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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
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
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
Rurik
Rurik , d. 879, semilegendary Varangian warrior, regarded as the founder of the princely dynasty of Kievan Rus . Rurik and his two brothers, at the head of an armed band, apparently seized Novgorod and nearby districts (c.862). According to unreliable early accounts, they had been invited by the ... Read more
Anastasius I
Anastasius I , c.430-518, Roman emperor of the East (491-518); successor of Zeno, whose widow he married. He broke the power that the Isaurians had enjoyed since Leo I, made peace with Persia, maintained friendly relations with Theodoric the Great, and made Clovis I an ally. He built a wall to prote... Read more
Eastern Bulgars
Eastern Bulgars , Turkic-speaking people, who possessed a powerful state (10th-14th cent.) at the confluence of the Volga and the Kama, E European Russia. The Bulgars appeared on the Middle Volga by the 8th cent. and became known as the Eastern, Volga, or Kama Bulgars. Another branch of the same peo... Read more
Dnieper
Dnieper , Rus. Dnepr, Ukr. Dnipro, river, c.1,430 mi (2,300 km) long, in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. One of the longest rivers in Europe, it rises in the Valdai Hills, W of Moscow. It flows generally S past Smolensk, through Belarus, past Mogilev, then through Ukraine, past Kiev, Cherkasy, Kre... Read more
Basil I
Basil I (Basil the Macedonian) , c.813-886, Byzantine emperor (867-86). His ancestors probably were Armenians or Slavs who settled in Macedonia. He became (c.856) the favorite of Emperor Michael III . In 886, Basil, with the aid of Michael, assassinated Michael's uncle and chief minister, Bardas,... Read more
Brest
Brest , formerly Brest-Litovsk , Pol. Brześć nad Bugiem, city (1989 pop. 258,016), capital of Brest region, W Belarus, at the confluence of the Western Bug and Mukhavets rivers near the Polish border. As a point of entry into Belarus, it has industrial, commercial, and transportation ... 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

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Slavs
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Slavs , the largest ethnic and linguistic group...linguistic family. It is estimated that the Slavs number over 300 million in the world. They...classified in three main divisions. The West Slavs include the Poles, the Czechs, the Slovaks...
Slavic religion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Christian religious practices among the Slavs of Eastern Europe. There is only fragmentary...about the myths and legends of the pagan Slavs, and it is not possible to trace the history...common beliefs among most pre-Christian Slavs. It is generally thought that the earliest...
Pan-Slavism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the political or cultural unity of all Slavs . Advocated by various individuals from...and it grew with the awakening of the Slavs within the Austrian and Ottoman empires...spread a national consciousness among the Slavs, and some dreamed of a unified Slavic...
Polish Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America ...three distinct subgroups: the West, East, and South Slavs. It was the West Slavs who became the ancestors of modern Poles, settling...regarding matters other than military. These West Slavs slowly joined in ever-larger units under the pressure...
Orthodoxy, Russian
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...RUSSIAN ORTHODOXY, RUSSIAN. When the East Slavs adopted Christianity in the tenth century...close enough to the vernacular of the East Slavs to be understood. Subsequently, East...remained fixed. Thus did the East Slavs adopt Christianity in a language that grew...
Paganism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...As literacy was introduced to the East Slavs only with their conversion to Christianity...pagan temples, particularly among the West Slavs on the island of R ü gen in the...widespread Indo-European practice, the early Slavs likely cremated their dead, but even before...
Balkans
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...and the Adriatic Sea to the west: South Slavs, Romanians, Greeks, Albanians, and Turks. The most numerous group, the South Slavs, comprises five nations, settled in a...the Bulgarians along the Black Sea. The Slavs arrived in the sixth century and began...
Austria-Hungary and the Middle East
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...both Christians and Muslims, most of them Slavs. Russia was in the process of instigating...movement (in an attempt to link Russian Slavs with Poland and the Balkans and gain access...the Ottoman Empire. Austro-Hungarian Slavs included Poles, Ukrainians, Czechs...
Slav Macedonians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Slav Macedonians ETHNONYMS: Macedonians, Skopje Slavs, Vardar Slavs Orientation Identification. The name "Macedonia...literature. The various dialects traditionally spoken by the Slavs of Macedonia are closely related to Bulgarian, belonging...
Danilevsky, Nikolai Yakovlevich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...Cultural and Political Relations of the Slavs to the Germano-Latin World, published...that "even today [in the Balkans] the Slavs prefer the heavy yoke of Islam to the civilized...This expansionist motivation allowed Slavs to become united as "brothers" around...

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Slavs
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Slavs Peoples who occupied eastern Europe in ancient times...After the collapse of the HUNS in the 5th century the Slavs migrated westwards to the Elbe, the Baltic, the...Constantinople evangelized the Slovenes or southern Slavs.
Apostles of the Southern Slavs
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Apostles of the Southern Slavs (Christian missionary brothers): see CYRIL AND METHODIUS .
Pan-Slavism
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...movement intended to bring about the political unity of all Slavs. It should be distinguished from both Slavophilism, which...and from Austro-Slavism, which sought to improve the lot of Slavs within AUSTRIA-HUNGARY . The aim of Pan-Slavism was to destroy...
Ibrāhīm Ibn Ya‘qūb Al-Isrā’īlī Al-Turṭushi
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...interest in the history of medieval cultures. He writes that the Slavs have no bathhouses but that they erect a wooden house and caulk...were made also for the sick and wounded. The fragments on the Slavs have been much studied in eastern Europe, and the portions...
Orthodox Church
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...missionary work of Paul , and itself became missionary, achieving notably the conversion of the Slavs through the ‘apostles of the Slavs’, Cyril and Methodius. Russia became a Christian kingdom under St Vladimir in 988...
Wyoming Valley, Settlement of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...In the 1880s, rich anthracite coal deposits drew many new immigrants into the valley: Irish, Welsh, Poles, and other Slavs were prominent among the new wave. This influx was also ultimately absorbed into the already richly varied population. Although...
Cyrillic
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Cyrillic. The alphabet used by the Slavonic peoples of the E. Church. It was named after St Cyril , one of the ‘Apostles of the Slavs’, though Glagolitic , not Cyrillic, is generally believed to be the alphabet he invented.
Final Solution
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...x201D; was never achieved, but some 6 million Jews and large numbers of other “undesirable” minorities (Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, Seventh Day Adventists, political dissidents, and others) from all over Europe were systematically...
Francis Ferdinand
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...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 Serbs), who saw no future for the emergent nations within the empire. On 28...
Francis Joseph
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...ultimately resulted in World War I. His wife Elizabeth was assassinated by the Italian anarchist Lucheni. Opposed to social reform, Francis Joseph maintained administrative centralization and opposed the federalist aspirations of the Slavs.

Thesaurus entries related to "Slavs"

apostle
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...apostle • noun   1. the twelve apostles synonyms : disciple, follower.   2. the apostles of the Slavs synonyms : missionary, evangelist, proselytizer.   3. an apostle of capitalism synonyms : advocate, apologist...
delegate
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...pass on, hand on/over, turn over, devolve, depute, transfer.   2. they were delegated to negotiate with the Slavs synonyms : authorize, commission, depute, appoint, nominate, mandate, empower, charge, choose, designate, elect.

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The Early Slavs. Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; P.M. Barford. The Early Slavs. Culture and Society in Early Medieval...admirably captures the history of the early Slavs from the fifth to the eleventh centuries...construction of the history of the early Slavs. The introduction provides a helpful...
Setting Slavs free.(West should keep doors open to Slavic countries that may wish to join European Union)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 7/24/1999; 700+ words ; There is no reason why Slavs cannot be democrats ARE Slavs and democracy destined not to mix? From the harsh plains...Sea across ten time-zones to Siberia's Pacific coast, Slavs have had but feeble and fleeting experiences of gentle or...
Kushner's `Slavs!': Genius isn't enough
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/6/1995; ; 700+ words ; SLAVS! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems...through May 7 PROVIDENCE -- Tony Kushner's "Slavs!" is not a good play, and indeed in some...them and added more material to create "Slavs!" for the Actors Theater of Louisville...
Cyril and Methodius of Thessalonica: The Acculturation of the Slavs
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Thessalonica: The Acculturation of the Slavs. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary...disciples in Bulgaria, their legacy to the Slavs, and the development of the cults of St...The aim of this project was to bring the Slavs into the cultural domain of the empire...
`Slavs!': Groucho Marxists
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/13/1995; ; 700+ words ; In "Slavs!" playwright Tony Kushner ("Angels in...Kushner seems interested in answering. "Slavs!" isn't a critique of socialism, or...hospital sequence is the only part of "Slavs!" with any emotional depth. Even if you...
Trinity Rep snares Kushner's `Slavs!'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/24/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...booked Tony Kushner's latest play, "Slavs!," at Trinity's Downstairs Theater...has given Eustis production rights to "Slavs!" for the 1994-95 Trinity season...it may be only an East Coast coup. "Slavs!" premiered this spring in Louisville...
Land of southern Slavs mired in a divided past; Centuries of grudges, hatreds and suspicions among Yugoslavia's ethnic groups leave few paths to peace.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 4/18/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...without putting it in the context of how Yugoslavia came together and came apart. . Enter the Slavs Yugoslavia means "land of the southern Slavs." Slavs are a large ethnic group that includes Russians, Poles, Czechs and Slovaks, among others...
Distrust, anger growing between Slavs, Albanians in Macedonia.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 3/26/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...tolerance amid the ethnic wars of the Balkans _ Slavs and Albanians lived and worked together...long time before the relationship heals. Slavs are starting to arm themselves against...Macedonia. For 10 years Albanians and Slavs co-existed _ if not as complete equals...
Kushner's `Perestroika' Opens Door to `Slavs!'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/15/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...into a one-act play. The result was "Slavs!," subtitled "Thinking About the Longstanding...dialectic of hope and despair continues. "Slavs!" received its world premiere in February...production. Although billed as a one-act, "Slavs!" is really a short three-act play...
The Early Slavs
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review; 7/1/2002; ; 384 words ; The Early Slavs, by P.M. Barford. Having weathered...given his minimum attention to the South Slavs, while over emphasizing Polish sources...covered is 5th century A.D., when the Slavs first appear as an entity in the historical...