Cyrillic is one of the most widely used modern alphabetic scripts, and is notable for its use in Slavic languages and also for other languages within the former Soviet Union.

* Baltic Sea is used in English ; in the Baltic languages Latvian ( Baltijas jūra ) and Lithuanian ( Baltijos jūra ); in Latin ( Mare Balticum ) and the Romance languages French ( Mer Baltique ), Italian ( Mar Baltico ), Portuguese ( Mar Báltico ), Romanian ( Marea Baltică ) and Spanish ( Mar Báltico ); in Greek ( Βαλτική Θάλασσα ); in Albanian ( Deti Balltik ); in the Slavic languages Polish ( Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk ), Czech ( Baltské moře or Balt ), Croatian ( Baltičko more ), Slovenian ( Baltsko morje ), Bulgarian ( Baltijsko More ( Балтийско море ), Kashubian ( Bôłt ), Macedonian ( Балтичко Море / Baltičko More ), Ukrainian ( Балтійське море (" Baltijs ' ke More "), Belarusian ( Балтыйскае мора (" Baltyjskaje Mora "), Russian ( Балтийское море (" Baltiyskoye Morye ") and Serbian ( Балтичко море / Baltičko more ); in the Hungarian language ( Balti-tenger ); and also in Basque ( Itsaso Baltikoa )

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.

During the Middle Bulgarian period, the language underwent dramatic changes, losing the Slavonic case system, but preserving the rich verb system ( while the development was exactly the opposite in other Slavic languages ) and developing a definite article.

Historical expansion of the usage of Slavic languages in the South and East, and Germanic languages in the West reduced the geographic distribution of Baltic languages to a fraction of the area which they had formerly covered.

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.

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 spelling of tsar used in several Slavic languages

Many Slavic languages allow the trill and the lateral as syllabic nuclei ( see Words without vowels ).

Many Slavic and Uralic languages refer to cumin as " Roman caraway ".

In the Germanic and some Slavic languages, the word kyriak-ós /- ē /- ón was adopted instead and derivatives formed thereof.

In Slavic languages, / l, r / as syllabic nuclei are usually the result of the disappearance of,, or ( contrast for example the Russian cognates for vlk and smrt, ' volk ' and ' sm < nowiki >'</ nowiki > ert < nowiki >'</ nowiki >').

In publications of 1647 and 1654, Marcus van Boxhorn first described a rigid methodology for historical linguistic comparisons and proposed the existence of an Indo-European proto-language ( which he called " Scythian ") unrelated to Hebrew, but ancestral to Germanic, Greek, Romance, Persian, Sanskrit, Slavic, Celtic and Baltic languages.

Today, all diverse local languages under the Standard German umbrella are collectively referred to as " German dialects ", ( including Slavic, Frisian, Dutch, and Danish ones ) the vast majority of German speakers still believe, they were variations of " original " or even Standard German.

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.

* Acute accents are also used in Slavic language dictionaries and textbooks to indicate lexical stress, placed over the vowel of the stressed syllable.

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.

Current East Slavic languages are Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian.

Cognates are found in old Norse, Slavic and also Greek and Sanskrit.

Traces of Slavic culture in Greece are very rare and by the 9th century, the Sclaveni in Greece were largely assimilated.

Some other, rarer, names for this alphabet are Bukvitsa ( from common Slavic word ' bukva ' meaning ' letter ', and a suffix '- itsa ') and Illyrian.

Some ' Russian letters ' found in one version of St. Cyril's life are explainable as misspelled ' Syrian letters ' ( in Slavic, the roots are very similar: rus-vs. sur-or syr -), etc.

The last three books ( 14-16 ), describe Danish conquests on the south shore of the Baltic Sea and wars against Slavic peoples ( the Northern Crusades ), are very valuable for the history of West Slavic tribes ( Polabian Slavs, Pomeranians ) and Slavic paganism.

The etymology of Rus and its derivatives are debated, and other schools of thought connect the name with Slavic or Iranic roots.

The names for the two instruments in the Slavic languages are also either similar or identical.

In the Slavic tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church, these two are commemorated on 19 November ( corresponding to 2 December on the Gregorian calendar ).

Other variations of the name: Kassubians, Cassubians, or ( sometimes ) Kashubes are a West Slavic ethnic group in Pomerelia, north-central Poland.

Lithuanians are neither Slavic nor Germanic, although the union with Poland, German and Russian colonization and settlement left cultural and religious influences.

For example, the Germanic, Slavic, Romance, and Indo-Iranian language families are branches of a larger Indo-European language family.

In a similar vein, there are many similar unique innovations in Germanic, Baltic and Slavic that are far more likely to be areal features than traceable to a common proto-language.

Macedonian and Bulgarian are sharply divergent from the remaining South Slavic languages, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene, and indeed all other Slavic languages, in that they don't use noun cases ( except for the vocative, and apart from some traces of once productive inflections still found scattered throughout the languages ).

They are also the only Slavic languages with any definite articles, but only Macedonian has got three: unspecified, proximate and distal article.

Three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Slavic Wends, who as pagans were considered fair game, and whose subjugation to Christianity was the aim of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 in which Albert took part ; diplomatic measures were more successful, and by an arrangement made with the last of the Wendish princes of Brandenburg, Pribislav of the Hevelli, Albert secured this district when the prince died in 1150.

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.

From the 19th century, up to the end of the 20th century, most of Central Asia has been part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, both being Slavic majority countries.

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.

During the Ostsiedlung, a settlement was founded by German settlers some kilometers off the site of the Slavic one, the official city website mentions that it was located within the boundary of today's downtown of Kołobrzeg and that certain part of inhabitants of the Polish town moved to the new settlement.

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.

In its modern usage, the idea that a part of the Americas has affinity with the Romance cultures as a whole can be traced back to the 1830s, in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postulated that this part of the Americas was inhabited by people of a " Latin race " and that it could, therefore, ally itself with " Latin Europe " in a struggle with " Teutonic Europe ", " Anglo-Saxon America " and " Slavic Europe ".

Northern part of Lesser Poland ( Lublin and Sandomierz ) was probably inhabited by another tribe, the Lendians, and dr Antoni Podraza, historian of the Jagiellonian University claims that ancient division of Lesser Poland into two major parts – Land ( Duchy ) of Kraków, and Land ( Duchy ) of Sandomierz, is based on the existence of two Slavic tribes in the area.

From then on, the Bulgarian model became an integral part of wider Slavic culture as a whole.

Evidence also exists that certain Macedonian Slavs, particularly those in the northern regions, considered themselves as Serbs el come caca and the Greek Idea predominated in southern Macedonia where it was supported by substantial part of the Slavic population.

The part of the Pomeranian population which kept their Slavic language was called the Wends ( German: Wenden ) or the Kashubians ( German: Kaschuben ).

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.

Many Slavic scholars are opposed to this theory of Germanic influence on the Rus ' ( people ) and have suggested alternative scenarios for this part of Eastern European history.

In communist Russia, the ideology of Slavic racial purity led to the complete denial that Scandinavians had played a part in the emergence of the principalities of the Rus ', which was supposed to have been founded by Slavs.

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.

For this reason, some historical Slavic monarchs, such as Russian Emperors, included the title " autocrat " as part of their official styles, distinguishing them from the constitutional monarchs elsewhere in Europe.

Thessaly remained part of the East Roman " Byzantine " Empire after the collapse of Roman power in the west, and subsequently suffered many invasions, such as by the Slavic tribe of the Belegezites in the 7th century AD.

Bydgoszcz, originally Bydgoszcza ( feminine gender word ), is created as a pronoun name, the second part of which – goszcz comes from gost-jь possibly or gost-ja an old Slavic root which refers to an urban or suburban trading settlement.

It this time, according to the archeological excavations, the first Slavic settlement was founded on the Ostrówek-the northern part of the Pasieka island in the middle of the Odra river.

Słupsk had its origins as a Slavic Pomeranian settlement on the Słupia river in early Middle Ages, which later became part of Piast Poland.

In the 7th century the area was part of the Slavic principality of Carantania, which about 743 fell under the suzerainty of Duke Odilo of Bavaria.

It has lower intelligibility with the East South Slavic languages Bulgarian and Macedonian, than with Slovene ( although Slovene is part of the West subgroup, it is hindered by differences in vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation to the Serbo-Croatian standard forms, although closer to the Serbo-Croatian Kajkavian and Čakavian dialects ).