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| | Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Slavs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | It lists the twelve Slavic plemena (tribal unions or nations) which settled by the 9th century between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea. |
 | | These plemena are Polans, Drevlyans, Dregovichs, radimichi, Vyatichs, Krivichs, Slovens, Dulebes (later known asVolhynians and Buzhans)(white) Khorvats, Severians, Ulichs, Tivertsi. |
 | | Based on archaeological and linguistic evidence, historians theorize that the Slavs formed as an ethnic group in the middle of 2nd millennium BC in the area that is now split between Poland, Czech republic, Slovakia, western Belarus and northwestern Ukraine. |
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