Sancho's troops cut the chains guarding the tent and Slavic guards ring of the Miramamolín, supreme commander of the Al-Andalusian Forces.

Slavic prince Pribina began to build in January 846 a large fortress as his seat of power and several churches in the region of Lake Balaton, in a territory of modern Zalavár surrounded by forests and swamps along the river Zala.

The event was recorded both in German and Old East Slavic chronicles, which also provided the first record of a settlement of German merchants and artisans which had arisen alongside the bishop's fortress.

On the cape there are two lighthouses, a navigation tower, two military bunker complexes, the Slavic temple fortress of Jaromarsburg and several tourist buildings ( restaurants, pubs and souvenir shops ).

The castle of Brandenburg, which had been a fortress of the Slavic tribe Stodoranie, was conquered in 929 by King Henry the Fowler.

Albert was able to sign an inheritance contract with the Slavic Hevelli prince Pribislav and in 1150 succeeded him in his eastern territory around the fortress of Brandenburg an der Havel, which became the nucleus of his newly established Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1157.

The town and fortress were founded in 583 by people seeking refuge from the Slavic and the Avaric invasion of Greece.

The town was first mentioned as Crosno in 1005, when Duke Bolesław I Chrobry of Poland had a fortress built here in the course of his armed conflict with Emperor Henry II and the West Slavic Veleti confederation.

The name Belgrade ( or Beograd, in Serbian ), which, not just in Serbian but in most Slavic languages means a " white town " or a " white fortress ", was first mentioned in AD 878 by Bulgarians.

Germanic gardaz (" enclosure ", " garden "), Lithuanian gardas (" enclosure ", " hurdle ", " cattle pen "), Old Slavic gradu (" garden ", also " city "), and Hittite gurtas (" fortress ").

By 929 King Henry I of Germany had finally subdued the Slavic Glomacze tribe and built a fortress within their settlement area, situated on a rock high above the Elbe river.

The fortress was known as Chorniy Grad ( Slavic term for ' black castle ') and served as a Bulgarian-Slavic guard outpost.

The name comes from the Ancient Greek term for the Black Sea, ( Euxeinos Pontos, " hospitable sea ") and the South Slavic suffix – grad, meaning " town " or, historically, " fortress ".

With a large and circumspect 20th-Century technique, he wove the materials of national heroes and events, national folklore and children's fairy tales -- Slavic dances and love songs -- into a solid musical literature which served his people well, and is providing much enjoyment to the World at large.

Until 1945, Bulgarian orthography did not reveal this alternation and used the original Old Slavic Cyrillic letter yat (), which was commonly called двойно е ( dvoyno e ) at the time, to express the historical yat vowel or at least root vowels displaying the ya – e alternation.

Austria-Hungary took alarm at the great increase in Serbia's territory at the expense of its national aspirations in the region, as well as Serbia's rising status, especially to Austria-Hungary's Slavic populations.

Thus, for example, the English form is is an apparent cognate of German ist, Latin est and Russian < nowiki > jest '</ nowiki >, even though the Germanic, Italic, and Slavic language groups split at least three thousand years ago.

The Cyrillic alphabet is derived from the Greek alphabet, with ( at least 10 ) letters peculiar to Slavic languages being derived from the Glagolitic.

A general map of the cultures in European Russia at the arrival of the Varangians and before the beginning of the Slavic colonization

During the Early Middle Ages, Slavic Pomeranians founded a settlement at the site of modern Budzistowo.

In the late 9th century, a Slavic Pomeranian fortified settlement was built at the site of modern part of Kołobrzeg county called Budzistowo near modern Kołobrzeg, replacing nearby Bardy-Świelubie, a multi-ethnic emporium, as the center of the region.

Leo secured the Empire's frontiers by inviting Slavic settlers into the depopulated districts and by restoring the army to efficiency ; when the Umayyad Caliphate renewed their invasions in 726 and 739, as part of the campaigns of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, the Arab forces were decisively beaten, particularly at Akroinon in 740.

Yet again, today it is almost certain that this legend was used as a metaphor, in allusion to the old Slavic pagan ceremony known as the " postrzyżyny ": During that ceremony hair cutting was performed to every boy at the age of seven.

Abraham presented Mieszko I as one of the four Slavic " kings ", reigning over a vast " northern " area, with a highly regarded and substantial military force at his disposal.

The Livonians, who had been paying tribute to the East Slavic Principality of Polotsk, at first considered the Germans as useful allies.

Already weakened by the Slavic invasions at the end of the 6th century, which ruined the agrarian economy of Macedonia and probably also by the Plague of Justinian in 547, the city was almost totally destroyed by an earthquake around 619, from which it never recovered.

Pan-Slavism was a movement in the mid-19th century aimed at unity of all the Slavic peoples.

The Slavic ancestors of present-day Slovenes settled in the East Alpine area at the end of the 6th century.

A small number of Slovene activist, mostly from Styria and Carinthia, embraced the Illyrian movement that started in neighboring Croatia and aimed at uniting all South Slavic peoples.

Thereafter he moved first to the university of Rostov-na-Donu, then to the University of Sofia ( 1920-22 ), and finally took the chair of Professor of Slavic Philology at the University of Vienna ( 1922-1938 ).

While exploiting Slavic weakness in the wake of the Mongol invasion, Gediminas wisely avoided war with the Golden Horde, a great regional power at the time, while expanding Lithuania's border towards the Black Sea.

According to the early Slavic chronicle called Tale of Bygone Years, which describes life in Kyivan Rus ' up to the year 1110, he sent his envoys throughout the civilized world to judge at first hand the major religions of the time — Islam, Roman Catholicism, Judaism, and Byzantine Orthodoxy.

The son of Igor of Kiev and Olga, Sviatoslav is famous for his incessant campaigns in the east and south, which precipitated the collapse of two great powers of Eastern Europe — Khazaria and the First Bulgarian Empire ; he also conquered numerous East Slavic tribes, defeated the Alans and the Volga Bulgars, and at times was allied with the Pechenegs and Magyars.

The city was at the forefront of the Ostsiedlung, or intensive German settlement of the rural Slavic lands east of the Elbe, and its reception of city rights dates to 1332.

Avestan axšaēna ' dark-coloured '), and found in another name at the mouth of the Danube, Axíopa " dark water ", renamed in Slavic Crna voda ' black water '.

Absalon | Danish Bishop Absalon destroys the idol of Slavic mythology | Slavic god Svantevit at Cape Arkona | Arkona in a painting by Laurits Tuxen.

The Slavic piracy in the Baltic Sea ended with the Danish conquest of the Rani stronghold of Arkona in 1168.

From the 7th century the West Slavic Rani ( or Rujani ) built an empire on Rügen and the neighbouring coast between Recknitz and Ryck, which decidedly affected the history of both the Baltic Sea area and the surrounding Obodritic-( in the west ) and Liutician-( in the south ) occupied mainland for the next few centuries.

The Slavic cultural element disappeared, also due to the lack of their own Slavic church structures, so that the Rani were absorbed in the period that followed into the now German-influenced people of Rügen.

* The medieval principality of Rana of the Rani ( Slavic tribe ) based on the isle of Rügen

He mentions ' the devil ' Zerneboh ( Chernobog ), goddess Živa, god Porenut, some unnamed gods whose statues had multiple heads and, finally, the great god Svantevit, worshiped on the island of Rügen who, according to Helmod, was the most important of all ( Western ) Slavic deities.

From other historic sources describing Slavic polytheism, we for instance know that Svantevit, the great god of Rügen island, was symbolised by a white horse and Triglav, a high god in the city of Szczecin, was symbolised by a black one ; yet none of them was considered to be an evil or dark deity by people worshipping them.

After the destruction and Germanization of the Rujani by the Danes, in 1168, the original Slavic name of Rujan was corrupted as Rügen in German and Rugia in Danish.

The duchy originated from the realm of Wartislaw I, a Slavic Pomeranian duke, and was extended by the Lands of Schlawe and Stolp in 1317, the Principality of Rügen in 1325, and the Lauenburg and Bütow Land in 1455.

The island of Rügen, in contrast to the meanwhile German mainland parts of the principality, also remained a Slavic character throughout the 13th century – German settlement would only start in the 14th century, with strong participation of local Slavs.

Others assert that Buyan is actually a Slavic name for some real island, most likely Rügen.