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Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians | East Slavic people consist of which nationalities? |
Serbs, Bulgarians, Croats, Bosniaks, Macedonians, Slovenes, and Montenegrins | South Slavic people consist of which nationalities? |
North Slavs | West and East Slavs are sometimes combined into a single group called what? |
Proto-Slavic | *Slověninъ, plural *Slověne, is the Slavic autonym reconstructed in what? |
Old Church Slavonic | Old 9th century documents describing Slavs were written in what language? |
Procopius | Who wrote about the Slavs in Byzantine Greek in the 6th century? |
Latin | Procopius' contemporary Jordanes referred to the Slavs in what language? |
slovo | What slavic word denotes "people who speak the same language?" |
němci | What slavic word denotes "foreign people?" |
Roman Jakobson | Who considered *Slověninъ do be a derivation from slovo? |
*ḱlew | Slovo, slava, and slukh all originate from what Proto-Indo-European root? |
Pericles | The Ancient Greek κλῆς (klês - "famous") helped create what famous name? |
he word slovo ("word") and the related slava ("fame") and slukh ("hearing") | What three words originated from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱlew- ("be spoken of, fame")? |
sclave | The word Slav could be derived from what Middle English word? |
Sklavinoi | The origin of what Byzantine term is disputed? |
misunderstanding of the Slavic autonym | The Byzantine Greek σκλάβος sklábos "slave," which was in turn apparently derived from what? |
medieval Arab historiographers | The Byzantine term Sklavinoi was loaned into Arabic as Saqaliba by who? |
Lozinski | Who argues that the word *slava once had the meaning of worshipper? |
S.B. Bernstein | Who speculates that *slava derives from a reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *(s)lawos? |
a man from a certain place | The suffix -enin indicates what? |
Henrich Bartek | Who argued that the Old East Slavic Slavuta for the Dnieper River was derived from slova? |
River Danube | The earliest mentions of Slavic raids are across what river? |
Slavic raids | The earliest mentions of what may be dated to the first half of the 6th century? |
c. 600 AD | No archaeological evidence of a Slavic settlement in the Balkans could be securely dated before when? |
the Balkans | There is no evidence of a Slavic settlement where before c. 600 AD? |
in the early 6th century | The Slavs make their first appearance in Byzantine records when? |
the Antes and the Sclaveni | The Slavs were under what name in the early 6th century? |
the Carpathian Mountains, the lower Danube and the Black Sea | According to Byzantine historiographers, tribes of Slavs emerged from what areas? |
the Danubian provinces | Tribes of Slavs were invading what provinces of the Eastern Empire? |
under Justinian I | Under whose reign did Byzantine historiographers describe Slavic tribes? |
Procopius | Who wrote in 545 that "the Sclaveni and the Antae actually had a single name in the remote past; for they were both called Spori in olden times."? |
545 | When did Procopius write that "the Sclaveni and the Antae actually had a single name in the remote past; for they were both called Spori in olden times."? |
Spori | Procopius said Sclaveni and Antae were both called what? |
their social structure and beliefs | What does Procopius describe in his writings of the Sclaveni and Antae? |
the Sclaveni and the Antae | Who did Procopius write about in 545? |
Jordanes | Who tells us that the Sclaveni had swamps and forests for their cities? |
the Sclaveni | Who had swamps and forests for their cities? |
among nearly impenetrable forests, rivers, lakes, and marshes | A 6th-century source refers to the Sclaveni as living where? |
Menander Protector | Who mentions a Daurentius (577–579) that slew an Avar envoy of Khagan Bayan I? |
Daurentius | Who slew an envoy of Khagan Bayan I? |
the Avars | The Slavs were asked to accept the suzerainty of whom? |
Daurentius | Who said, "Others do not conquer our land, we conquer theirs – so it shall always be for us."? |
Khagan Bayan I | Whose envoy was slaughtered by Daurentius? |
the Veneti | An uncertain relationship was held between the Slavs and who? |
east of the River Vistula | The Veneti tribe was located where? |
Veneti | What name may refer both to Balts and Slavs? |
in the Roman period | When was the relationship between the Slavs and Veneti uncertain? |
multi-ethnic confederacies of Eurasia | Slavic-speaking tribes were part of what prior to becoming known to the Roman world? |
the Sarmatian, Hun and Gothic empires | What were some of the multi-ethnic confederacies of Eurasia? |
Germans | Who started the great migration of the Slavs? |
Iberia and north Africa | Some Slavs migrated with the movement of the Vandals to where? |
the Huns and their allies | Who were the Germanic tribes fleeing? |
Around the 6th century | When did Slavs appear on Byzantine borders? |
Byzantine borders | The Slavs appeared on whose borders around the 6th century? |
Peloponnese and Asia Minor | Where else reported Slavic settlements? |
the Eastern Alps | Where had the Slavs settled by the end of the 6th century? |
By the end of the 6th century | When had the Slavs settled the Eastern Alps? |
the first rudiments of state organizations | What appeared among the Slavs when their migratory movements ended? |
When their migratory movements ended | When did the first rudiments of state organizations appear among the Slavs? |
a prince with a treasury and a defense force | Early state organizations where headed by what? |
the Frankish/ Holy Roman Emperors or the Byzantine Emperors | Noble Slavs pledged allegiance to whom? |
the 7th century | When did Samo become the ruler of the first known Slav state? |
Samo | What Frankish merchant was the ruler of the first Slav state in Central Europe? |
Carantania | What is the oldest Slav state in Central Europe? |
681 | When was the first Bulgarian Empire founded? |
Slavic literacy and Christianity | Bulgaria was instrumental in the spread of what to the rest of the Slavic world? |
the Russian Empire, Serbia and Montenegro | What three free Slavic states were in the world as of 1878? |
1878 | When were the Russian Empire, Serbia, and Montenegro the only free Slavic states in the world? |
Bulgaria | Whose official independence was declared in 1908? |
In 1918 | When were independent states as Czechoslovakia, the Second Polish Republic, and the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs established? |
Hitler's | Whose plan for the East entailed killing, deporting, or enslaving the Slavs? |
The Nazi Hunger Plan and Generalplan Ost | What would have led to the starvation of 80 million people in the Soviet Union? |
19.3 million civilians | The Nazi Hunger Plan and Generalplan Ost resulted in the death and imprisonment of how many people? |
Lebensraum | What is the German word for living space? |
succession of wars, famines and other disasters | The first half of the 20th century was marked by what in Russia and the Soviet Union? |
Stephen J. Lee | Who estimated the Russian population was 90 million fewer than it could have been in 1945? |
1945 | When was the Russian population estimated to be about 90 million fewer than it could have been? |
Russia and the Soviet Union | What was marked by succession of wars, famines, and other disasters in the 20th century? |
In the 19th century | When did Pan-Slavism develop as a movement? |
Russian Empire | Pan-Slavism became compromised when what empire started to use it as an ideology justifying its territorial conquests? |
Pan-Slavism | The Russian Empire used what as justification for its territorial conquests? |
Yugoslavia | What notable political union of the 20th century covered most South Slavs? |
1990s | When did Yugoslavia break apart? |
1939–1945 | When was the word "Slavs" used in the national anthem of the Slovak Republic? |
1943–1992 | When was the word "Slavs" used in the national anthem of Yugoslavia? |
1992–2003 | When was the word "Slavs" used in the national anthem of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia? |
2003–2006 | When was the word "Slavs" used in the national anthem of Serbia and Montenegro? |
the Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR and Byelorussian SSR | Many Slavic populations that were part of the Warsaw Pact are originally from where? |
Russians | What is the largest Slavic minority? |
Kazakhstan | Where is the largest Slavic minority located? |
Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles | What other Slavic minorities are in Kazakhstan? |
Pan-Slavism | What movement came into prominence in the mid-19th century that emphasized the common heritage and unity of all the Slavic peoples? |
the Byzantine Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Venice | Where was the main focus of Pan-Slavism? |
The Russian Empire | Who used Pan-Slavism as a political tool? |
between 1945 and 1948 | When did the Soviet Union gain political-military influence and control over most Slavic-majority nations? |
until the period 1989–1991 | How long did the Soviet Union retain a hegemonic role? |
Slavic studies | What began as an almost exclusively linguistic and philological enterprise? |
As early as 1833 | When were Slavic languages recognized as Indo-European? |
Slavic languages | What languages were recognized as Indo-European? |
Indo-European | In 1833, Slavic languages were recognized as what? |
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