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Map 7: West Slav tribes in 9th and 10th centuries Map 8: Slavic Bohemian tribes shown in various colors and Moravians in red, on a map of modern Czech Republic. Veneti / Wends Lechitic ancestors of West Slavs; some were also the ancestors of part of South Slavs. Czech–Moravian-Slovak group
The proto-Slavic term Slav shares roots with Slavic terms for speech, word, and perhaps was used by early Slavic people themselves to denote other people, who spoke languages similar to theirs. The first written use of the name "Slavs" dates to the 6th century, when the Slavic tribes inhabited a large portion of Central and Eastern Europe.
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 ...
South Slavic tribes (3 C, 9 P) W. West Slavic tribes (4 C, 25 P) Pages in category "Ancient Slavic peoples" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The Slavs were a diverse group of tribal societies in the Iron Age and Migration Age Europe whose tribal organizations created the foundations for today's Slavic nations. [ 1 ] The tribes were later replaced or consolidated around Kiev by states containing a mixture of Slavs , Varangians and Finno-Ugric groups, starting with the formation of ...
This outline is an overview of Slavic topics; for outlines related to specific Slavic groups and topics, see the links in the Other Slavic outlines section below. The Slavs are a collection of peoples who speak the various Slavic languages , belonging to the larger Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages .
Seven slavic tribes during the foundation of the First Bulgarian Empire in 681. The Seven Slavic tribes (Bulgarian: Седемте славянски племена, romanized: Sedemte slavyanski plemena), or the Seven clans (Bulgarian: Седемте рода, romanized: Sedemte roda) were a union of Slavic tribes in the Danubian Plain, that was established around the middle of the 7th ...
After mixing with the natives who survived in smaller communities, depending on the region, the Slavic tribes mostly had names of toponymic origin. [74] Approximate location of South Slavic tribes, per V. V. Sedov 1995. Slavs established dense settlements in Southeast Europe, more precisely in the Praetorian prefecture of Illyricum: