The Arrival of the Ancient Slavs. Ancient Slavic Expansion. The migration period was a time of great power shifts in Europe as the old Roman Empire broke up and then finally collapsed. During this breakdown of Roman authority many barbarian tribes took advantage of the situation to find new homelands.
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1 The East Slavs have origins in early Slavic tribes who mixed with the local Sarmatian tribes (Alans) and Scythians, Hellenic colonies, as well as Uralic peoples. 2  The East Slavs trace their nation-building to the tribal unions of Kievan Rus' , beginning in the 10th century.
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The South Slavs are a subgroup of Slavic peoples who speak the South Slavic languages. They inhabit a contiguous region in the Balkan Peninsula, southern Pannonian Plain and eastern Alps, and are geographically separated from the body of West Slavic and East Slavic people by the Romanians, Hungarians, and Austrians.
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The South Slavs include the Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Serbs and Slovenes. They are the main population of the Central and Southern European countries of Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia.
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To the North of the Slavs lived the fierce Scandinavians, a society that produced the mighty Vikings and who conquered many lands. Yet amazingly the Slavs survived, and bewilderingly, they even thrived.
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The Slavs expansion of the 5th – 7th centuries reached from the Rhine, to Southern Greece and the Russian steppes. Although experts disagree about how it happened, they all agree that within the short span of 150 years and amazingly uniform culture took over half of Europe.
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Material culture from the Danube suggests that there was an evolution of Slavic society between the early 7th century and the 8th century. As the Byzantines re-asserted the Danubian defences in the mid 6th century, the Slavs' yield of pillaged goods dropped.
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The concept of Yugoslavia, as a single state for all South Slavic peoples, emerged in the late 17th century and gained prominence through the Illyrian movement of the 19th century. The name was coined as a combination of the Slavic words jug (south) and sloveni (Slavs).
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However, in the same text, The Miracles of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki, it is recorded that in 877 “all the Thessaloniki people spoke pure Slavic. The Slavs also were involved in sieges against Constantinople itself, along with a collision of Bulgars, Avars and Gepids.
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The Slavs are an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group living in Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, North Asia and Central Asia, who speak the Indo-European Slavic languages, and share, to varying degrees, certain cultural traits and historical backgrounds.
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who are the slavic peoples
The South Slavs are a subgroup of Slavic peoples who speak the South Slavic languages.