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Slavia, a general term for an area inhabited by Slavs; Slawiya, one of the tribal centers of early East Slavs; The medieval name for the Wendish settlement area; The medieval name for the duchy of Pomerania
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 ...
Thematic exhibition about slava, Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade Slava (Serbian: Слава, lit. 'Celebration', pronounced) is a family's annual ceremony and veneration of their patron saint.
The origin of the Slavic autonym *Slověninъ is disputed.. According to Roman Jakobson's opinion, modified by Oleg Trubachev (Трубачёв) [15] and John P. Maher, [16] the name is related to the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) root *ḱlew-seen in slovo ("word") and originally denoted "people who speak (the same language)", i.e. people who understand each other, in contrast to the Slavic word ...
the Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian and Slovene name for Slavia, a general term for an area inhabited by Slavs. Places. Slavija Square, a public square in Belgrade, Serbia;
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the Early Middle Ages, which in turn is thought to have descended from the earlier Proto-Balto-Slavic language, linking the Slavic languages to the Baltic ...
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
Given names originating from the Slavic languages are most common in Slavic countries.. The main types of Slavic names: . Two-base names, often ending in mir/měr (Ostromir/měr, Tihomir/měr, Němir/měr), *voldъ (Vsevolod, Rogvolod), *pъlkъ (Svetopolk, Yaropolk), *slavъ (Vladislav, Dobroslav, Vseslav) and their derivatives (Dobrynya, Tishila, Ratisha, Putyata, etc.)