Veche (,,,,,, ) was a popular assembly in medieval Slavic countries.

* In Pomerelia and Pomerania ( inhabited by the Kashubians, different Slavic people from the Poles proper ), branches of native ruling dynasties were usually recognized as dukes, quite similarly to the pattern in Poland.

Every noun in German is assigned a gender, similarly to some other European languages such as Spanish or any of the Slavic languages.

This movement, which evolved similarly to the Pan-Germanic and Pan-Italian movements that resulted in the unification of their respective nations, took different forms in the various Slavic nations.

The Western Polans are not to be confused with Eastern Polans, a similarly named Slavic tribe.

Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language ( collectively forming the East South Slavic languages ), has several characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages: changes include the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article ( see Balkan language area ) and the lack of a verb infinitive ; but it retains and has further developed the Proto-Slavic verb system.

They show the closest relationship with the Slavic languages, and have, by most scholars, been reconstructed to a common Proto-Balto-Slavic stage, during which Common Balto-Slavic lexical, phonological, morphological and accentological isoglosses are thought to have developed.

They brought with them the Old Church Slavonic liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Christian religion, written Slavic language, the version of which known as Chancery Slavonic was to serve the Lithuanian court's document-producing needs for a few centuries, and developed laws, turning Vilnius into a major center of their civilization.

It could be that the reason for the Czech preference of Mieszko was the existence in Bohemia of a mission which followed the precepts of the Byzantine Greek brothers and later saints Cyril and Methodius, who developed and performed the liturgy in the Slavic rite, more readily understood by Mieszko and his subjects.

Despite the pressure of non-Polish administrations in Poland, who have often attempted to suppress the Polish language, a rich literature has developed over the centuries, and the language is currently the largest, in terms of speakers, of the West Slavic group.

The Polish alphabet was one of two major forms of Latin-based orthography developed for Slavic languages, the other being Czech orthography.

It developed as a fusion of Hebrew and Aramaic into German dialects with the infusion of Slavic and traces of Romance languages.

Around the late 12th century, a Slavic settlement called Drežďany had developed on the southern bank.

The common cultural bond of Eastern Orthodox Christianity and written Church Slavonic ( a literary and liturgical Slavic language developed by 8th century missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius ) fostered the emergence of a new geopolitical entity, Kievan Rus ' — a loose-knit network of principalities, established along preexisting trade routes, with major centers in Novgorod ( currently Russia ), Polatsk ( in Belarus ) and Kiev ( currently in Ukraine ) — which claimed a sometimes precarious preeminence among them.

Old Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavic ( OCS ) (, slověnĭskŭ językŭ ) was the first literary Slavic language, developed by the 9th century Byzantine Greek missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius who were credited with standardizing the language and using it for translating the Bible and other Ancient Greek ecclesiastical texts as part of the Christianisation of the Slavic peoples.

The Serbs are a Slavic people, specifically of the South Slavic subgroup, which has its origins in the 6th and 7th century communities developed in Southeastern Europe ( see Great Migration ).

The Serbs are a Slavic people, specifically of the South Slavic subgroup, which has its origins in the 6th and 7th century communities developed in Southeastern Europe ( see Great Migration ).

The city developed as a fishing centre ( the word rybnik means fishpond in several Slavic languages, including Czech and Silesian ) in medieval ages, then was a capital of so-called Rybnik State.

According to the Geographical Dictionary of Poland published by Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, the city's predecessor was an early medieval Slavic settlement, the city website states it was named Lasogród (" forest castle "), whose inhabitants engaged in hunting, honey gathering, and later agriculture ; Lasogród lated developed into a defensive fort, the remains of which were destroyed in the 19th century during expansion of the city.

In the early 10th century it developed into one of the main gróds of the Slavic Opolanie.

The alleged ( or certain, as certain as historic linguistics can be ) contact similarities are seen in such phenomena as the existence of definite adjectives, which exist in both Baltic and Slavic and nowhere else in the Indo-European family ( languages such as Albanian and the Scandinavian languages developed definite adjectives only in more recent times ), that are not reconstructible for Proto-Balto-Slavic, meaning they are most likely to have had to have developed through language contact.

In some Slavic countries a bonfire is referred to as a " bond fire " because of the bond developed between friends around the fire.

The word has developed to take various forms in the modern Slavic languages, such as wojewoda ( Polish ), воевода ( voyevoda, Russian ), войвода or воевода ( voyvoda, voevoda, Bulgarian ), воєвода ( voyevoda, Ukrainian ), vévoda ( Czech ) and војвода ( vojvoda, Croatian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene and Macedonian ).

The South Slavs The Serbs, a Slavic people, specifically of the South Slavic subgroup, have their origins in the 6th and 7th century communities developed in Southeastern Europe ( see Great Migration ).

Alternatively, a Greek derivation from " manless, without husbands " ( a-privative and a derivation of * man-also found in Slavic muzh ) has been proposed, an explanation deemed " unlikely " by Hjalmar Frisk.

Cyrillic numerals were a numbering system derived from the Cyrillic alphabet, used by South and East Slavic peoples.

), which shows association with " day ", possibly with Day personified as a deity which, Grimm points out, would agree with the meaning " shining one, white one, a god " derived from the meaning of Baltic baltas, further adducing Slavic Belobog and German Berhta.

* Old Bulgarian ( 9th to 11th century, also referred to as Old Church Slavonic ) – a literary norm of the early southern dialect of the Common Slavic language from which Bulgarian evolved.

It was used by Saints Cyril and Methodius and their disciples to translate the Bible and other liturgical literature from Greek into Slavic.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

The name čeština " Czech " is derived from a Slavic tribe of Czechs ( Čech, pl.

home ), itself a derivation from " live " (> Greek, Latin sinō ); then, the Germanic * χimbra-finds an exact cognate in Slavic sębrъ " farmer " (> Croatian, Serbian sebar, Russ.

The first phase Migration Period displacement from between CE 300 and 500 included relocation of the Goths ( Ostrogoths and Visigoths ), Vandals, Franks, various other Germanic people ( Burgundians, Lombards, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Suebi, Alemanni, Varangians and Normans ), Alans and numerous Slavic tribes.

Historians suppose that Bolesław's absence from the document might be explained by an old Slavic custom whereby children received their inheritance as soon as they reached the age of majority.

In English, the terms poniard and dirk are loaned during the late 16th to early 17th century, the latter in the spelling dork, durk ( presumably via Low German, Dutch or Scandinavian dolk, dolch, ultimately from a West Slavic tulich ), the modern spelling dirk dating to 18th-century Scots.

The phonemic inventory is essentially Slavic, as is much of the semantics, while the vocabulary derives primarily from the Romance languages, with a lesser contribution from the Germanic languages and minor contributions from Slavic languages and Greek.

The East Slavic languages descend from a common predecessor, the language of the medieval Kievan Rus ' ( 9th to 13th centuries ).

In non-doctrinal matters the church had occasionally shared from local Greek, Slavic and Middle Eastern traditions, among others, in turn shaping the cultural development of these nations.

The name was not coined until many centuries after its creation, and comes from the Old Slavic glagolъ " utterance " ( also the origin of the Slavic name for the letter G ).

Fearing growing Byzantine influence and weakening of the state, Boris viewed the introduction of the Slavic alphabet and language in church use as a way to preserve the independence of Slavic Bulgaria from Greek Constantinople.

* 537 – Siege of Rome: The Byzantine general Belisarius receives his promised reinforcements, 1, 600 cavalry, mostly of Hunnic or Slavic origin and expert bowmen.

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

In Ukrainian and some other Slavic languages, merezhka is the general term for " drawn-thread " work.

The Venetian words Schiavoni and Schiavonia were general terms used for all South Slavic peoples with which they came in direct contact, Slovenes as well as for Croats and Serbs from Dalmatia.

Mucha spent many years working on what he considered his life's fine art masterpiece, The Slav Epic ( Slovanská epopej ), a series of twenty huge paintings depicting the history of the Czech and the Slavic people in general, bestowed to the city of Prague in 1928.

Compare also the rendition of the name of early Bulgarian ruler Pagan as ( Kampaganos ), likely resulting from a misinterpretation of " Kan Pagan ", in Patriarch Nicephorus's so-called Breviarium In general, however, the inscriptions as well as other sources designate the supreme ruler of Danube Bulgaria with titles that exist in the language in which they are written – archontеs, meaning ' commander or magistrate ' in Greek, and knyaze, meaning ' duke ' or ' prince ' in Slavic.

In general practice, after one confesses to one's spiritual guide, the parish priest ( who may or may not have heard the confession ) covers the head of the person with his Epitrachelion ( Stole ) and reads the Prayer of Absolution, asking God to forgive the transgression of the individual ( the specific prayer differs between Greek and Slavic use ).

Ĝ is based on the letter g, which has this sound in English and Italian before the vowels i and e, to better preserve the shape of borrowings from those languages ( such as ĝenerala from general ) than Slavic đ would.

In the nineteenth and twentieth century, the general population became increasingly interested in Slavic mythology, fuelled by various romantic, nationalistic, and, in modern times, neopagan movements.

Although the initial phase of the rebellion ended ( after much destruction ) at the Battle of Berestechko ( 1651 ), it brought into focus the rivalry between Russia and the Commonwealth for hegemony over Ukraine and over the eastern Slavic lands in general.

This echoes the ancient Indo-European concept that deity is, in essence, an entity which gives wealth and abundance, an indication, perhaps, that Dažbog is a relic from common Proto-Indo-European religion, or even that this was not a name for any particular Slavic god, but a general epithet of a deity.

There are many exceptions to this general rule: Westerners often insert a third or more names between the given and surnames ; Chinese and Hungarian names have the family name preceding the given name ; females now often retain their maiden names ( their family surname ) or combine, using a hyphen, their maiden name and the surname of their husband ; some East Slavic nations insert the patronym ( a name derived from the given name of the father ) between the given and the family name ; in Iceland the given name is used with the patronym and surnames rarely used.

The rise of the Slovak language, just as that of other Slavic languages, can be shifted back to the 6th and 7th century, but the general consensus of Slavic linguists is that it was only in the 10th century that the Slavic languages were different enough to define them as separate languages.

It is known that the Slavic Pomeranians migrated to the area, but it is sure they settled in neighboring areas in Pomerania with the general Slavic people's movement to the north and west from the Pripjet marshes after 600.

The Indo-European aorist was inherited by the Slavic languages in general ; it is obsolete, or virtually so, in most of them.

Professor Pavle Ivić (, ) ( 1 December 1924-19 September 1999 ) was a leading South Slavic and general dialectologist and phonologist.

These spirits or fairies are mostly out of the Ukrainian mythology which derived out of the general Slavic folklore.

Another possessive found in Russian and other Slavic languages is the reflexive possessive, corresponding to the general reflexive pronoun ; the Russian form is свой svoj ( meaning " one's ( own )", " my ( own )", etc.

For the general history of the language and Old East Slavic literature, see Old East Slavic language.

*" rus ' ka mova ", which is very unprecise, especially because in overwhelming majority of Belarusian literacy artifacts lexeme " ruskiy " is written with no " soft sign ", reflecting the phonological process completed in 12th — 13th century Additionally, term " ruskiy " is very ambiguous in its use in literacy artifacts and may also pertain to text which is " East Slavic in general " or " of Orthodox persuasion " or " in Cyrillic script " or, indeed, Old Belarusian.