Culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
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    Kievan Rus' (category Articles containing Old East Slavic-language text)
    the Rus' were themselves Slavs (see Anti-Normanism). Normanist theories focus on the earliest written source for the East Slavs, the Primary Chronicle,[failed...
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    George's Day in Spring (category Folk calendar of the East Slavs)
    George's Day in Spring, or Saint George's Day (Serbian: Ђурђевдан, romanized: Đurđevdan, pronounced [ˈdʑûːrdʑeʋdaːn]; Bulgarian: Гергьовден, romanized: Gergyovden;...
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    Ukrainians (category East Slavs)
    largest diasporas in the world.[citation needed] The East Slavs emerged from the undifferentiated early Slavs in the Slavic migrations of the 6th and 7th centuries...
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    and Rostov-on-Don. The East Slavs emerged as a recognised group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries CE. The first East Slavic state, Kievan Rus'...
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