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Slavic languages
Slavic languages also called Slavonic languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Because the Slavic group of languages seems to be closer to the Baltic group than to any other, some scholars combine the two in a Balto-Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European classification. Today... Read more
Church Slavonic
Church Slavonic language belonging to the South Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages ). Although it is still the liturgical language of most branches of the Orthodox Eastern Church, Church Slavonic is extinct today as a spoken tongue. ... Read more
Bogomils
Bogomils , members of Europe's first great dualist church, which flourished in Bulgaria and the Balkans from the 10th to the 15th cent. Their creed, adapted from the Paulicians and modified by other Gnostic and Manichaean sources, is attributed to Theophilus or Bogomil, a Bulgarian priest of the 1... Read more
Polish language
Polish language member of the West Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages ). Polish is spoken as a first language by about 38 million people in Poland, where it is the official language; by more than 1 million in the other countries of E... Read more
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik , Ital. Ragusa, city (1991 pop. 49,728), in extreme S Croatia, on a promontory of the Dalmatian coast in the Adriatic Sea. It is a port and tourist and cultural center, with some light industries. Dubrovnik was founded as Ragusium in the 7th cent. by Romans fleeing Slav incursions. Later... Read more
Varangians
Varangians , name given by Slavs and Byzantine Greeks to Scandinavians who began to raid the eastern shores of the Baltic and penetrate Eastern Europe by the 9th cent. Their leader, Rurik , established himself at Novgorod in 862, thus laying the traditional foundation for Kievan Rus . The Varangia... Read more
Slavs
Slavs , the largest ethnic and linguistic group of peoples in Europe belonging to the Indo-European linguistic family. It is estimated that the Slavs number over 300 million in the world. They are usually classified in three main divisions. The West Slavs include the Poles, the Czechs, the Slovaks, ... Read more
The Indo-European Family of Languages
The Indo-European Family of Languages The Indo-European Family of Languages Subfamily Group Subgroup Languages and Principal Dialects  Asterisk indicates a dead language. Anatolian     Hie... Read more
Alphonse Mucha
Alphonse Mucha , 1860-1939, Czech artist. Mucha's art nouveau style, characterized by twisting, swirling flower and hair motifs, set the style for poster art for a generation. He created celebrated posters for Sarah Bernhardt and designed sets and costumes for her plays. In his later works, primar... Read more
Pan-Slavism
Pan-Slavism theory and movement intended to promote the political or cultural unity of all Slavs . Advocated by various individuals from the 17th cent., it developed as an intellectual and cultural movement in the 19th cent. It was stimulated by the rise of romanticism and nationalism, and it grew... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Slavic"

Slavic languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Slavic languages also called Slavonic languages...European family of languages. Because the Slavic group of languages seems to be closer to...some scholars combine the two in a Balto-Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European classification...
Slavic religion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Slavic religion pre-Christian religious practices...their religion or to reconstruct the whole Slavic pantheon. Nevertheless, there were certain...It is generally thought that the earliest Slavic religious beliefs were based on the principle...
Orthodoxy, Russian
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...that had already been translated into Slavic. CHURCH SLAVONIC Whereas Roman Christianity...benefits of adopting Christianity, the East Slavic princes, beginning with Grand Prince...population practicing local paganisms. The Slavic language of this Christian cultural acquisition...
Saints Cyril and Methodius
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...825-885) were the apostles of the Slavic peoples. Preaching Christianity in the native language, they brought the Slavic countries firmly into the sphere of...Thessalonica, the brothers could speak Slavic. When the Moravian king Ratislav...
Church Slavonic
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Church Slavonic language belonging to the South Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages ). Although it is still the liturgical language of most branches...
Paganism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...churches, Christianity largely replaced Slavic paganism during the course of the ninth...primarily three sources for information about Slavic paganism: written accounts, archaeological...missionaries, much of what is known about East Slavic paganism from written accounts is of questionable...
Panslavism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...in a collective destiny for the various Slavic peoples — generally, but far...the leadership of Russia, the largest Slavic group or nation. Thus the seventeenth...language. However, despite his belief in Slavic unity, he turned against Russia following...
Siberiaki
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Siberiachi; Siberian Cossacks; Sibiriaki; Slavic Siberians; Ukrainian Siberians. Local...East. They are primarily families of Slavic, especially Russian, background who...derogatorily by more recently urbanized Slavic newcomers to Siberia, but it is also...
Slavs
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Illyrian tribes. The Bulgarians are not of Slavic origin. The obscure beginnings of the...There was presumably no one Proto-Slavic language, but rather a blending of tribal dialects that emerged as differentiated Slavic languages; the Slavs' unifying medium...
Bulgarian language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Bulgarian language member of the South Slavic group of the Slavonic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages ). Bulgarian is the native...people from Asia, they merged with the Slavic tribes whom they conquered in the 7th...

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Slavic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...includes Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian ( East Slavic ), Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Sorbian ( West Slavic ), and Bulgarian, Serbo-Croat, Macedonian, and Slovene ( South Slavic ). ∎  of, relating to, or denoting...
Cyril, St
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...also for the liturgy, and circulated a Slavic version of the scriptures. His feast...the Cyrillic alphabet , used by many Slavic peoples, chiefly those with a historical...Serbian, Ukrainian, and some other Slavic languages.
Slavonic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English Sla·von·ic / sləˈvänik / • adj. & n. another term for Slavic . See also Church Slavic .
Cyrillic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...rilik / • adj. denoting the alphabet used by many Slavic peoples, chiefly those with a historical allegiance to the...used for Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and other Slavic languages. • n. the Cyrillic alphabet.
Slav
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English Slav / släv / • n. a member of a group of peoples in central and eastern Europe speaking Slavic languages. • adj. another term for Slavic .
old
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...social background. Old Church Slavonic the oldest recorded Slavic language, as used by the apostles Cyril and Methodius and surviving...12th centuries. It is related particularly to the Southern Slavic languages. Old Colony an informal name for Massachusetts...
Balch, Emily Greene
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...Assistance of the Poor in France , at a time when few other sociologists were doing so. However, her best-known volume is Our Slavic Fellow Citizens (1910), which pre-dated and in some ways complemented the much-praised and more widely recognized work...
Francis Ferdinand
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...and their presumptive to Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH . He aimed to transform AUSTRIA-HUNGARY into a triple monarchy to include a Slavic kingdom. He was opposed by the Hungarians, who refused to make concessions to Slavs, and by extreme Slav nationalists (including...
Polish
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English Pol·ish / ˈpōli sh / • adj. of or relating to Poland, its inhabitants, or their language. • n. the West Slavic language of Poland.
exact
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...science yet. • v. [ tr. ] demand and obtain (something, esp. a payment) from someone: tributes exacted from the Slavic peoples. ∎  inflict (revenge) on someone: a frustrated woman bent on exacting a cruel revenge for his...

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Common and Comparative Slavic: Phonology and Inflection with Special Attention to Russian, Czech, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 9/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...Townsend and Laura A. Janda. Common and Comparative Slavic: Phonology and Inflection with Special Attention...to provide a linguistic introduction to Common Slavic, and to the selected Slavic languages named in the title. Townsend and Janda...
Trevorton native pens book on Slavic heritage.
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Sifting the Evidence for the Reconstruction of Pannonian Slavic*
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Russian vurdalak 'vampire' and related forms in Slavic *.
Magazine article from: Journal of Slavic Linguistics; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...the distribution of related forms in Slavic and suggests that the Croatian surname...vampire') and related forms in Slavic and neighboring languages may be traced back to Indo-European via proto-Slavic. The development of this hypothesis...
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Using participatory design to improve Web sites: after I digitized medieval Slavic manuscripts, I learned why there are so few Web sites about medieval studies and how participatory design can help build useful ones.
Magazine article from: Computers in Libraries; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...treasures for further study by digitizing Slavic medieval manuscripts. A great deal of...professors of library history, art history, Slavic languages, and medieval hypertextuality...have distanced and marginalized southern Slavic medieval studies. Vassari's 16th...
Polish-Slavic group flourishes in Brooklyn. (Polish and Slavic Federal Credit Union, Brooklyn, New York)
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Slavic Festival grows up for its encore.(Entertainment)(The sights and sounds of Eastern Europe capture the Lane Events Center)
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