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  • The Prague Slavic Congress of 1848 was a major event in the Europe of upheavals of 1848. It was a time of revolution. Individual nations oppressed ...
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  • , russkiye), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily ... *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages ...
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  • The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Old East Slavic language: Слово о плъку Игоревѣ, Slovo o plŭku Igorevě; Modern Ukrainian: ...
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  • The Prague Slavic Congress of 1848 was a major event in the Europe of upheavals of 1848. It was a time of revolution. Individual nations oppressed ...
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  • of Saints Cyril and Methodius among the Slavic peoples is also very interesting ... testimony on the earliest history of East Slavic peoples. Its comprehensive ...
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  • a zealous pagan, devoting himself to the Slavic-Norse deities, establishing ... his younger brother Oleg, who ruled the Slavic tribe known as the Drevlians ...
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  • ===Slavic Orthodox Christianity=== Lossky's Гносеология or gnosiology called Intuitivist-Personalism in part adapted the Hegelian ...
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  • and Slovak national revival movements and Slavic philologist of European acclaim. culture while realizing the extent of Slavic oppression. While most of ...
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  • German people and began to expand towards Slavic populated lands to the east ... extension of Bulgarian control over the Slavic tribes in and around Macedonia ...
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  • accomplishment, avoiding the overly pro-Slavic style of many contemporaries ... verse. Many of his works are full of Slavic themes. However, his lasting ...
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  • or enslave the Polish, Russian, and other Slavic populations, whom they regarded ... he explained with regard to the Latin and Slavic races, "Without war ...
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  • influenced the cultural development of all Slavic peoples for which they received ... send missionaries to evangelize his Slavic subjects. His motives in ...
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  • ==Incorporation of Slavic lands== [[Image:Lithuania Raudone Gediminas ... While exploiting Slavic weakness in the wake of the Mongol invasion ...
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  • believer in Yugoslav unity and quasi-racial Slavic nationalism before World War I. His political career, combined with extraliterary factors, contributed ...
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  • on the importance of Russia's Slavic roots and traditions. He ... and the Critique of Russia." Slavic Review 50, No. 4 (Winter ...
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  • as a "tribal character" of the Slavic peoples and, in particular, of the Russian nation. Solovyov believed that Russia had a special ...
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  • German nationalists to be synonymous with "Slavic Europe," as opposed to Germanic (Western) Europe. This concept was re-enforced during the ...
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  • ===Slavic mythology=== [[Image:Zmey_Gorynych.jpg|thumb|200 px|right ... Dragons of Slavic mythology, known as zmeys (Russian), smok (Belarussian ...
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  • into English. The German form came from Slavic and Slovak variants, such ... ===Slavic vampires=== In Slavic lore, causes of vampirism include being ...
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  • of places imposed by the new inhabitants, Slavic peoples. These people became ... that Silesia was populated by early Slavic tribes between the fifth ...
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  • Sviatoslav I of Kiev (East Slavic: Святослав, ca. 942 – 972) was the warrior prince (or konung) of Kievan Rus'. The son of Igor ...
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  • of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest ... and partly adopted form of the South Slavic Old Church Slavonic language ...
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  • Yaroslav I the Wise (c. 978 - February 20, 1054) (East Slavic: Ярослав Мудрый; Christian name: George; Old Norse: Jarizleifr) was ...
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  • Church Slavonic language with many South Slavic elements. The first work ... in Kiev in 1674. Synopsis was the first Slavic textbook on history. It was ...
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  • basin, the Magyars found a mainly Slavic population there. one and borrowed hundreds of agricultural Slavic words. See History of Hungary ...
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  • the capital of Gardariki (i.e., the East Slavic lands). Four Viking kings—Olaf ... and began a cultural interchange. East Slavic tribes from Byzantine began ...
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  • Church Slavonic bible manuscripts,” South Slavic and Balkan linguistics, (Rodopi, 1982), p. 230; Mathiesen, R., “The Importance of the Bitola Inscription ...
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  • The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script, or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated ...
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  • example, the Christian missionaries who converted Slavic tribes found Elijah to be an ideal analogy for Perun, the supreme Slavic god of storms, thunder ...
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  • crossed over the left shoulder. In the Slavic practice, the deacon wears ... worn by all orders of clergy. In the Slavic practice, married clergy ...
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  • on the crossroads of major Germanic and Slavic tribes during the Migration ... in the seventh century, Bohemia's Slavic inhabitants appeared in the ...
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  • During the early Middle Ages, Slavic tribesmen inhabiting what is ... going from the west to the east. The best Slavic barrow sites can be found ...
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  • ) derives from Proto-Slavic vòlga meaning "wetness, moisture ... an important trade route where not only Slavic, Turkic, and Finnic peoples ...
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  • The Slavic tribes settled in Slovakia in the fifth century, with the ... the process of the pacification of Slavic tribes, who were thus able ...
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  • and "Slavophiles," who embraced their Slavic roots and traditions in the face of greater Western influence. == Life == Born in 1745 ...
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  • a militant attitude towards the Slavic nations. Media.Hoover.org, [http://media.hoover.org/documents/0817944915_146.pdf Letter by Mommsen.] Retrieved ...
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  • Europe, including the division of the East Slavic people into three separate ... #039;, centered on the destruction of East Slavic principalities of Kiev and ...
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  • they may be found in neighborhoods with heavily Slavic populations, such as New York's East Village or Coney Island in Brooklyn, or in areas ...
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  • ===Slavic invasion=== South Slavic tribes settled in the territory of the present-day Republic ...
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  • #039;s oversight. However, by allowing the use of Slavic in the liturgy in Moravia (Slovenia), and appointing the popular Bishop (later Saint]] Methodius ...
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  • #039;s version. The story was set in a Middle-Age Slavic background, and the characters speak Old Russian in the vein of traditional tales. (Old Russian ...
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  • Russia had considered itself the leader of the Slavic world and viewed the invasion as another step towards annexing Serbia and Montenegro. To counter ...
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  • of friends he obtained admission into the Slavic Greek Latin Academy. There his progress was very rapid, especially in Latin, and in 1734 he ...
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  • * The flag of Russia, the source for the Pan-Slavic colors has been adopted by many Slavic states and peoples. Examples: Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia ...
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  • extended east towards Moscow, until the Finnish and Slavic tribes rebelled and drove the Varangians overseas. Similarly, the Sami peoples were frequently ...
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  • population at that time was composed of Slavic, Finnic, and Norse peoples ... the ninth century. Three others are East Slavic sources from the eleventh ...
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  • killed after returning from a military parade. Slavic patriotism, cultural revival, and Panslavist ideas grew in importance in the latter half of this ...
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  • ascribes it to the corruption of the old Slavic "Braslava." It ... from 623 to 658, having established a Slavic empire in the fashion of ...
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  • (as may be seen in Greek, Norse, or Slavic folktales, along with Native ... *Slavic mythology – Veles *Tibetan folklore – Uncle Tompa ...
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  • at the crossroads of Germanic, Latin, and Slavic cultures. ... It could derive from the ancient Slavic city called Laburus,City ...
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  • The second phase, between 500 and 900 C.E., saw Slavic, Turkic and other tribes on the move, re-settling in Eastern Europe and gradually making ...
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  • #039;s City and the Napoleonic Plan." Slavic Review 35 (1976): 37-47. #039;s Crime and Punishment." Slavic and East European Journal 4:127-36 ...
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  • Croats and Serbs with other South Slavic ex-Austro-Hungarian territories ... * 23,228 other Southern Slavic dialects, mainly Bunjevac and Šokac ...
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  • in this respect they may be compared to the Slavic Rusalki or the Greek sirens. ==Apsaras in ancient literature== [[Image:Golden Celestial Nymph ...
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  • Limits of the Work-Centered Poetics." Slavic Review 49: 3 (1990): 409-426. ... Analysis of Sound in Poetry." The Slavic and East European Journal ...
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  • #039;s Political Thought," American Slavic and East European Review ... #039;s Political Thought," American Slavic and East European Review ...
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  • they were exacting tribute from the neighboring Slavic tribes and they fought occasionally as mercenaries on behalf of King Carloman of Bavaria, King ...
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  • and some Yiddish. Specialty libraries, like the Slavic and Baltic division, can lend a hand with, for example, Albanian. Every day, except Sundays ...
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  • had been instrumental in the exploitation of East Slavic people and had exerted undue influence on the sociopolitical and economic landscape of the early ...
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  • enrolled in Trinity College, Cambridge, studying Slavic and Romance languages. In 1923, he graduated from Cambridge and relocated to Berlin, where he ...
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  • plóvum. This term was borrowed into Balto-Slavic languages, such as Old Church ... . Old words in connected with the heavy plow and its use appear in ...
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  • representative of the Tristan story in a Slavic language. ... finally reaching a last outpost in this Slavic dialect. ...
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  • The name Dubrovnik originates from the Proto-Slavic term for an oak ... port. Some time later, a settlement of Slavic people grew at the foot of ...
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  • to Islam ceased to be Slav, since Slavic identity was so closely associated with Orthodox Christianity that conversion to "any other religion ...
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  • or Poland, perceived by him as a Judas to pan-Slavic interests. The failure of the Crimean War made him look critically at the Russian government ...
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  • of Bucharest, 1920-1940." Slavic Review 61 (2002): 388. ISSN 0037-6779 * Morintz, Sebastian, and D. V. Rosetti, (Chapter I) "Din cele ...
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  • and Ruthenians, and was at least half-Slavic. Jogaila, the eponymous first Jagiello ruler, started as the Grand Duke of Lithuania. He then converted ...
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  • The Slavic Duchy of Karantania mainly occupied the territory of today ... in a Slovenian dialect and the first-ever Slavic document in Latin script ...
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  • posthumously (1909). Sometimes cited as a Slavic counterpart to the accursed poets, Annensky managed to render into Russian the essential intonations ...
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  • quot; comes from the German Quarz, which is of Slavic origin (Czech miners called it křem). Some sources, however, trace the word to the Saxon term ...
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  • Italic, Venetic, Illyrian, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, Thracian, and Greek branches of Indo-European. Mallory, 1989, 152–153 Both mainstream Urheimat ...
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  • the Avars in the ninth century. The Slavic name Beligrad appeared around 878, during the rule of the First Bulgarian Empire. The city remained ...
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  • By the late twelfth century C.E., a Slavic settlement called Drežďany ("alluvial forest dwellers") had developed on the southern ...
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  • The name Međugorje is of Slavic origin and translates as "area ... of Čitluk. The name Međugorje is of Slavic origin and literally means ...
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  • quot;: the Case for Joint Authorship. Canadian Slavic Studies, Winter, 1976, 534-51. ==External Links== All links retrieved January 26, 2023. ...
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  • After the Slavic invasions of the Balkan Peninsula in the fifth and ... of west Scandinavia were plundered by Slavic pirates from the southwest ...
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  • The name Zagreb most likely derives from the common Slavic word "zagrabiti" ( to scoop ). One legend about the origins of the name involves ...
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  • will be burned at his funeral. In the Slavic practice, the Stavrophore ... . The Greek form does not have a hood, the Slavic form has a hood and lappets ...
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  • * LaBauve, Maurice. Hesychasm, word-weaving, and Slavic hagiography: The literary school of Patriarch Euthymius. Hébert Sagner, 1992. ISBN 9783876905 ...
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  • The name Berlin may derive from the old (West Slavic) Polabian stem ... by Germanic tribes. About 720 C.E., two Slavic tribes settled in the Berlin ...
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  • Works of Evgenij Zamjatin by Alex M. Shane |journal=Slavic and East European Journal |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=388-390 |id= |accessdate= ...
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  • several times before finally taking the chair of Slavic Philology at the University of Vienna (1922–1938). On settling in Vienna, he became a geographically ...
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  • In order to defend against Hungarian and Slavic invaders, the small fishing village was quickly transformed into an extremely strong defensive ...
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  • ===Slavic invasion=== [[Image:Bulgaria Simeon I (893-927).svg|right ... Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (575–641) commissioned Slavic tribal ...
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  • in the cognate traditions of the Southern Slavic regions which would later ... papers based on his own fieldwork on South Slavic oral genres, emphasizing ...
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  • of Kievan Rus', a medieval East Slavic state. Destroyed during the ... and made it the center of the first East Slavic state, Kievan Rus. The introduction ...
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  • invading foreign lands, such as Spain and the pagan Slavic territories to the east, the kings are known as rois fainéants ("do-nothing kings" ...
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  • between the Mongols and the East Slavic warriors. * 1226: Invasion of the Western Xia, being the second battle with the Western Xia. ...
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  • Polish: wiec) was a popular assembly in medieval Slavic countries, and in late medieval period, a parliament. The idea of the wiec led in 1182 to the ...
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  • where the Teutonic Knights were defeated by the Slavic forces at the Battle of Grunwald (referred to in German as Schlacht bei Tannenberg--that is ...
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  • Russian and East European History and Culture (Slavic and East European Information Resources, Volume 4, Number 4 2003), eds. Jared S. Ingersoll and ...
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  • Legion and worked to encourage all of the Slavic peoples to claim their independence. He inspired the April uprising of 1867, which itself encouraged ...
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  • it was one of the three most important East Slavic powers to have emerged from the collapse of Kievan Rus'. The century during which the ...
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  • ====Slavic==== [[Image:Herb Boreyko.jpg|thumb|The Boreyko Coat of Arms.]] The swastika shape was also present in pre-Christian Slavic mythology ...
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  • ===Slavic settlement=== [[Image:Bihacka-kula.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Bihaćka ... eighth and early ninth centuries, causing Slavic tribal structure to give ...
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  • and the Jews (University of Texas Press Slavic series) (Hardcover) 2 Joseph ... and the Jews. University of Texas Press Slavic series, 1981. ISBN 0292715285 ...
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  • ;Firebird: In Slavic folklore, the Firebird is a magical glowing bird from a faraway land. Usually described as a large bird with majestic plumage ...
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  • ===Slavic tribal society=== Whether Slavic tribes were indigenous to the lands that were to become ...
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  • cross, Eastern cross, Russian cross, Slavic or Slavonic cross. A three-barred cross in which the short top bar represents the inscription over ...
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  • Pravda and Tsarist Censorship." The American Slavic and East European Review (1954) During this period, the editorial board of Pravda often ...
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  • had strong Russophile sentiments for their Slavic brethern, and the political and military position of Turkey remained unclear. The 'symbolic ...
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