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Slavic and piracy
* Slavic piracy
As with other Slavic pirates, the Uskok territory was not suitable for any form of agriculture, forcing them to turn to piracy once more.

Slavic and Baltic
* 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 )
), 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.
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.
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 ).
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.
This family is divided into a number of branches, including Romance, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, Albanian and Greek.
The zero-grade is preserved in modern times in the Lithuanian ethnonym for Belarusians, Gudai ( earlier Baltic Prussian territory before Slavic conquests by about 1200 CE ), and in certain Prussian towns in the territory around the Vistula River in Gothiscandza, today Poland ( Gdynia, Gdansk ).
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.
From southern Scandinavia and northern Germany, the tribes began expanding south, east and west in the 1st century BC, coming into contact with the Celtic tribes of Gaul, as well as Iranian, Baltic, and Slavic tribes in Central Europe.
The HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religion: The A-to-Z Encyclopedia of All the Major Religious Traditions ( 1999 ) covers 33 principal religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, Judaism, Islam, Shinto, Shamanism, Taoism, South American religions, Baltic and Slavic religions, Confucianism, and the religions of Africa and Oceania.
He included in his hypothesis Dutch, Albanian, Greek, Latin, Persian, and German, later adding Slavic, Celtic, and Baltic languages.
Similarly, Mikhail Lomonosov compared different languages groups of the world including Slavic, Baltic (" Kurlandic "), Iranian (" Medic "), Finnish, Chinese, " Hottentot ", and others.
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.
During the Middle Ages, the Latin alphabet was adapted to Romance languages, direct descendants of Latin, as well as to Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, and some Slavic languages.
During the 1230s and 1240s, Mindaugas strengthened and established his power in various Baltic and Slavic lands.
Thus, Hellenic, Roman, Kemetic, Celtic, Germanic, Baltic and Slavic Reconstructionists aim for the preservation and revival of historical practices and beliefs of Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient Egypt, the Celts, the Germanic peoples, the Balts and the Slavs, respectively.
Paganism in Eastern Europe and parts of Northern Europe is dominated by Baltic and Slavic movements, rising to visibility after the fall of the Soviet Union ( except for Latvian Dievturība which has been active since 1925 ).
Much narrative poetry — such as Scottish and English ballads, and Baltic and Slavic heroic poems — is performance poetry with roots in a preliterate oral tradition.
In many Germanic and Celtic languages and also in Baltic, Slavic, Hungarian and Chinese, peninsulas are called " half-islands ".
In 1850, in the preface to his Kashubian-Russian dictionary, Florian Ceynowa wrote about the language of Baltic Slavic peoples:
The establishment of the first East Slavic states in the 9th century coincided with the arrival of Varangians, the traders, warriors and settlers from the Baltic Sea region.
The Baltic word is cognate with Slavic земля ( zemlja ), which also means " land ".

Slavic and Sea
The cuisine of the Black Sea Region uses fish extensively, especially the Black Sea anchovy ( hamsi ), has been influenced by Balkan and Slavic cuisine, and includes maize dishes.
While exploiting Slavic weakness in the wake of the Mongol invasion, Gediminas wisely avoided war with the Golden Horde, a great regional power at the time, while expanding Lithuania's border towards the Black Sea.
It lists the twelve Slavic tribal unions who, by the 9th century settled between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea.
After the Slavic invasions of the former Roman province of Dalmatia in the 5th and 6th centuries, a tribe called the Narentines revived the old Illyrian piratical habits and often raided the Adriatic Sea starting in the 7th century.
From the 7th century the West Slavic Rani ( or Rujani ) built an empire on Rügen and the neighbouring coast between Recknitz and Ryck, which decidedly affected the history of both the Baltic Sea area and the surrounding Obodritic-( in the west ) and Liutician-( in the south ) occupied mainland for the next few centuries.
The document contains a list of the tribes in Central-Eastern Europe east of the Elbe and north of the Danube to the Volga rivers to the Black and Caspian Sea most of them of Slavic origin.
After the Migration Period of the Early Middle Ages, Holstein was a borderland between Nordalbingia ( part of Old Saxony ) at the coast of North Sea, the land of the Slavic Wagrians belonging to the Obotrites at the coast of the Baltic Sea and the land of the Danes in Jutland.
The fourth major source are three biographies of the German warrior-bishop St Otto, who in the early 12th century led several military-pastoral expeditions into the regions of Slavic tribes living near the Baltic Sea.
The Pomeranians (; ; ) were a group of West Slavic tribes who lived along the shore of the Baltic Sea between the mouths of the Oder and Vistula Rivers ( the latter Farther Pomerania and Pomerelia ).
In the Roman sphere of influence, Johannes became the Italian Giovanni ( also Gianni, Gian and other derivates ), the Germanic Johann ( also Jannis, Jan, Hans ), the Hungarian János, and the Slavic languages Ivan, Jan, Ján, Honza, Janez and Jovan, and Ion in the area on the Black Sea that is now Romania.
After the Saxon War of 808, the victorious Charlemagne bestowed on the Slavic tribes allied with him ( such as the Obotrites ) part of the Saxon lands between the Elbe and the Baltic Sea.
Another version of their name comes from the Slavic terms of morski Vlasi meaning " Sea Vlachs ".
He significantly expanded the Serbian Principality when he managed to unite several Slavic tribes, stretching his realm over the shores of the Adriatic Sea, the Sava river and the Morava valley.
With other Slavic principalities of Zahumlje, Pagania, Travunia, Duklja and Raška, Časlav established a state that encompassed the shores of the Adriatic Sea, the Sava river and the Morava valley as well as today's northern Albania.
He, like Ivan Gundulić, describes the Slavic peoples from the Adriatic to the North Sea as one people.

Slavic and ended
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.

Slavic and with
His practical experience as a farm manager combined with socialist, " single-tax ," and Slavic communal ideas shaped his world view.
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.
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.
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.
Czech (; čeština ) is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers ; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide.
Macedonian, although mutually intelligible with Bulgarian, certain dialects of Serbian and to a lesser extent the rest of the South Slavic dialect continuum is considered by Bulgarian linguists to be a Bulgarian dialect, in contrast with the contemporary international view, and the view in the Republic of Macedonia which regards it as a language in its own right.
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.
It is the group with the largest numbers of speakers, far out-numbering the Western and Southern Slavic groups.
The East Slavic territory shows definitely a linguistic continuum with many transitional dialects.
The city is close to the former late medieval / modern boundary between West Slavic and Germanic lands and it has a complex political history with periods of Polish rule, periods of German rule, and extensive self-rule, with two spells as a free city.
In missals, the Glagolitic script was eventually replaced with the Latin alphabet, but the use of the Slavic language in the Mass continued, until replaced by the modern vernacular languages.
The Cyrillic alphabet is derived from the Greek alphabet, with ( at least 10 ) letters peculiar to Slavic languages being derived from the Glagolitic.
In other language groups, for example in most modern Indo-European languages ( except Slavic languages ), aspect has become almost entirely conflated, in the verbal morphological system, with time.
Russian, like other Slavic languages, uses different lexical entries for the different aspects, whereas other languages mark them morphologically, and still others with auxiliaries ( e. g., English ).
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.

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