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I know Slavics live in Eastern Europe , but where do they originally come from?

2007-08-02 20:17:39 · 4 answers · asked by Adam 2 in Society & Culture Languages

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"The Slavic peoples are a linguistic and ethnic branch of Indo-European peoples, living mainly in Europe. Since emerging from their original homeland (most commonly thought to be in Eastern Europe) in the early 6th century, they have inhabited most of eastern Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

The location of the speakers of pre-Proto-Slavic and Proto-Slavic is subject to considerable debate. Serious candidates are cultures on the territories of modern Belarus, Poland, European Russia and Ukraine. The proposed frameworks are:

1. Lusatian culture hypothesis: The pre-Proto-Slavs were present in north-eastern Central Europe since at least the late 2nd millennium BC, and were the bearers of the Lusatian culture and later the Przeworsk culture (part of the Chernyakhov culture).
2. Milograd culture hypothesis: The pre-Proto-Slavs (or Balto-Slavs) were the bearers of the Milograd culture
3. Chernoles culture hypothesis: The pre-Proto-Slavs were the bearers of the Chernoles culture of northern Ukraine

The starting point in the autochtonic/allochtonic debate was the year 1745, when Johann Christoph de Jordan published De Originibus Slavicis. From the 19th century onwards, the debate became politically charged, particularly in connection with the history of the Partitions of Poland and German imperialism known as Drang nach Osten. The question as to whether Germanic or Slavic peoples were autochthonous on the land east of the Vistula river was used by factions to pursue their respective German and Polish political claims to governance of those lands."

2007-08-02 21:16:28 · answer #1 · answered by Jelena L. 4 · 1 2

Ancient Roman ethnographers noted a tribe called the Venedes who lived in the "barbarian" lands beyond the Roman Empire. They were located around the Vistula River in modern-day Poland. Scholars believe the Venedes were the same people as the original Slavs. The name "Venede" is most likely related to the word "Wend", which was used by the Germans of the early Middle Ages to describe the Slavs living closest to Germany.

2007-08-03 03:54:49 · answer #2 · answered by Wicaco 3 · 0 0

Their original homeland is believed to have been in Belarus or White Russia, just east of present day Poland.

Poland and Czechoslavakia were originally inhabited by peoples of Germanic or mixed Celtic and Germanic stock before the Slavic invasions. Russia was inhabited by a mix of Finnic tribes and Indo-Iranian peoples like the Scythians and Sarmatians.

The Slavs suddenly broke out of their Belarus homeland about 500 A.D. and pushed eastward, westward and southward towards Albania and Constantinople.

There is no evidence that the Slavs completely displaced any of the native peoples that they overran. More often, they simply imposed their rule and language on them much like the Anglo-Saxons did on the native Britons of England and the Arabs did on the Coptic peoples of Egypt and North Africa.

2007-08-03 03:42:06 · answer #3 · answered by Brennus 6 · 2 0

From Salvia, I presume......

2007-08-03 05:04:17 · answer #4 · answered by GrahamH 7 · 0 2

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