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The East Slavs are the most populous subgroup of the Slavs. [3] 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.
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 ...
The Slavs or Slavic people is the largest ethnic group in Europe. [1] They predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Southeastern Europe.There is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, [2] [3] and a substantially dispersed Slavic population in the Americas, Western Europe, and Northern Europe.
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
Eastern Europe after 1945 usually meant all the European countries liberated from Nazi Germany and then occupied by the Soviet army. It included the German Democratic Republic (also known as East Germany), formed by the Soviet occupation zone of Germany. All the countries in Eastern Europe adopted communist modes of control by 1948.
This map was created with Inkscape. This is a retouched picture , which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Change colors to detach South Slavic countries .
The factual accuracy of this map or the file name ... Countries where a West Slavic language is the national language . Countries where an East Slavic language is the ...
Severia (Old East Slavic: Сѣверія, romanized: Sěverìja, Russian: Северщина, romanized: Severshchina) or Siveria (Ukrainian: Сіверія / Сіверщина, romanized: Siveria / Sivershchyna) is a historical region in present-day southwest Russia, northern Ukraine, and eastern Belarus.