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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
They speak the East Slavic languages, [4] and formed the majority of the population of the medieval state Kievan Rus', which they claim as their cultural ancestor. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Today Belarusians , Russians and Ukrainians are the existent East Slavic nations.
Seven Slavic tribes (or Seven Slavic Clans) (Heptaradici / Eptaradici - "Seven Roots"?), tribal confederation, in northern Bulgaria and Southern Romania that formed the basis of the Slavic Bulgarians (after later being conquered by the Turkic origin Bulgars that formed much of the Aristocracy and led to the name change of the people and language).
The Slavic territories were mostly abandoned, because the Celtic and Germanic tribes that lived there before had moved west. [15] Chronologically, the first group of Slavs were those that dwelt by the Dnieper River, the second was the Sukov-Dzidzice type Slavs, and the last were groups of Avaro-Slavic peoples from the Danube river areas. [16]
Slavianism or Slavism (Russian: Славянство, romanized: Slavyanstvo) is a general term for Slavic culture, civilization and identity. It may refer to: Slavs, an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group; Pan-Slavism, a political ideology; Slavic culture, various cultures of Slavic Europe