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Topical outline of articles about Slavic history and culture. 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 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 ...
This is a list of the cultures of Slavic Europe. East Slavs: Culture of Belarus; Culture of Russia; Culture of Kievan Rus' Culture of Ukraine; South Slavs: Culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Culture of Bulgaria; Culture of Croatia; Culture of North Macedonia; Culture of Serbia; Culture of Montenegro; Culture of Slovenia; West Slavs: Culture of ...
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 ...
South Slavic peoples, southern group of Slavic peoples; West Slavic peoples, western group of Slavic peoples; Anti-Slavic sentiment, negative attitude towards Slavic peoples; Pan-Slavic movement, movement in favor of Slavic cooperation and unity; Slavic studies, a multidisciplinary field of studies focused on history and culture of Slavic peoples
Eastern Europe in 3rd to 4th centuries CE, with archeological cultures identified as Baltic-speaking in purple, Slavic-speaking in light brown, and Finno-Ugric-speaking in green During the Migration Period in 5th and 6th centuries CE, the area of archeological cultures identified as Baltic and Slavic became more fragmented.
In Slavic folk culture, laryngeal prominence is called Adam's apple, the forbidden fruit that Adam swallowed. It got stuck in his throat, forming a laryngeal prominence. Eve, after swallowing the fruit, felt attracted to Satan. From the union with Satan was born Cain, from the union with Adam was born Abel. As a result, all idolaters are ...
Al-Masudi, an Arab historian, geographer and traveler, equates the paganism of the Slavs and the Rus' with reason: . There was a decree of the capital of the Khazar khaganate, and there are seven judges in it, two of them from Muslims, two from the Khazars, who judge according to the law of Taura, two from the Christians there, who judge according to the law of Injil, one of them from the ...