She had constantly devoted herself to the service of the church and peace, and to the empire as guardian of both ; she also interested herself in the conversion of the Slavs.

During the Hohenstaufen period, German princes facilitated a successful, peaceful eastward settlement of lands previously sparsely inhabited by West Slavs or uninhabited, by German speaking farmers, traders and craftsmen from the western part of the Empire, both Christians and Jews.

At the same time while Pan-Slavism worked against Austro-Hungary with South Slavs, Poles enjoyed a wide autonomy within the state and assumed a loyalist position as they were able to develop their national culture and preserve Polish language, something under threat in both German and Russian Empires.

The brothers are known as the " Apostles of the Slavs " and are still highly regarded by both Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christians.

Scandinavians had contacts to the Slavs since their very immigration, these first contacts were soon followed by both the construction of Scandinavian emporia and Slavic burghs in their vicinity.

After the fall of Great Moravia, the rulers of the Bohemian duchy had to deal both with continuous raids by the Magyars and the forces of the Saxon duke and East Frankish king Henry the Fowler, who had started several eastern campaigns into the adjacent lands of the Polabian Slavs, homeland of Wenceslaus ' mother.

In the 9th century, the Byzantine Greek missionaries Cyril and Methodius, both natives of the city, created the first literary language of the Slavs, the Glagolic alphabet, most likely based on the Slavic dialect allegedly used in the hinterland of their hometown.

Upon the looter invasions by the Avars and Slavs from 6th-9th century, bringing Slavic languages, both probably gave way to feudalism only with the might by the Frankish penetrating into the region in the late 9th century ( Bosnia probably originated as one such pre-feudal entity ).

He was a central figure in both the conversion of the Slavs to Christianity and the Photian schism.

His demise is a turning point in history, given the fact that the new war against Persia weakened both empires in a way enabling the Slavs to permanently settle the Balkans and paving the way for Arab / Muslim expansion.

It served as a place for both the arrival and dispersion of many Southern Slavs who immigrated to northern Utah.

Slavs, both in Moscow and Turkmenistan, closely supervised the national cadre of government officials and bureaucrats ; generally, the Turkmen leadership staunchly supported Soviet policies.

A noble of Eraclea, then the primary city of the region, he was elected in 697 as an official over the entire lagoon that surrounded Venice, both to put an end to the conflicts between the various tribunes who until then had governed the various parts, and to coordinate the defense against the Lombards and the Slavs who were encroaching on the settlements.

Poland disappeared as a state in a third partition in 1795 but the Polish gentry continued to maintain local control in both eastern and western Podolia over a peasant population which was primarily ethnically Ukrainian whose similarity to the other East Slavs already subject to the Habsburg Monarchy was showcased in a 1772 book by Adam F. Kollár and was used as an argument in favor of annexation by the Habsburgs.

Overall, Slavs ( both West and East Slavs, including Lendians as well as Rusyns ) came to dominate the Celtic-German population.

The Veneti were geographically and temporally contiguous to the Germanic and Slavic peoples and were eventually assimilated by both groups, perhaps even more decisively by Slavs, who later settled in the territory which erstwhile belonged to the Veneti.

Schenker's conclusion is supported by the fact that to the east of the Ouenedai, Ptolemy mentions two further tribes called Stauanoi and Souobenoi, both of which have been interpreted as possibly the oldest historical attestations of Slavs.

The Arabic dictionary Taj al-Arus by al-Zubaidi ( 1790 ) notes that although some Islamic authors make the Khazars descendants of Japheth's son Khasheh ( Meshech ), others hold both the Khazars and Saqaliba ( Slavs ) to have come rather from his brother, Tubal.

Gundulić describes the travels of both Ali-pasha and Kazlar-aga while paying much attention to the battle of Chocim and the enslaved Slavs that suffer under Ottoman rule.

In this time, the region was populated by both, Slavs and Hungarians.

19th century ethnic nationalist Fennomans saw East Karelia as the ancient home of Finnic culture, " un-contaminated " by both Scandinavians and Slavs.

This may have been either because many Slavs, both slaves and ordinary settlers, lived in his domain at that time ; or because, at the time of the writing, the Bulgarians were controlling the Serbian lands.

His avowed intention was to unite the nationalities of Austria: Germans and Slavs were, as he said, equally integral parts of Austria ; neither must be oppressed ; both must unite to form an Austrian parliament.

The area of the later city of Gdynia shared its history with Pomerelia ( Eastern Pomerania ); in prehistoric times it was the center of Oksywie culture ; it was later populated by Slavs with some Baltic Prussian influences.

In addition, at least 25, 000 Greeks and an unspecified number of Macedonian Slavs were either voluntarily or forcibly evacuated to Eastern bloc countries, while 700, 000 became displaced persons inside the country.

The name of Hungary could be a result of regular sound changes of Ungrian / Ugrian, and the fact that the Eastern Slavs referred to Hungarians as Ǫgry / Ǫgrove ( sg.

The history of Russia begins with that of the Eastern Slavs and the Finno-Ugric peoples.

The 1924 Act was aimed at further restricting the Southern and Eastern Europeans, especially Jews, Italians, and Slavs, who had begun to enter the country in large numbers beginning in the 1890s.

* The Primary Chronicle ( Slavic mythos, 12th century ): Perun ( the creator of lightning and thunder ) and Veles oversee the 10th-century peace treaties between the Eastern Slavs and the Byzantine emperors ; Vladimir I of Kiev later introduces a pantheon of Perun, Hors, Dažbog, Stribog, Simargl, and Mokosh.

Central and Eastern European slaves were generally known as Saqaliba ( i. e., Slavs ).

* P. M. Barford, The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe, British Museum Press, London 2001, ISBN 978-0-7141-2804-7

* Mitochondrial DNA Phylogeny in Eastern and Western Slavs, B. Malyarchuk, T. Grzybowski, M. Derenko, M. Perkova, T. Vanecek, J. Lazur, P. Gomolcaknd I. Tsybovsky, Oxford Journals

In the 1st millennium, during the Slavic migrations which split the recently-formed Slav ethnicity into Southern, Eastern and Western groups, some West Slavs moved into the areas between the Elbe and Oder Rivers-moving from east to west and from south to north.

From the 3rd century until the 11th century, the region was invaded numerous times in turn by different tribes: Goths, Huns, Avars, Bulgars, Slavs ( South, i. e. Bulgarian, and Eastern ), Magyars, Pechenegs, Cumans and Mongols.

The Slavs, a migratory people from southeastern Europe, were allied by the Eurasian Avars in the 6th century, and together they invaded the Eastern Roman Empire in the 6th and 7th centuries, settling in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina and the surrounding lands.

The Slavs emerged from their original homeland ( most commonly thought to have been in Eastern Europe ) in the early 6th century and spread to most of eastern Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Balkans, thus forming three main branches-the West Slavs, the East Slavs and the South Slavs.

Owing to the prevalence of East Slavs and the Eastern Orthodox faith among the population in eastern and southern regions of the state, the Ruthenian language was a widely used colloquial language while Lithuanian was primarily used for administrative and diplomatic needs until the late 17th century, when it was eventually replaced by Polish.

Relatively little is known about the Eastern Slavs prior to approximately 859 AD, the date from which the account in the Primary Chronicle starts.

The East Slavs flooded Eastern Europe in two streams.

The Immigration Act of 1924 was aimed at further restricting the Southern and Eastern Europeans, especially Jews, Italians and Slavs, who had begun to enter the country in large numbers beginning in the 1890s.

The work is considered to be a fundamental in the interpretation of the history of the Eastern Slavs.