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In the case of South Slavic, they propose migration alongside mixing with native population, a "language shifts to and from Slavic", "whereas the much earlier shift to Slavic in the Byzantine Balkans was probably motivated by the openness of the Slavic tribal groups, which remained the only kind of local social structure after the partial ...
The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages.Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Northern Asia, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, [1] [2] and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the ...
Battle between the Slavs and the Scythians — painting by Viktor Vasnetsov (1881). The early Slavs were speakers of Indo-European dialects [1] who lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages (approximately from the 5th to the 10th centuries AD) in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe and established the foundations for the Slavic nations through the Slavic states of the Early ...
Traditional historiography, based on DAI, holds that the migration of Serbs and Croats to the Balkans was part of a second Slavic wave, placed during Heraclius' reign. [ 36 ] Inhabiting the territory between the Franks in the north and Byzantium in the south, the Slavs were exposed to competing influences. [ 37 ]
Polabian Slavic Tribes, green is uninhabited forested area. The Bavarian Geographer, an anonymous medieval document compiled in Regensburg in 830, contains a list of the tribes in Central Europe to the east of the Elbe.
Map 6: Maximum extent of European territory inhabited by the East Slavic tribes - predecessors of Kievan Rus', the first East Slavic state [10] - in the 8th and 9th century. Antes (common ancestors of the East Slavs; some were also the ancestors of part of West Slavs and South Slavs) Western-Northern groups
The Balto-Slavic language group traditionally comprises the Baltic and Slavic languages, belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. Baltic and Slavic languages share several linguistic traits not found in any other Indo-European branch, which points to a period of common development.
Presumable migration routes of Croats are indicated by arrows, per V.V. Sedov (1979). Migration routes of White Croats from White Croatia. The Slavic theory, in extreme form also known as Pan-Slavic theory, about the idea that the Slavs came to Illyricum from Poland is dating at least since the 12th century. [19]