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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Slavs
		Slavs is to be sought in the region of the Danube.
		Slavs, as early as the era of the Hunnish ruler Attila, or of the migrations of the
		Slavs in the Balkans and in the southern districts of the
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14042a.htm (7062 words)

	East Slavs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By 8th century BC Slavs had entered the Iron Age and started their gradual expansion to the east and to the south.
		By the 6th century, the Slavs were the dominant ethnic group on the East European Plain.
		The East Slavs settled along the Dnieper river in what is now Ukraine; they then spread northward to the northern Volga valley, east of modern-day Moscow and westward to the basins of the northern Dniester and the Western Bug rivers in present-day Moldova and southern Ukraine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_Slavs (714 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Slavs
		Slavs are generally classified in three main divisions: the East Slavs (the largest division) include the Ukrainians, Russians, and Belorussians; the South Slavs include the Serbs, Croats, Macedonians, and Slovenes (and frequently also...
		Slavs Peoples who occupied eastern Europe in ancient times and were known to the Romans as Sarmatians and Scythians.
		After the collapse of the HUNS in the 5th century the Slavs migrated westwards to the Elbe, the Baltic, the...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Slavs (0 words)

	Bulgaria - a brief history ouline - The Slavs
		With the arrival of the Slavs, slave forms of dependence of farmers on the big landowners in the Balkans were replaced by the free rural communes.
		By the mid-seventh century the Slavs of the Bulgarian group were almost two centuries ahead of the rest of the Slavs, standing on the threshold of the formation of a state organization.
		It was this alliance of seven Slav tribes which withstood the military pressure exerted by the Byzantine Empire.
	www.digsys.bg /books/history/slavs.html (561 words)

	The Slavs
		As regards the eastern Slavs or Russians, leaving out the mention of Ptolemy already referred to, Jordanis says that at the beginning of the era of the migrations the Goths had carried on war with the "nation of Slavs"; this nation must have lived in what is now Southern Russia.
		However, the contrary is the case; the original home of the Slavs and the region from which their migrations began is to be sought in the basin of the Dnieper and in the region extending to the Carpathians and the Vistula.
		In Austria the Poles form the population of Western Galicia and are in a large minority throughout Eastern Galicia; in Eastern Galicia the population of the cities particularly is preponderantly Polish, as is also a large part of the population of a section of Austrian Silesia, the district of Teschin.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/slavs.html (7640 words)

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		The Slavs living on the shores of the Adriatic also displayed maritime inclanations; during a period of at least about 50 years during the 900's the Venetian Republic was reduced to a status of a virtual tributary of the Slavic pirates from the Adriatic littoral.
		Polabian Slavs, it appears especially the Vielets, established their own enclave in the Utrecht area, and settled in parts of England, apparently as Danish allies; Polabian-Pomeranian Slavs are also known to have even settled on Norse age Iceland and also extensively in the northern Eastern Slavdom.
		Slavs and Goths also lived close to each other for some time; the latter used to form either most or all of the population of a substantial chunk of present-day Poland, especially in its north-central, north-eastern and eastern sectors, from the Vistula delta in the north to Zamojszczyzna in the south.
	michalw.narod.ru /SlavicSpain.html (6045 words)

	history of Slavic People
		Slavs first appeared in history living in the Pripyat Marshes area (Polesie), but a considerable number of Slavic words have Indo-Aryan links of the form suggesting genesis from a common ancestor, rather than borrowing.
		Slavs appeared in early histories as Venedes or Wends, but their connection to the Veneds mentioned by Tacitus, Ptolemy and Pliny, remains uncertain, and the similarity of the two names may have come about accidentally.
		Presumably the Slavs, like putative Indo-Europeans, originated from a region in Asia, from which they migrated in the 3rd or 2nd millennium BC to populate parts of eastern Europe.
	www.findthelinks.com /history/slavs.htm (1293 words)

	SLAVIC PEOPLES,
		The early Slavs were an obscure group of farmers and herders living in the marshes and woodlands of what is now eastern Poland and western Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.
		Whereas the ancient Slavs probably exhibited considerable racial and cultural homogeneity, the modern Slavic peoples are united mainly by their linguistic affinity and a sense of common origins.
		Although the Slavs created a number of medieval kingdoms between the 9th and 11th centuries, much of their subsequent history was characterized by subjugation within foreign states.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..sl127200.a#FWNE.fw..sl127200.a (1137 words)

	The Resurrection and The Willow - The Conversion of the Slavs
		The Resurrection and The Willow - The Conversion of the Slavs
		Occupying lands between the Eastern and the remnants of the Western Roman Empires the Slavs came under increasing pressure from the German princes and their hierarchs to bring them under the influence and control of the latter which contrasted with the efforts of many Slavic princes to escape German control by fostering contact with Constantinople.
		Thus the work of the Apostles to the Slavs which began with promise within the Patriarchate of Rome was abandoned by Rome thereby conferring upon the Church of Constantinople preeminence in uniting the Southern and Eastern Slavs, not with Rome, but with Constantinople where they remain today.
	members.tripod.com /ResurrectionWillows/Conversion.html (1011 words)

	4. Eastern Europe, 1000-1300. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The Slavs, an eastern branch of the Indo-European family, were known to the Roman and Greek writers of the 1st and 2nd centuries
		The majority of modern scholars agree that the “original home” of the Slavs was the territory to the southeast of the Vistula and to the northeast of the Carpathian Mountains, in the upper basins of the Western Bug, the Pripet, and the Dniester.
		The Slavs emerged as a distinct people after mingling with the Goths and Huns.
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	d. Kievan Russia. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The eastern Slavs settled on the territory of present-day European Russia from the 5th to the 8th century
		A.D. In the 8th century some of the eastern Slavs were under the protectorate of the Khazars, an Altaic people who established a strong and prosperous state along the lower Volga.
		Oleg also united the eastern Slavs, freed them from Khazar control, and signed a commercial treaty with the Byzantine Empire.
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	Aryan Unity - Slavs are Aryans
		The colonization of the Volga region by tribes belonging to the eastern branch of the Slavs, which was to become so important from the eleventh century on, certainly did not start before the seventh or eighth century, and then on a very modest scale.
		These Slavs, soon converted to the Christian faith, were under the leadership of Chrovatos whose name, probably Iranian, was taken by his people, later known as Croats, while other tribes of the same group received the name of Serbs (in the West).
		When, after participating in earlier invasions of the Eastern Empire by the Avars, as had the Slavs, they definitely crossed the Danube under their Khan or Khagan, Asparukh, in 679, a Bulgar state was established in northern Thrace in the region of present-day Bulgaria.
	www.aryanunity.com /slavs.html (4941 words)

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		Eastern Slavs consist of the Byelorussions, or White Russians; the Russians, or Great Russians; and the Ukrainians, or Little Russians.
		The eastern Slavs were strongly influenced by the culture of the Byzantine Empire.
		Southern Slavs are a group composed of the Bulgarians, the Croats, the Macedonians, the Serbs, and the Slovenes.
	www.cs.columbia.edu /~radev/cgi-bin/faqserver.cgi?slavs (476 words)

	Slavonic languages
		The history of the Balkan Slavs was closely connected with Byzantium, in contrast to that of the Lekhitic and Sorbian subgroups of the Western Slavs, which was connected with western European culture.
		An effort on the part of the Slavs to counteract the influence of the Western Christian church (which was associated with the German empire) was the motive behind the introduction of the Old Church Slavonic language into the liturgy in Great Moravia, the first Slavic national state.
		After the schism between the Eastern (Orthodox) and Western (Roman) Christian churches in the 11th century and the beginning of the Crusades, the Church Slavonic language fell out of use in all West Slavic countries and in the western part of the Balkan Slavic region.
	www.rkp-montreal.org /en/05slavoniclanguages.html (0 words)

	Converted WP file 1viera
		In the case of the Eastern Slavs, this was partly a result of their expansion to the north and east, The process is facilitated when people are on the move, colonising new territories, encountering new challanging environments, circumstances and often hostile locals.
		And this is the case of the Eastern Slavs during their northern and eastern expansion of the migration period, as well as a result of later constant conflicts with the people of the steppes.
		Popowska-Taborska, H.,'Po%abszczyzna jako Pó%nocno-Zachodnia Peryferia S%owia%szczyzny' (The Polabian Slavs as a North-Western Periphery of the Slavdom), in J. Strzelczyk, ed., S%owia%szczyzna Po%abska (The Polabian Slavdom),(Pozna%, Poland: UAM, 1981), pp.
	www.ibiblio.org /sergei/Zaroff (0 words)

	The Slavs and Their Neighbors
		The colonization of the Volga region by tribes belonging to the eastern branch of the Slavs, which was to become so important from the eleventh century on, certainly did not start before the seventh or eighth century, and then on a very modest scale.
		In general, however, it was the eastern branch of the Slavs, first called Antes in the earliest sources and later known under the enigmatic name of Rus, which as a natural consequence of their geographical situation had already had the closest relations with the various Asiatic invaders of eastern Europe in the prehistoric period.
		When, after participating in earlier invasions of the Eastern Empire by the Avars, as had the Slavs, they definitely crossed the Danube under their Khan or Khagan, Asparukh, in 679, a Bulgar state was established in northern Thrace in the region of present-day Bulgaria.
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		Slavs are any of several groups of peoples, most of whom live in Eastern Europe.
		The eastern Slavs were strongly influenced by the culture of the Byzantine Empire.
		Southern Slavs are a group composed of the Bulgarians, the Croats, the Macedonians, the Serbs, and the Slovenes.
	www1.cs.columbia.edu /~radev/cgi-bin/faqserver.cgi?slavs (476 words)

	Pentecost, Holy Trinity and the Green Holidays in the Eastern Church
		On Pentecost the Eastern Church also celebrates the Feastday of the Holy Trinity and on the Saturday preceding, one of the five Saturdays in the typikon dedicated to the remembrance of the dead.
		In pre-Christian times, the Eastern Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians and Ruthenians) held beliefs and practiced customs which evolved in response to their needs to secure their livelihood and survival under adverse conditions because Eastern Europe is far from the benign influence of the Gulf Stream and for that reason more subject to extremes in weather.
		The conversion of the Eastern Slavs by St. Vladimir the Great in 988 AD did not result in the Slavs' abandonment of the old beliefs in exchange for the teachings of the new religion.
	www.byzantines.net /epiphany/pentecost.htm (1576 words)

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		Despite the fact, that the existence of the Slavs was only a matter of ideology and "national" pride, the pan-Slav movement needed a "historical" clue to confront the German nationalism.
		With respect to the subject "Slavs are competing for their so-called national pride", lots of propaganda about national romanticism, scientific and ideological falsifications were published, and they are still in circulation.
		This applies also to the fact, that the Slavs were never descendants of the (none existing) "Ancient Slavs" who at one-time should have lived and danced behind the Carpathians.
	www.carantha.net /the_vends_and_the_slavs__m.htm (2260 words)

	Culture of the Eastern Slavs
		Little is known about the level of culture of the Eastern Slavs.
		The general image may be given by analyzing some archaic features of their folklore preserved in the language in the form of ritual songs, funeral weeping, riddles and folk-tales.
		Actually in the period described there was a trade-route 'from the Varangians to the Greeks' and on the territory of the Eastern Slavs one could find the Norman burials in the barrows of the 8th - 10th centuries, including the prince's armed force barrows as well.
	russia.rin.ru /guides_e/6479.html (0 words)

	SLAVISM.COM - Slavs and Slavic World - Slovak Language
		something that is native to, characteristic of, or associated with the Slavs or Slavic.
		It is a west Slavic language, but in the east it borders on Ukrainian and Ruthenian and, before the arrival of Magyars (Hungarians) in the Danube basin, it had direct ties with the south Slavic languages (especially Slovene), some of whose features it has retained to this day.
		For anyone interested in central European, eastern European, and Slavic studies, as well as for the casual tourist, Slovak provides an excellent starting point from which to branch off to any additional Slavic language.
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		It is true, however, that from the dawn of history, among these groups the Slavs occupy a central and predominant position representing the vast majority of all peoples in the whole region.
		The three peoples, Venedi, Sclaveni, and Antes, which the former distinguishes among the Slavs (the latter omits the Venedi, known to earlier writers but not neighboring with the Byzantine Empire), seem to correspond to the Western, Southern, and Eastern Slavs, which until the present remained the main divisions of the Slavic world.
		Following the Croats and Serbs, who moved to the frontiers of Eastern Europe and who were soon to cross those frontiers in their invasion of the Balkans, the Slovenes occupied a territory much larger than present-day Slovenia, and from the Danubian Plain penetrated deep into the Eastern Alps.
	www.okana.org /halecki.html (1064 words)

	History Channel Search Results
		The early Slavs were an obscure group of farmers and herders living in the marshes and woodlands of what is now eastern Poland and western Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.
		Whereas the ancient Slavs probably exhibited considerable racial and cultural homogeneity, the modern Slavic peoples are united mainly by their linguistic affinity and a sense of common origins.
		Although the Slavs created a number of medieval kingdoms between the 9th and 11th centuries, much of their subsequent history was characterized by subjugation within foreign states.
	www.historychannel.com /thcsearch/thc_resourcedetail.do?encyc_id=222494 (703 words)

	The Origin of the Slavs by Joseph Skulj
		The origin of the Slavs is relatively unclear, but the title of your book suggests that you have found the answer.
		Eastern Europe appears to have been the main source of the back-migration, also the Philistine migration, and the slave trade.
		Based on the genetic data available, there is evidence that Slavs developed primarily from two populations who sought refuge during the LGM, one in the Balkans and the other in the Ukraine, and who expanded subsequently from their climatic sanctuaries.
	www.maknews.com /html/articles/skulj/origin_of_the_slavs.html (3561 words)

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		The first to use the term Eastern Europe were French writers in the 18th century, who called it: "L'Europe de L'Est," or Europe of the East.
		The marriage of Jadwiga of the Angevin House of Naples, (niece of Casimir III),and the Lithuanian ruler Vladislav [Wladyslaw] Jagiello [Lith.
		From the17th century onward, it was known as the "Sarmatian" culture, from the name of the ancient eastern tribe that Polish nobles believed to be their ancestor.
	raven.cc.ku.edu /~eceurope/hist557/lect1-2.htm (6232 words)

	Russian Language Facts
		The Slavs expanded westwards to the river Elbe and southwards to the Adriatic Sea.
		Eastern Slavonic gave rise to the modern languages known as Ukrainian, Belorussian and Russian.
		Early Russian history was dominated by the Slavs until the Mongol invasions of the 13th century.
	www.languagehelpers.com /languagefacts/russian.html (1667 words)

	Language \| Bulgaria
		From Bulgaria, the cultural center of the medieval Slavs, the Cyrillic alphabet spread to the neighboring countries, such as Serbia, and to the far-lying Eastern Slavs, the Russians, the Ukrainians, and the Belarussians.
		The Serbs are predominantly Eastern Orthodox and the Croats are mostly Roman Catholic.)
		The Migration of the Slavs to the Balkan Peninsula
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		Almost all of the South Slavs can be traced to ethnic Slavs mixed with the local population of the Balkans (Illyrians, Thracians, Dacians and Getae) and with later invaders from the East (Bulgars, Avars, Alans, Petchenegs, Cumans).
		Some even claim that Slavs existed as an entity as early as the 7th to 5th millennium BC and were ancestors of the Sumerians.
		Sometimes "slav" is calculated to derive from "slov-" by the distinctly Russian phenomenon of akanie.
	koz.vianet.ca /boshis22.htm (1596 words)

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