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| | Slavic peoples : Slavs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) |
 | | Customarily Slavs are subdivided into east Slavs (including Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians[?] and Lippovan[?] Russians), west Slavs (chiefly Poles, Kaschubians[?], Slovincians[?], Masurians[?], Czechs, Slovaks[?], and Sorbs and south Slavs (including Serbs, Croats, Bosnian Muslims, the Serbo-Croat groups Bunjevci[?] or 'Bunjewatsen' and Sokci[?], Slovenians, Macedonian Slavs, Bulgarians and the Pomaks. |
 | | Slavs historically were described as Venedes[?] or Wends, but their connection to Veneds mentioned by Tacitus, Ptolemy and Plinius, is uncertain, and similarity of name may be accidental. |
 | | Prehistorically, the original habitat of the Slavs, as of all Indoeuropeans, was Asia, from which they migrated in the 3rd or 2nd millennium BC to populate parts of eastern Europe. |
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