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.

One historic source on Slavic mythology mentioning this god is the 12th-century Chronica Slavorum, a work written by German priest Helmold which describes customs and beliefs of several Wendish and Polabian tribes who were still pagans.

Rod ( Belarusian, Russian, Serbian: Род, Ukrainian: Рід, other Slavic languages: Rod ) is a Slavic deity, often mentioned in the Old Church Slavonic didactic literature which was directed against pagans.

With the end of the Viking Age around 1100 A. D., the thrall population became composed of fewer Christians and more Slavic and Scandinavian pagans.

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 )

* 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.

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 ).

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

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

The Glagolitic alphabet (), also known as Glagolitsa, ( OCS:, ) is the oldest known Slavic alphabet.

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 ).

Grammarians of the Greek and Latin languages also showed an interest in aspect, but the idea did not enter into the modern Western grammatical tradition until the 19th century via the study of Slavic grammar.

By the eastward settlement the Empire's influence increased to eventually include Pomerania and Silesia – also due to intermarriage of the local, still mostly Slavic, rulers with German spouses.

In exchange, the neighbouring Slavic languages also contain some words of Hungarian origin ( such as Serbian ašov – " spade ").

The Act was also used to justify German, Slavic, and Ukrainian Canadian internment during the First World War, and the internment of German-Canadians, Italian Canadians and of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War.

By the end of the 10th century, the Norse minority had merged with the Slavic population, which also absorbed Greek Christian influences in the course of the multiple campaigns to loot Tsargrad, or Constantinople.

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

This is also true in the Slavic languages following the Eastern Orthodox tradition ( e. g. "" ( Iisús Navín ) in Russian ).

It eventually passed to Eastern Europe where it appeared in Slavic editions, and it also passed on to Russia.

* Intestine or gut, in East Slavic languages, also used in English-language Yiddishisms

Macedonian (, makedonski jazik, ) is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2 – 3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora.

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

They were also apostles-Christianizators of the Slavic world.

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 chronicle of Thietmar poses some problems of interpretation of the information regarding the attack of Margrave Gero on the Slavic tribes, as a result of which he purportedly subordinated to the authority of the Emperor Lusatia and the Selpuli ( meaning the Słupian tribes ) and also Mieszko with his subjects.

It is also the second most widely spoken Slavic language, after Russian and ahead of Ukrainian.

In many Germanic and Celtic languages and also in Baltic, Slavic, Hungarian and Chinese, peninsulas are called " half-islands ".

It is believed that the original letters have been fitted to the original Macedonian Slavic.

In the Early Middle Ages, Slavic tribes are believed to have settled in the region, though the extent of such settlement is unclear.

Old Church Slavonic is valuable to historical linguists since it preserves archaic features believed to have once been common to all Slavic languages.

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.

The name is believed to ultimately not be of Slavic origin, but of older pre-Slavic origin.

It is possibly related to the Romanian viezure (" badger "), a word of uncertain etymology, believed to be inherited from Dacian / Thracian and related to the Albanian vjedhullë (" badger ", " thief ") and vjeth (" to steal "), and the Slavic jazvrŭ (" hedgehog "; cf.

In Russian and other Slavic cultures ( also in Romania and the Baltic states ), whistling indoors is superstitiously believed to bring poverty (" whistling money away "), whereas whistling outdoors is considered normal.

Even though modern languages of this area are almost purely Slavic with very little Illyrian influence, it is believed that, genetically speaking, the present population of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a mixture of Slavs and Illyrians with influences of other ethnic groups such as Avars and Goths.

Conrad was something of a social Darwinist, and believed a battle between German and Slavic civilization was inevitable.

The Serbs were a polytheistic Slavic tribe that believed in several gods, such as Svetovid ( God of war, fertility and abundance ) and Dažbog ( Sun god, a culture hero and a source of wealth and power ).

* * H < sub > 2 </ sub > eus ( os ), is believed to have been the goddess of dawn, continued in Greek mythology as Eos, in Rome as Aurora, in Vedic as Ushas, in Lithuanian mythology as Aušra ' dawn ' or Auštaras ( Auštra ) ' the god ( goddess ) of the northeast wind ', Latvian Auseklis, the morning star ( Lithuanian Aušrinė, ' morning star '); Ausera, and Ausrina, goddesses of dawn or of the planet Venus ; Hittite, assu ' lord, god '; Gallic Esus, a god of hearths ; Slavic, Iaro, a god of summer.

Classical Slavophiles believed that " Slavdom ", that is the alleged by Slavophile movement common identity to all people of Slavic origin, was based on Orthodox religion.

The two names are believed to be a Slavic misunderstanding based on the Scandinavian expressions Trú vor (" our faithful ") and Sine hus (" his households " or " his clan ").

He compiles a map of the geographical position of the languages he knows, dividing the European territory into three parts: one to the east, with the Greek languages ; one to the north, with the Germanic languages, which he believed included Magyar and Slavic languages ; one to the south, separated into three Romance languages identified by the affirmation adverb: oc language, oïl language and sì language.

He believed in revival of the Orthodox religion in the Slavic realm ( see Slavic people ) centered in the Tsardom of Moscow.

* Saint Cyril the Philosopher, believed to have co-invented the Glagolitic alphabet, the first Slavic alphabet, and translated the Bible into Old Church Slavonic

After the fall of the Golden Horde, it is believed that the land belonged to the Nogai people ( later under the suzerainty of the Crimean Khanate ), although it is possible that the land might have been inhabited by a Slavic population as well.

It is believed that Book of Veles contained important historical chronicles such as the accounts of early Slavic rulers, laws of land, establishment of Kiev, and many other important historical facts.