The ancestors of the Russians were the Slavic tribes, whose original home is thought by some scholars to have been the wooded areas of the Pripet Marshes.

The ancestors of modern Russians are the Slavic tribes, whose original home is thought by some scholars to have been the wooded areas of the Pinsk Marshes.

After the invasion of the formerly Germanic territories ( the part largely corresponding to GDR ) by the Sorbs ’ Slavic ancestors in the 5th and 6th centuries, the Sorbian language ( or its predecessors ) has been in use in much of ( later ) East Germany ’ s Southern half for several centuries, and has still its stronghold in ( Upper and Lower ) Lusatia where it enjoys national protection and fostering until today.

It is believed that up to the 14th century, ancestors of the modern Ukrainians spoke dialects of the language known collectively as Old East Slavic ( today known as Ruthenian language ), also spoken by other East Slavs of Kievan Rus.

Early ancestors of the Russians were East Slavic tribes migrating to the East European Plain in the early Middle Ages.

In the late 6th century, Slavic tribes, ancestors of modern Slovenes, settled the area.

In the 6th century, it was settled by Slavic tribes, ancestors of the modern Slovenes.

Turaŭ was an ancient capital of the Dregovichs tribe-one of the three Eastern Slavic tribes that are considered ancestors of modern Belarusian nation ( the others being Krivichs and Drevlians ).

The ancestors of the Slovincians, the West Slavic Pomeranians, moved in after the Migration Period.

Great Moravia ( 833-? 907 ) was a Slavic state in the 9th and early 10th centuries, whose creators were the ancestors of the Czechs and Slovaks.

All the same, the Slavs also had a major impact ( attested, for instance, by Slavic loanwords ) on the Romanians ' ancestors who adopted Old Church Slavonic as their liturgical language in the 10th century.

Unlike the above scenario ( east / west Slavic ), the barrier between east south Slavic and west south Slavic is natural and not political: the speakers ' ancestors inhabited their respective lands having taken alternative routes thus being apart for some generations.

Schafarik believes the Neuri to have been ancestors of the Slavic peoples.

Officially, Wenedyk is a descendant of Vulgar Latin with a strong Slavic admixture, based on the premise that the Roman Empire incorporated the ancestors of the Poles in their territory.

It is possible that ancestors of the so-called Eastern Latgalians migrated to the territory of present-day Latgale in the 7th and 10th-11th centuries, pushed from their previously inhabited territory by Slavic migration ; some archaeologists also believe that the Eastern Latgalians formed from the most ancient East-Baltic inhabitants of Latvia, who lived in central and Eastern parts of Latvia just in the " Roman " Iron age ( 1st-4th centuries ).

Up to the 14th century, ancestors of the modern Russians ( who likewise called themselves ruskiye ) spoke dialects of the Old East Slavic language, related to the dialects of other East Slavs.

Although, earlier Slavic settlements had existed in the area, the ancestors of modern Slovenes moved from eastern Alps and settled in Prekmurje after Franks defeated the Avars during the reign of Charlemagne.

Slavic tribes, ancestors of modern Slovenes, first settled the area in the late 6th century A. D.

In the latter book he viewed the Scythians described by Herodotus as ancestors of modern Slavic nations.

South Slavic tribes settled in the territory of the present-day Republic of Macedonia in the 6th century.

East Slavs settled on the territory present-day Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, assimilating local Baltic — ( Yotvingians, Dniepr Balts ), Ugro-Finnic ( Russia ) and steppe nomads ( Ukraine ) already living there, their early ethnic integrations contributed to the gradual differentiation of the three East Slavic nations.

The same Slavic population also settled the present-day Tver Oblast and the region of Beloozero.

The same Slavic ethnic population also settled the present-day Tver Oblast and the region of Beloozero.

They were driven out by a Slavic tribe of Vistulans who started hunting in the nearby huge forests and had settled most of the area now known as Małopolska and present-day Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship.

The city's origins can be traced back into the 9th and 10th century, when three Slavic settlements existed on Rybnik's present-day territory which eventually merged to form one town.

Carantania, also known as Carentania (,, in Old Slavic ) was a Slavic principality that emerged in the second half of the 7th century, in the territory of present-day southern Austria and north-eastern Slovenia.

The Polabian language is an extinct West Slavic language that was spoken by the Polabian Slavs () in present-day North-Eastern Germany around the Elbe ( Laba in Slavic ) river, from which derives its name (" po Labe "-along the Elbe ).

The name derives from the early mediæval Slavic principality of Carantania, whose territory stretched from the present-day Austrian state of Carinthia down to the Styrian lands on the Sava river.

The first known Slavic states on the territory of present-day Slovakia were the Empire of Samo and the Principality of Nitra, founded sometime in the 8th century.

The original territory inhabited by the Slavic tribes included not only present-day Slovakia, but also parts of present-day Poland, southeastern Moravia and approximately the entire northern half of present-day Hungary.

The city's origins can be traced back into the 10th and 11th century, when three Slavic settlements existed on Wodzisław's present-day territory which eventually merged to form one town.

The Slovak language arises from the language of the Sloviene ( i. e. the Slavic inhabitants of Great Moravia, present-day Hungary, Slovenia and Slavonia ) in the form of several Slovak dialects, after the Magyars ( Hungarians ) have destroyed Great Moravia ( c. 907 ), settled in present-day Hungary, separated the West from the South Slavs, and temporarily subjugated southern parts of Slovakia ( most of the remaining Slovakia will become part of Hungary until the end of the 11th century ).

His next missionary task was among the Slavic people of the Danube valley in present-day Slovakia but this was unsuccessful.

He established a Slavic kingdom on the Elbe ( in the area of present-day northeastern Germany ) in the mid-11th century.

According to the peace treaty of Trianon the southern part of the county ( 1163 km² ) reverted to Slavic rule ( present-day Croatia ).

Bács county was named after a town of Bács ( Serbian: Bač ) and the Bodrog county was named after a historical town of Bodrog ( which was located near present-day Bački Monoštor ), which itself was named after a Slavic tribe Abodrites ( or Bodrići in Slavic ) that inhabited this area in the Middle Ages.

Croatia and Slavonia became a part of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs composed out of all Southern Slavic territories of the now former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy with a transitional government headed in Zagreb.

However, the intellectual circle around the philologist Matija Čop and the Romantic poet France Prešeren was influential in affirming the idea of Slovene linguistic and cultural individuality, refusing the idea of merging the Slovenes into a wider Slavic nation.

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.

Since 1918, Bečej was part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and subsequent South Slavic states.

Both the " Austrian " and " Hungarian " lands of the Dual Monarchy comprised large predominantly Slavic settled territories in the north ( Czechs, Slovaks, Poles and Ukrainians ) as well as in the south ( Slovenes and Croats ).

In June 1848, the Czechs convened the first Slavic Congress to discuss the possibility of political consolidation of Austrian Slavs, including Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Ruthenians ( Ukrainians ), Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs.

Among these there was an internationally unrecognized State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, which was created in the final days of the war according to the 1917 Corfu Declaration, and merged with the Kingdom of Serbia to form the new South Slavic Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on December 1, 1918.

In Kotor was also founded the same year the Serb Reading-room ; although it was renamed to " Slavic " in 1849 so that it could gather Kotor's Croats, Slovenes and Czechs as well.

* to create a federal Yugoslavia, based on the right of self-determination of nations, in which the southern Slavic peoples ( Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, and Macedonians ) who would live in six constituent republics with equal rights ;

Nonetheless, the signers claimed to speak for all South Slavic peoples and the Corfu Declaration became the justification claimed by Serbia for the forced unification of Croatians and Slovenes under the Serbian crown.

The Kingdom of Italy was vehemently opposed to the creation of joint South Slavic state Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and the Italians disputed many of the new kingdom's coastal territories such as Dalmatia.

Austroslavism also found some support in other Slavic nations in the Austrian Empire, especially the Slovenes and Croats.

After 1918, the town became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and subsequent South Slavic states.

Since 1918, Irig was part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( later renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) and subsequent South Slavic and Serb states.

In particular, Steed was a very strong advocate of uniting all of the South Slavic peoples such as the Croats, the Serbs, the Slovenes, etc.

Since 1918, Žabalj was part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and subsequent South Slavic states.

She attended the lyceum for Slovenes in Klagenfurt, continuing her studies in literary sciences, Slavic studies and librarian sciences at the University of Vienna, University of Klagenfurt and in Pittsburgh, where she currently lives.

After 1918, Bač was part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and subsequent South Slavic states.

Until 1918 its part of the Hungarian Kingdom, after it is part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and subsequent South Slavic states except German occupation between 1941 – 1944.