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

As to the source of this ethnonym in the Slavic languages, current literature favors the hypothesis that it comes from the name of the Turkic tribe Onogur ( which means " ten arrows " or " ten tribes ").

In the first years of Polish statehood, southern Lesser Poland was inhabited by the Slavic tribe of Vistulans, with two major centers in Kraków and Wiślica.

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.

Pribislav Henry () ( c. 1075 – 1150 ) was a Christian prince and the last ruler of the Slavic Hevelli tribe in the Northern March of Brandenburg.

During the High Middle Ages, under the Salian emperors and, later, under the Teutonic Knights, German settlers moved east of the River Saale into the area of a western Slavic tribe, the Sorbs.

During the Migration Period, the Slavic tribe of the Carantanians migrated into the Alps in the wake of the expansion of their Avar overlords during the 7th century, mixed with the Celto-Romanic population, and established the realm of Carantania, which covered much of eastern and central Austrian territory.

The city grew out of the early Slavic settlement of Mis ( s ) ni, named for the small river Mis ( s ) na today Meis ( s ) abach ( see Miesbach / Musbach / Mosbach ), inhabited by the Slavic Glomacze tribe and was founded as a German town by King Henry the Fowler in 929.

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.

850, called Bavarian Geographer after its anonymous creator, mentions the Slavic tribe of Wolinians who then had 70 strongholds ( Uelunzani civitates LXX ).

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.

Slav raids on Eastern Roman territory are mentioned in 518, and by the 580s they had conquered large areas referred to as Sclavinia ( Slavdom, from Sklavenoi – Σκλαυηνοι, the early South Slavic tribe which is eponymous to the current ethnic and linguistic Indo-European people ).

The Greater Polish Warta river basin was the original Poland — it is said that the Polans (), a West Slavic tribe, inhabited the Warta river basin from the 8th century.

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 last of these terms derives from the name of an old Eastern Slavic tribe called the Krivichs, who used to inhabit the territory of Belarus.

According to Russian Primary Chronicle, Smolensk ( probably located slightly downstream, at the archaeological site of Gnezdovo ) was the capital of the Slavic Krivich tribe in 882 when Oleg of Novgorod took it in passing from Novgorod to Kiev.

See also: Early history of Pomerania, Rugii, Rani ( Slavic tribe ), Principality of Rugia, Duchy of Pomerania, Swedish Pomerania, Province of Pomerania, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

From the 6th to the 12th centuries, the Jaromarsburg was a cult site for the Rani, a Slavic tribe, which was dedicated to their god Svetovid.

* Rani ( Slavic tribe )

It is better known as the Wendland, a designation referring to the Slavic people of the Wends from Obotrite tribe Drevani, who lived there till the 18th century — the last known user of the local dialect of Polabian language died in 1752.

The castle of Brandenburg, which had been a fortress of the Slavic tribe Stodoranie, was conquered in 929 by King Henry the Fowler.

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 ".