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href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_particles" title="Proto-Indo-European particles">Particles</a></li></ul> <hr /> <dl><dt><i>Other</i></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Albanian_language" title="Proto-Albanian language">Proto-Albanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Anatolian_language" title="Proto-Anatolian language">Proto-Anatolian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Armenian_language" title="Proto-Armenian language">Proto-Armenian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language" title="Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic</a> (<a href="/wiki/Proto-Norse_language" title="Proto-Norse language">Proto-Norse</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Italo-Celtic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Italo-Celtic language">Proto-Italo-Celtic</a> (<a href="/wiki/Proto-Celtic_language" title="Proto-Celtic language">Proto-Celtic</a> · <a href="/wiki/Proto-Italic_language" title="Proto-Italic language">Proto-Italic</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Greek_language" title="Proto-Greek language">Proto-Greek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Balto-Slavic_language" title="Proto-Balto-Slavic language">Proto-Balto-Slavic</a> (<a href="/wiki/Proto-Slavic_language" title="Proto-Slavic language">Proto-Slavic</a> · <a href="/wiki/Proto-Baltic_language" title="Proto-Baltic language">Proto-Baltic</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-Iranian_language" title="Proto-Indo-Iranian language">Proto-Indo-Iranian</a> (<a href="/wiki/Proto-Iranian_language" title="Proto-Iranian language">Proto-Iranian</a>)</li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:rgb(220,245,220);padding-left:0.4em;text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)">Philology</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hittite_inscriptions" title="Hittite inscriptions">Hittite inscriptions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hieroglyphic_Luwian" class="mw-redirect" title="Hieroglyphic Luwian">Hieroglyphic Luwian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linear_B" title="Linear B">Linear B</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rigveda" title="Rigveda">Rigveda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avesta" title="Avesta">Avesta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Behistun_Inscription" title="Behistun Inscription">Behistun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_inscriptions" title="Greek inscriptions">Greek epigraphy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phrygian_language#Inscriptions" title="Phrygian language">Phrygian epigraphy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Messapic_language#Inscriptions" title="Messapic language">Messapic epigraphy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Latin#Corpus" title="Old Latin">Latin epigraphy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaulish#Corpus" title="Gaulish">Gaulish epigraphy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Runic_inscriptions" title="Runic inscriptions">Runic epigraphy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ogham" title="Ogham">Ogham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gothic_Bible" title="Gothic Bible">Gothic Bible</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bible_translations_into_Armenian" title="Bible translations into Armenian">Bible translations into Armenian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tocharian_script" title="Tocharian script">Tocharian script</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Irish#Sources" title="Old Irish">Old Irish glosses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanun_(Albania)" title="Kanun (Albania)">Albanian Kanun</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:rgb(220,245,220);padding-left:0.4em;text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)">Origins</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_homeland" title="Proto-Indo-European homeland">Homeland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans" title="Proto-Indo-Europeans">Proto-Indo-Europeans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_society" title="Proto-Indo-European society">Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_mythology" title="Proto-Indo-European mythology">Religion</a></li></ul> <hr /> <dl><dt>Mainstream<br /></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kurgan_hypothesis" title="Kurgan hypothesis">Kurgan hypothesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indo-European_migrations" title="Indo-European migrations">Indo-European migrations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurasian_nomads" title="Eurasian nomads">Eurasian nomads</a></li></ul> <hr /> <dl><dt>Alternative and fringe<br /></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anatolian_hypothesis" title="Anatolian hypothesis">Anatolian hypothesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_hypothesis" title="Armenian hypothesis">Armenian hypothesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beech_argument" title="Beech argument">Beech argument</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indigenous_Aryanism" title="Indigenous Aryanism">Indigenous Aryanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_homeland#Baltic_homeland" title="Proto-Indo-European homeland">Baltic homeland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paleolithic_continuity_theory" class="mw-redirect" title="Paleolithic continuity theory">Paleolithic continuity theory</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:rgb(220,245,220);padding-left:0.4em;text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)">Archaeology</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Chalcolithic" title="Chalcolithic">Chalcolithic (Copper Age)</a><br /></dt></dl> <p><i>Pontic Steppe</i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Domestication_of_the_horse" title="Domestication of the horse">Domestication of the horse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurgan" title="Kurgan">Kurgan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kurgan_stelae" title="Kurgan stelae">Kurgan stelae</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurgan_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurgan culture">Kurgan culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Horse,_the_Wheel,_and_Language" title="The Horse, the Wheel, and Language">Steppe cultures</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Bug%E2%80%93Dniester_culture" title="Bug–Dniester culture">Bug–Dniester</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Sredny_Stog_culture" title="Sredny Stog culture">Sredny Stog</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Dnieper%E2%80%93Donets_culture" title="Dnieper–Donets culture">Dnieper–Donets</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Samara_culture" title="Samara culture">Samara</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Khvalynsk_culture" title="Khvalynsk culture">Khvalynsk</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Yamnaya_culture" title="Yamnaya culture">Yamnaya</a></span> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Mikhaylovka_culture" title="Mikhaylovka culture">Mikhaylovka culture</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Novotitarovskaya_culture" title="Novotitarovskaya culture">Novotitarovskaya culture</a></span></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <p><i>Caucasus</i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maykop_culture" title="Maykop culture">Maykop</a></li></ul> <p><i>East Asia</i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afanasievo_culture" title="Afanasievo culture">Afanasievo</a></li></ul> <p><i>Eastern Europe</i><br /> </p> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Usatovo_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Usatovo culture">Usatovo</a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cernavod%C4%83_culture" title="Cernavodă culture">Cernavodă</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cucuteni%E2%80%93Trypillia_culture" title="Cucuteni–Trypillia culture">Cucuteni</a></li></ul> <p><i>Northern Europe</i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Corded_Ware_culture" title="Corded Ware culture">Corded ware</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Baden_culture" title="Baden culture">Baden</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Middle_Dnieper_culture" title="Middle Dnieper culture">Middle Dnieper</a></span></li></ul></li></ul> <hr /> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age" title="Bronze Age">Bronze Age</a><br /></dt></dl> <p><i>Pontic Steppe</i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chariot" title="Chariot">Chariot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yamnaya_culture" title="Yamnaya culture">Yamnaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catacomb_culture" title="Catacomb culture">Catacomb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multi-cordoned_ware_culture" title="Multi-cordoned ware culture">Multi-cordoned ware</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poltavka_culture" title="Poltavka culture">Poltavka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Srubnaya_culture" title="Srubnaya culture">Srubnaya</a></li></ul> <p><i>Northern/Eastern Steppe</i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abashevo_culture" title="Abashevo culture">Abashevo culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andronovo_culture" title="Andronovo culture">Andronovo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sintashta_culture" title="Sintashta culture">Sintashta</a></li></ul> <p><i>Europe</i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Globular_Amphora_culture" title="Globular Amphora culture">Globular Amphora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corded_Ware_culture" title="Corded Ware culture">Corded ware</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bell_Beaker_culture" title="Bell Beaker culture">Bell Beaker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9An%C4%9Btice_culture" title="Únětice culture">Únětice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trzciniec_culture" title="Trzciniec culture">Trzciniec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nordic_Bronze_Age" title="Nordic Bronze Age">Nordic Bronze Age</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terramare_culture" title="Terramare culture">Terramare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tumulus_culture" title="Tumulus culture">Tumulus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urnfield_culture" title="Urnfield culture">Urnfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lusatian_culture" title="Lusatian culture">Lusatian</a></li></ul> <p><i>South Asia</i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bactria%E2%80%93Margiana_Archaeological_Complex" title="Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex">BMAC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yaz_culture" title="Yaz culture">Yaz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gandhara_grave_culture" title="Gandhara grave culture">Gandhara grave</a></li></ul> <hr /> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a></dt></dl> <p><i>Steppe</i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chernoles_culture" title="Chernoles culture">Chernoles</a></li></ul> <p><i>Europe</i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thraco-Cimmerian" title="Thraco-Cimmerian">Thraco-Cimmerian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hallstatt_culture" title="Hallstatt culture">Hallstatt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jastorf_culture" title="Jastorf culture">Jastorf</a></li></ul> <p><i>Caucasus</i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colchian_culture" title="Colchian culture">Colchian</a></li></ul> <p><i>India</i> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Painted_Grey_Ware_culture" title="Painted Grey Ware culture">Painted Grey Ware</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Black_Polished_Ware" title="Northern Black Polished Ware">Northern Black Polished Ware</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:rgb(220,245,220);padding-left:0.4em;text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)">Peoples and societies</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age" title="Bronze Age">Bronze Age</a></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anatolian_peoples" title="Anatolian peoples">Anatolian peoples</a> (<span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Hittites" title="Hittites">Hittites</a></span>) <br /></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mycenaean_Greece" title="Mycenaean Greece">Mycenaean Greeks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indo-Iranians" title="Indo-Iranians">Indo-Iranians</a></li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a></dt></dl> <p><i>Indo-Aryans</i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indo-Aryan_peoples" title="Indo-Aryan peoples">Indo-Aryans</a></li></ul> <p><i>Iranians</i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_peoples" title="Iranian peoples">Iranians</a></li></ul> <p><i>East Asia</i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wusun" title="Wusun">Wusun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuezhi" title="Yuezhi">Yuezhi</a></li></ul> <p><i>Europe</i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Celts" title="Celts">Celts</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Gauls" title="Gauls">Gauls</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Celtiberians" title="Celtiberians">Celtiberians</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Insular_Celts" title="Insular Celts">Insular Celts</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cimmerians" title="Cimmerians">Cimmerians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greeks" title="Greeks">Hellenic peoples</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italic_peoples" title="Italic peoples">Italic peoples</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germanic_peoples" title="Germanic peoples">Germanic peoples</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paleo-Balkan_languages" title="Paleo-Balkan languages">Paleo-Balkan</a>/<a href="/wiki/Iron_Age_Anatolia" class="mw-redirect" title="Iron Age Anatolia">Anatolia</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Thracians" title="Thracians">Thracians</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Dacians" title="Dacians">Dacians</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Illyrians" title="Illyrians">Illyrians</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Paeonians" title="Paeonians">Paeonians</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Phrygians" title="Phrygians">Phrygians</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scythians" title="Scythians">Scythians</a></li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a></dt></dl> <p><i>East Asia</i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tocharians" title="Tocharians">Tocharians</a></li></ul> <p><i>Europe</i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Origin_of_the_Albanians" title="Origin of the Albanians">Albanians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balts" title="Balts">Balts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Early_Slavs" title="Early Slavs">Slavs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norsemen" title="Norsemen">Norsemen</a>/<a href="/wiki/North_Germanic_peoples" title="North Germanic peoples">Medieval Scandinavians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a></li></ul> <p><i>Indo-Aryan</i> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Medieval_India" title="Medieval India">Medieval India</a></li></ul> <p><i>Iranian</i> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Iran" title="Greater Iran">Greater Iran</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:rgb(220,245,220);padding-left:0.4em;text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)">Religion and mythology</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <dl><dt><i>Reconstructed</i></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_mythology" title="Proto-Indo-European mythology">Proto-Indo-European mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-Iranian_paganism" title="Proto-Indo-Iranian paganism">Proto-Indo-Iranian paganism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_Vedic_religion" title="Historical Vedic religion">Historical Vedic religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Iranian_religion" title="Ancient Iranian religion">Ancient Iranian religion</a></li></ul> <hr /> <dl><dt><i>Historical</i></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hittite_mythology_and_religion" title="Hittite mythology and religion">Hittite</a></li></ul> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Indian_religions" title="Indian religions">Indo-Aryan</a></i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historical_Vedic_religion" title="Historical Vedic religion">Vedic</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jainism</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Sikhism" title="Sikhism">Sikhism</a></span></li></ul> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Iranian_religions" title="Iranian religions">Iranian</a></i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Persian_mythology" title="Persian mythology">Persian</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Zoroastrianism" title="Zoroastrianism">Zoroastrianism</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurdish_mythology" title="Kurdish mythology">Kurdish</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Yazidis" title="Yazidis">Yazidism</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Yarsanism" title="Yarsanism">Yarsanism</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scythian_religion" title="Scythian religion">Scythian</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Ossetian_mythology" title="Ossetian mythology">Ossetian</a></span></li></ul></li></ul> <p><i>Others</i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_mythology" title="Armenian mythology">Armenian</a></li></ul> <p><i><a href="/wiki/European_paganism" class="mw-redirect" title="European paganism">European</a></i><br /> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paleo-Balkan_mythology" title="Paleo-Balkan mythology">Paleo-Balkan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Albanian_paganism" title="Albanian paganism">Albanian</a> <b>·</b> <a href="/wiki/Illyrian_religion" title="Illyrian religion">Illyrian</a> <b>·</b> <a href="/wiki/Thracian_religion" title="Thracian religion">Thracian</a> <b>·</b> <a href="/wiki/Dacian_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Dacian religion">Dacian</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_religion" title="Ancient Greek religion">Greek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome" title="Religion in ancient Rome">Roman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Celtic_religion" title="Ancient Celtic religion">Celtic</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Irish_mythology" title="Irish mythology">Irish</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_mythology" title="Scottish mythology">Scottish</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Breton_mythology" title="Breton mythology">Breton</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Welsh_mythology" title="Welsh mythology">Welsh</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Cornish_mythology" title="Cornish mythology">Cornish</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germanic_paganism" title="Germanic paganism">Germanic</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_paganism" title="Anglo-Saxon paganism">Anglo-Saxon</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Continental_Germanic_mythology" title="Continental Germanic mythology">Continental</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Old_Norse_religion" title="Old Norse religion">Norse</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baltic_mythology" title="Baltic mythology">Baltic</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Latvian_mythology" title="Latvian mythology">Latvian</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_mythology" title="Lithuanian mythology">Lithuanian</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavic_paganism" title="Slavic paganism">Slavic</a></li></ul> <dl><dt><i>Practices</i></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fire_worship#Indo-European_religions" title="Fire worship">Fire rituals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horse_sacrifice" title="Horse sacrifice">Horse sacrifice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sati_(practice)" title="Sati (practice)">Sati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winter_solstice" title="Winter solstice">Winter solstice</a>/<a href="/wiki/Yule" title="Yule">Yule</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:rgb(220,245,220);padding-left:0.4em;text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Indo-European_studies" title="Indo-European studies">Indo-European studies</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <dl><dt><i>Scholars</i></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marija_Gimbutas" title="Marija Gimbutas">Marija Gimbutas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._P._Mallory" title="J. P. Mallory">J. P. Mallory</a></li></ul> <dl><dt><i>Institutes</i></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Copenhagen_Studies_in_Indo-European" title="Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European">Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European</a></li></ul> <dl><dt><i>Publications</i></dt></dl> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Indo-European_Culture" title="Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture">Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Horse,_the_Wheel,_and_Language" title="The Horse, the Wheel, and Language">The Horse, the Wheel, and Language</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Journal_of_Indo-European_Studies" title="Journal of Indo-European Studies">Journal of Indo-European Studies</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Indogermanisches_etymologisches_W%C3%B6rterbuch" title="Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch">Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Indo-European_Etymological_Dictionary" title="Indo-European Etymological Dictionary">Indo-European Etymological Dictionary</a></i></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>This is a list of <a href="/wiki/Early_Slavs" title="Early Slavs">early Slavic peoples</a> reported in <a href="/wiki/Late_Antiquity" class="mw-redirect" title="Late Antiquity">Late Antiquity</a> and in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>, that is, before the year AD 1500. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ancestors">Ancestors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_early_Slavic_peoples&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Ancestors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Indo-European_Migrations._Source_David_Anthony_(2007),_The_Horse,_The_Wheel_and_Language.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Indo-European_Migrations._Source_David_Anthony_%282007%29%2C_The_Horse%2C_The_Wheel_and_Language.jpg/220px-Indo-European_Migrations._Source_David_Anthony_%282007%29%2C_The_Horse%2C_The_Wheel_and_Language.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Indo-European_Migrations._Source_David_Anthony_%282007%29%2C_The_Horse%2C_The_Wheel_and_Language.jpg/330px-Indo-European_Migrations._Source_David_Anthony_%282007%29%2C_The_Horse%2C_The_Wheel_and_Language.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Indo-European_Migrations._Source_David_Anthony_%282007%29%2C_The_Horse%2C_The_Wheel_and_Language.jpg/440px-Indo-European_Migrations._Source_David_Anthony_%282007%29%2C_The_Horse%2C_The_Wheel_and_Language.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2906" data-file-height="1642" /></a><figcaption>Map 1: <a href="/wiki/Indo-European_migrations" title="Indo-European migrations">Indo-European migrations</a> as described in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Horse,_the_Wheel,_and_Language" title="The Horse, the Wheel, and Language">The Horse, the Wheel, and Language</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/David_W._Anthony" title="David W. Anthony">David W. Anthony</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans" title="Proto-Indo-Europeans">Proto-Indo-Europeans</a> (<a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language" title="Proto-Indo-European language">Proto-Indo-European</a> speakers) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Balto-Slavs" class="mw-redirect" title="Balto-Slavs">Proto-Balto-Slavs</a> (common ancestors of <a href="/wiki/Balts" title="Balts">Balts</a> and <a href="/wiki/Slavs" title="Slavs">Slavs</a>) (<a href="/wiki/Proto-Balto-Slavic" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Balto-Slavic">Proto-Balto-Slavic</a> speakers) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Slavs" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Slavs">Proto-Slavs</a> (<a href="/wiki/Proto-Slavic_language" title="Proto-Slavic language">Proto-Slavic</a> speakers)</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Antiquity">Antiquity</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_early_Slavic_peoples&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Antiquity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:East_europe_3-4cc.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/East_europe_3-4cc.png/220px-East_europe_3-4cc.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/East_europe_3-4cc.png/330px-East_europe_3-4cc.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/East_europe_3-4cc.png/440px-East_europe_3-4cc.png 2x" data-file-width="3935" data-file-height="3033" /></a><figcaption>Eastern Europe in 3rd to 4th centuries CE, with <a href="/wiki/Archeological_cultures" class="mw-redirect" title="Archeological cultures">archeological cultures</a> identified as Baltic-speaking in purple, Slavic-speaking in light brown, and Finno-Ugric-speaking in green</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:East_europe_5-6cc.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/East_europe_5-6cc.png/220px-East_europe_5-6cc.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/East_europe_5-6cc.png/330px-East_europe_5-6cc.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/East_europe_5-6cc.png/440px-East_europe_5-6cc.png 2x" data-file-width="3935" data-file-height="3033" /></a><figcaption>During the <a href="/wiki/Migration_Period" title="Migration Period">Migration Period</a> in 5th and 6th centuries CE, the area of <a href="/wiki/Archeological_cultures" class="mw-redirect" title="Archeological cultures">archeological cultures</a> identified as Baltic and Slavic became more fragmented.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Sporoi" title="Sporoi">Sporoi</a></b> (also known as <a href="/wiki/Vistula_Veneti" title="Vistula Veneti">Vistula Veneti</a>): common ancestors of all <a href="/wiki/Slavs" title="Slavs">Slavs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Proto-Slavs" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Slavs">Proto-Slavs</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/West_Slavs" title="West Slavs"> West-Slavic</a> Veneti. It is hypothesized that <a href="/wiki/Proto-Slavs" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Slavs">Proto-Slavs</a> had their origin in the area of present-day western <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a> - west of the <a href="/wiki/Dnieper" title="Dnieper">Dnieper</a>, east of the <a href="/wiki/Vistula" title="Vistula">Vistula</a>, south of the <a href="/wiki/Pripyat_Marshes" class="mw-redirect" title="Pripyat Marshes">Pripyat Marshes</a> and north of the <a href="/wiki/Carpathian_Mountains" title="Carpathian Mountains">Carpathian Mountains</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Dniester" title="Dniester">Dniester</a>, to the northwest of the <a href="/wiki/Pontic_steppe" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontic steppe">Pontic</a> <a href="/wiki/Eurasian_Steppes" class="mw-redirect" title="Eurasian Steppes">Eurasian Steppes</a> and south of the <a href="/wiki/Baltic_peoples" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltic peoples">Baltic peoples</a>, especially <a href="/wiki/Balts" title="Balts">West Baltic</a> peoples, with whom they have common ancestors, the <a href="/wiki/Balto-Slavs" class="mw-redirect" title="Balto-Slavs">Balto-Slavs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Proto-Slavs" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Slavs">Proto-Slavs</a> are mainly associated with the <a href="/wiki/Zarubintsy_culture" title="Zarubintsy culture">Zarubintsy culture</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="Quotation needed from source to verify. (October 2024)">need quotation to verify</span></a></i>]</sup> that had possible links to the ancient peoples of the <a href="/wiki/Vistula" title="Vistula">Vistula</a> basin (<a href="/wiki/Przeworsk_culture" title="Przeworsk culture">Przeworsk culture</a>). <a href="/wiki/Proto-Slavs" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Slavs">Proto</a> and <a href="/wiki/Early_Slavs" title="Early Slavs">Early Slavs</a>, who were closely related to the <a href="/wiki/Balts" title="Balts">Balts</a>, were more influenced by the ancient <a href="/wiki/Celts" title="Celts">Celts</a> (<a href="/wiki/La_T%C3%A8ne_culture" title="La Tène culture">La Tène culture</a>) and by the <a href="/wiki/Scythians" title="Scythians">Scythians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sarmatians" title="Sarmatians">Sarmatians</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pontic_steppe" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontic steppe">Western</a> <a href="/wiki/Eurasian_Steppe" title="Eurasian Steppe">Eurasian Steppe</a> <a href="/wiki/Iranian_peoples" title="Iranian peoples">Iranian peoples</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Northeast_Iranian" class="mw-redirect" title="Northeast Iranian">northeast group</a> who were nomads or seminomads).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Marija_Gimbutas" title="Marija Gimbutas">Marija Gimbutas</a>, the people named "<a href="/w/index.php?title=Scythian_Farmers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Scythian Farmers (page does not exist)">Scythian Farmers</a>", mentioned by <a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a>, were the <a href="/wiki/Proto-Slavs" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Slavs">Proto-Slavs</a> or <a href="/wiki/Early_Slavs" title="Early Slavs">Early Slavs</a>, who bordered and lived south of the <a href="/wiki/Balts" title="Balts">Balts</a>, and not <a href="/wiki/Scythians" title="Scythians">Scythians</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Antes_(people)" class="mw-redirect" title="Antes (people)">Antes</a></b>: common ancestors of the <a href="/wiki/East_Slavs" title="East Slavs">East Slavs</a> and most <a href="/wiki/Eastern_South_Slavic_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern South Slavic languages">Eastern South Slavs</a>. Also contributed to the <a href="/wiki/West_Slavs" title="West Slavs">West Slavs</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/West_Slavs" title="West Slavs">Veneti</a></b>: common ancestors of the <a href="/wiki/West_Slavs" title="West Slavs">West Slavs</a>. Also contributed to the <a href="/wiki/Western_South_Slavic_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Western South Slavic languages">Western South Slavs</a> and the <a href="/wiki/East_Slavs" title="East Slavs">East Slavs</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Sclaveni" title="Sclaveni">Sclaveni</a></b>: ancestors of the <a href="/wiki/Western_South_Slavic_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Western South Slavic languages">Western South Slavs</a>. Their name was adopted by the Byzantines in the 600s as a catch-all for all Balkan Slavs, regardless of origin</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Middle_Ages">Middle Ages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_early_Slavic_peoples&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Middle Ages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Slav-7-8-obrez.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Slav-7-8-obrez.png/220px-Slav-7-8-obrez.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="242" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Slav-7-8-obrez.png/330px-Slav-7-8-obrez.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Slav-7-8-obrez.png/440px-Slav-7-8-obrez.png 2x" data-file-width="3051" data-file-height="3359" /></a><figcaption>Map 4: By the 7-8th century CE, the Slavic territory was greatly increased after <a href="/wiki/Slavic_migration" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavic migration">Slavic migration</a> and expansion (in the context of <a href="/wiki/Migration_period" class="mw-redirect" title="Migration period">Migration period</a>).</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/List_of_early_Slavic_peoples" title="Special:EditPage/List of early Slavic peoples">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. 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Assimilated into several East Slavic tribes or were the ancestors of them: the <a href="/wiki/Volhynians" title="Volhynians">Volhynians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Drevlians" title="Drevlians">Drevlians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Polans_(eastern)" title="Polans (eastern)">Polans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dregoviches" title="Dregoviches">Dregoviches</a>, and possibly <a href="/wiki/Buzhans" title="Buzhans">Buzhans</a>, eventually to become part of the <a href="/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27" title="Kievan Rus'">Kievan Rus'</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buzhans" title="Buzhans">Buzhans</a> / <a href="/wiki/Buzhans" title="Buzhans">Bugans</a> (<i>Bugane</i> > <i>Buzhane</i>; [g] > [ʒ]; zh = [ʒ]) (in the regions of the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Bug" title="Southern Bug">Southern Bug</a> and <a href="/wiki/Western_Bug" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Bug">Western Bug</a> rivers) <ul><li>Southern Bug Buzhans (Southern Bug <a href="/wiki/Early_Slavs" title="Early Slavs">Slavs</a>) (<i>Buzhane</i>), ancestors of Ukrainians and Russians<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Western Bug Buzhans (<a href="/wiki/Western_Bug" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Bug">Western Bug</a> Slavs) / <a href="/wiki/Volhynians" title="Volhynians">Volhynians</a> (<i>Volynyane</i>), ancestors of Ukrainians, part of <a href="/wiki/Czechs" title="Czechs">Czechs</a>, and Poles.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dregoviches" title="Dregoviches">Dregoviches</a> / Dregovichians (<i>Dregovichi</i>), same with <a href="/wiki/Drougoubitai" title="Drougoubitai">Draguvites</a>, ancestors of Belarusians</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drevlians" title="Drevlians">Drevlyans</a> (<i>Drevlyane</i>), ancestors of Ukrainians and Belarusians</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polans_(eastern)" title="Polans (eastern)">Polans (eastern)</a> (<i>Polyane</i>), ancestors of Ukrainians, in <a href="/wiki/Dnieper" title="Dnieper">Dnieper</a> right (western) bank, <a href="/wiki/Kyiv_Oblast" title="Kyiv Oblast">Kyiv region</a>.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tivertsi" title="Tivertsi">Teverians</a> (<i>Tivertsi / Tyvertsi</i>) / <a href="/wiki/Tivertsi" title="Tivertsi">Stadici</a> / <a href="/wiki/Tivertsi" title="Tivertsi">Stadichi</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Tivertsi" title="Tivertsi">Stadychi</a></i>)?,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ancestors of Ukrainians and part of <a href="/wiki/Moldovans" title="Moldovans">Moldovans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Romanians" title="Romanians">Romanians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Croats" title="White Croats">White Croats</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Prykarpattia" title="Prykarpattia">Prykarpattia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zakarpattia_Oblast" title="Zakarpattia Oblast">Zakarpattia</a>, ancestors of <a href="/wiki/Rusyns" title="Rusyns">Rusyns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukrainians" title="Ukrainians">Ukrainians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poles_(people)" class="mw-redirect" title="Poles (people)">Poles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Slovaks" title="Slovaks">Slovaks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Czechs" title="Czechs">Czechs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Croats" title="Croats">Croats</a></li></ul></li> <li><b>Southern group</b> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Slavs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Don Slavs (page does not exist)">Don Slavs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulichians" class="mw-redirect" title="Ulichians">Ulichians</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Ulichi" class="mw-redirect" title="Ulichi">Ulichi</a></i>), ancestors of Ukrainians, and part of <a href="/wiki/Romanians" title="Romanians">Romanians</a> (especially <a href="/wiki/Moldovans" title="Moldovans">Moldovans</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><b>Central group</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Radimichs" title="Radimichs">Radimichians</a> / <a href="/wiki/Radimichs" title="Radimichs">Radimichs</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Radimichi" class="mw-redirect" title="Radimichi">Radimichi</a></i>), ancestors of <a href="/wiki/Belarusians" title="Belarusians">Belarusians</a> and part of <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a>. Mentioned as being a <a href="/wiki/Lyakh" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyakh">Lyakh</a> tribes.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Severians" title="Severians">Severians</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Severyane" class="mw-redirect" title="Severyane">Severyane</a></i>), ancestors of Ukrainians, Russians and part of <a href="/wiki/Bulgarians" title="Bulgarians">Slavic Bulgarians</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><b>Old Russian group</b> / <b>Northern Russian group</b> / <b>Northern Ruthenian group</b> / <b>Northern Old East Slavs</b> <ul><li><b>Northeastern group</b> (Krivichian-Vyatichian group) (<a href="/wiki/Krivichians" class="mw-redirect" title="Krivichians">Krivichians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vyatichi" title="Vyatichi">Vyatichians</a> had a relevant part in the formation of Proto-Russians) <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Krivichians" class="mw-redirect" title="Krivichians">Krivichians</a></b> (<i><a href="/wiki/Krivichi" class="mw-redirect" title="Krivichi">Krivichi</a></i>), ancestors of Belarusians and Russians (<a href="/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27" title="Kievan Rus'">Kievan Rus'</a> <a href="/wiki/Rus%27_principalities" class="mw-redirect" title="Rus' principalities">Principalities</a> roughly corresponded to older tribal lands) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Polochans" title="Polochans">Polochans</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Polochans" title="Polochans">Polochane</a></i>) / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Polotskian_Krivichians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Polotskian Krivichians (page does not exist)">Polotskian Krivichians</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Polotsk_Principality" class="mw-redirect" title="Polotsk Principality">Polotsk Land</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Polotsk_Principality" class="mw-redirect" title="Polotsk Principality">Polotskaya Zemlya</a></i>) (later <a href="/wiki/Polotsk_Principality" class="mw-redirect" title="Polotsk Principality">Polotsk Principality</a>), ancestors of Belarusians</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pskovians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pskovians (page does not exist)">Pskovians</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pskovian_Krivichians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pskovian Krivichians (page does not exist)">Pskovian Krivichians</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Pskov_Oblast" title="Pskov Oblast">Pskov Land</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Pskovskaya_oblast%27" class="mw-redirect" title="Pskovskaya oblast'">Pskovskaya Zemlya</a></i>), ancestors of Russians</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Smolenians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Smolenians (page does not exist)">Smolenians</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Smolenian_Krivichians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Smolenian Krivichians (page does not exist)">Smolenian Krivichians</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Smolensk_principality" class="mw-redirect" title="Smolensk principality">Smolensk Land</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Smolensk_principality" class="mw-redirect" title="Smolensk principality">Smolenskaya Zemlya</a></i>) (later <a href="/wiki/Smolensk_Principality" class="mw-redirect" title="Smolensk Principality">Smolensk Principality</a>), ancestors of Russians</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tverians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tverians (page does not exist)">Tverians</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tverian_Krivichians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tverian Krivichians (page does not exist)">Tverian Krivichians</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Tver_Principality" class="mw-redirect" title="Tver Principality">Tver Land</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Tver_Principality" class="mw-redirect" title="Tver Principality">Tver'skaya Zemlya</a></i>) (later <a href="/wiki/Tver_Principality" class="mw-redirect" title="Tver Principality">Tver Principality</a>), ancestors of Russians</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zalessians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zalessians (page does not exist)">Zalessians</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Zalessian_Krivichians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zalessian Krivichians (page does not exist)">Zalessian Krivichians</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Zalesye" title="Zalesye">Zalessa Land</a> or <i><a href="/wiki/Zalesye" title="Zalesye">Zalesye</a></i> (<i><a href="/wiki/Zalesye" title="Zalesye">Zalesskaya Zemlya</a></i>) / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Opolyans&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Opolyans (page does not exist)">Opolyans</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Opolyan_Krivichians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Opolyan Krivichians (page does not exist)">Opolyan Krivichians</a>, in Opolye Land or <a href="/wiki/Opolye" class="mw-redirect" title="Opolye">Opolye</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Opolye" class="mw-redirect" title="Opolye">Opolskaya Zemlya</a></i>) (later <a href="/wiki/Rostov-Suzdal" class="mw-redirect" title="Rostov-Suzdal">Rostov-Suzdal Principality</a> or <a href="/wiki/Vladimir-Suzdal_Principality" class="mw-redirect" title="Vladimir-Suzdal Principality">Vladimir-Suzdal Principality</a>, that gradually evolved into the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Moscow" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Duchy of Moscow">Grand Duchy of Moscow</a> also called <a href="/wiki/Muscovite_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Muscovite Russia">Muscovite Russia</a> or <a href="/wiki/Muscovite_Rus%27" class="mw-redirect" title="Muscovite Rus'">Muscovite Rus'</a>) (this political entity is traditionally perceived as a cradle of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Russian_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Russian language">Great Russian language</a> and Great Russian people, i.e. the Russians as a distinct Slavic people) (originally <a href="/wiki/Moscow_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Moscow region">Moscow region</a> was an enclave inhabited by a remnant of the Dniepr-Oka <a href="/wiki/Baltic_peoples" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltic peoples">Baltic peoples</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Galindians" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Galindians">Eastern Galindians</a> or <a href="/wiki/Galindians" title="Galindians">Goliad'</a>, which were conquered in the middle of 11th century by <a href="/wiki/Rostov-Suzdal" class="mw-redirect" title="Rostov-Suzdal">Rostov-Suzdal</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Vyatichi" title="Vyatichi">Vyatichians</a></b> (<i><a href="/wiki/Vyatichi" title="Vyatichi">Vyatichi</a></i>) also <b><a href="/wiki/Vyatichi" title="Vyatichi">Oka Slavs</a></b>, described as a <a href="/wiki/Lyakh" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyakh">Lyakh</a> tribe(s), ancestors of Russians<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<a href="/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27" title="Kievan Rus'">Kievan Rus'</a> <a href="/wiki/Rus%27_principalities" class="mw-redirect" title="Rus' principalities">Principalities</a> roughly corresponded to older tribal lands) <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kozelians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kozelians (page does not exist)">Kozelians</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kozelian_Vyatichians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kozelian Vyatichians (page does not exist)">Kozelian Vyatichians</a>, in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kozelsk_Land&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kozelsk Land (page does not exist)">Kozelsk Land</a> (roughly in today's <a href="/wiki/Kozelsk" title="Kozelsk">Kozelsk</a> town and <a href="/wiki/Kaluga_Oblast" title="Kaluga Oblast">Kaluga</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tula_Oblast" title="Tula Oblast">Tula</a> regions, later part of the <a href="/wiki/Chernigov_Principality" class="mw-redirect" title="Chernigov Principality">Chernigov Principality</a> by conquest)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ryazanians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ryazanians (page does not exist)">Ryazanians</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ryazanian_Vyatichians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ryazanian Vyatichians (page does not exist)">Ryazanian Vyatichians</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Ryazan_Principality" class="mw-redirect" title="Ryazan Principality">Ryazan' Land</a> (later <a href="/wiki/Ryazan_Principality" class="mw-redirect" title="Ryazan Principality">Ryazan Principality</a> or <a href="/wiki/Murom-Ryazan_Principality" class="mw-redirect" title="Murom-Ryazan Principality">Murom-Ryazan</a>)</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><b>Northwestern group</b> (possible <b>Northern Slavic group?</b>) (they had a relevant part in the formation of Proto-Russians) <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Ilmen_Slavs" class="mw-redirect" title="Ilmen Slavs">Ilmen Slavs</a></b> / <b><a href="/wiki/Ilmen_Slavs" class="mw-redirect" title="Ilmen Slavs">Ilmen Slovenians</a></b> (<i><a href="/wiki/Ilmen_Slavs" class="mw-redirect" title="Ilmen Slavs">Slovene</a></i>), also known as <a href="/wiki/Ilmen_Slavs" class="mw-redirect" title="Ilmen Slavs">Novgorod Slovenes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Slavs" title="Novgorod Slavs">Novgorod Slavs</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Ilmen_Slavs" class="mw-redirect" title="Ilmen Slavs">Slovene</a></i>), ancestors of Russians <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bezhetians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bezhetians (page does not exist)">Bezhetians</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bezhetian_Ilmen_Slovenians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bezhetian Ilmen Slovenians (page does not exist)">Bezhetian Ilmen Slovenians</a> (in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bezhetsk_Land&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bezhetsk Land (page does not exist)">Bezhetsk Land</a> - <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bezhetsk_Land&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bezhetsk Land (page does not exist)">Begetskaja Zemlja</a></i>) (later part of the <a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Land" title="Novgorod Land">Novgorod Land</a> - <i><a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Land" title="Novgorod Land">Novgorodskaja Zemlja</a></i>, and the <a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Republic" title="Novgorod Republic">Novgorod Republic</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derevians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Derevians (page does not exist)">Derevians</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Derevian_Ilmen_Slovenians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Derevian Ilmen Slovenians (page does not exist)">Derevian Ilmen Slovenians</a> (in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Dereva_Land&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dereva Land (page does not exist)">Dereva Land</a> - <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dereva_Land&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dereva Land (page does not exist)">Derevskaja Zemlja</a></i>) (later part of the <a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Land" title="Novgorod Land">Novgorod Land</a> - <i><a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Land" title="Novgorod Land">Novgorodskaja Zemlja</a></i>, and the <a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Republic" title="Novgorod Republic">Novgorod Republic</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Obonegians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Obonegians (page does not exist)">Obonegians</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Obonegian_Ilmen_Slovenians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Obonegian Ilmen Slovenians (page does not exist)">Obonegian Ilmen Slovenians</a> (in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Obonego_Land&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Obonego Land (page does not exist)">Obonego Land</a> - <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Obonego_Land&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Obonego Land (page does not exist)">Obonegskaja Zemlja</a></i>) (later part of the <a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Land" title="Novgorod Land">Novgorod Land</a> - <i><a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Land" title="Novgorod Land">Novgorodskaja Zemlja</a></i>, and the <a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Republic" title="Novgorod Republic">Novgorod Republic</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shelonians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shelonians (page does not exist)">Shelonians</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Shelonian_Ilmen_Slovenians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shelonian Ilmen Slovenians (page does not exist)">Shelonian Ilmen Slovenians</a> (in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Shelona_Land&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shelona Land (page does not exist)">Shelona Land</a> - <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shelona_Land&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shelona Land (page does not exist)">Shelonskaja Zemlja</a></i>) (later part of the <a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Land" title="Novgorod Land">Novgorod Land</a> - <i><a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Land" title="Novgorod Land">Novgorodskaja Zemlja</a></i>, and the <a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Republic" title="Novgorod Republic">Novgorod Republic</a>)</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="West_Slavs">West Slavs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_early_Slavic_peoples&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: West Slavs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:West_slavs_9th-10th_c..png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/West_slavs_9th-10th_c..png/220px-West_slavs_9th-10th_c..png" decoding="async" width="220" height="182" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/West_slavs_9th-10th_c..png/330px-West_slavs_9th-10th_c..png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/West_slavs_9th-10th_c..png/440px-West_slavs_9th-10th_c..png 2x" data-file-width="876" data-file-height="723" /></a><figcaption>Map 7: West Slav tribes in 9th and 10th centuries</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%C4%8Cesk%C3%A9_kmeny.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/%C4%8Cesk%C3%A9_kmeny.png/220px-%C4%8Cesk%C3%A9_kmeny.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="127" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/%C4%8Cesk%C3%A9_kmeny.png/330px-%C4%8Cesk%C3%A9_kmeny.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/%C4%8Cesk%C3%A9_kmeny.png/440px-%C4%8Cesk%C3%A9_kmeny.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="460" /></a><figcaption>Map 8: Slavic Bohemian tribes shown in various colors and <a href="/wiki/Moravians_(tribe)" title="Moravians (tribe)">Moravians</a> in red, on a map of modern Czech Republic</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/West_Slavs" title="West Slavs">Veneti</a></b> / <b><a href="/wiki/Wends" title="Wends">Wends</a></b> Lechitic ancestors of <a href="/wiki/West_Slavs" title="West Slavs">West Slavs</a>; some were also the ancestors of part of <a href="/wiki/South_Slavs" title="South Slavs">South Slavs</a> <ul><li><b>Czech–Moravian-Slovak group</b> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Bohemians_(tribe)" title="Bohemians (tribe)">Bohemians</a></b> (<i><b><a href="/wiki/Bohemians_(tribe)" title="Bohemians (tribe)">Čechové</a></b></i>), tribal confederation, in <a href="/wiki/Bohemia" title="Bohemia">Bohemia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Czech_Republic" title="Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a>. Ancestors of <a href="/wiki/Czechs" title="Czechs">Czechs</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Berunzani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Berunzani (page does not exist)">Berunzani</a> (a Slavic Bohemian tribe, <i><a href="/wiki/Bohemians_(tribe)" title="Bohemians (tribe)">Chekhove</a></i>, of West Bohemia)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bohemians_(tribe)" title="Bohemians (tribe)">Chekhove</a> proper / <i><a href="/wiki/%C4%8Cechov%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Čechové">Čechové</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Bohemians_(tribe)" title="Bohemians (tribe)">Bohemian Slavs</a> proper), also known as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pragani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pragani (page does not exist)">Pragani</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Bohemians_(tribe)" title="Bohemians (tribe)">Fraganeo</a></i>), the tribe that lived in the <a href="/wiki/Prague" title="Prague">Prague</a> and <a href="/wiki/Central_Bohemian_Region" title="Central Bohemian Region">Central Bohemian</a> regions</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%C4%9B%C4%8Dan%C3%A9_(Slavic_tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Děčané (Slavic tribe)">Děčané</a>, in <a href="/wiki/D%C4%9B%C4%8D%C3%ADn" title="Děčín">Děčín</a> region, Czech Republic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dulebes" title="Dulebes">Dudlebi</a> (<i>Doudlebi / Doudlebové</i>) (Bohemian <a href="/wiki/Dulebes" title="Dulebes">Dulebes</a>), a group of Dulebes assimilated as a <a href="/wiki/Bohemians_(tribe)" title="Bohemians (tribe)">Slavic Bohemian</a> or <a href="/wiki/Bohemians_(tribe)" title="Bohemians (tribe)">Czech</a> tribe. (they lived in most of the southern half of <a href="/wiki/Bohemia" title="Bohemia">Bohemia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kh%C3%A9ban%C3%A9&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Khébané (page does not exist)">Khébané</a> (<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ch%C3%A9ban%C3%A9&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chébané (page does not exist)">Chébané</a></i> / <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hban%C3%A9&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hbané (page does not exist)">Hbané</a></i>)</li> <li>Khodove (<i><a href="/wiki/Chodov%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Chodové">Chodové</a></i>) ("Walkers", "Patrollers" or "Rangers") (formed from recruited people originating in the western <a href="/wiki/Carpathian_Mountains" title="Carpathian Mountains">Carpathian Mountains</a>) (in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuho%C5%A1t%27&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tuhošt' (page does not exist)">Tuhošt'</a> Land)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litom%C4%9B%C5%99ici" class="mw-redirect" title="Litoměřici">Litoměřici</a> or Lutomerizi, in the <a href="/wiki/Czech_lands" title="Czech lands">Czech lands</a> from the sixth century (they lived in the <a href="/wiki/Litom%C4%9B%C5%99ice" title="Litoměřice">Litoměřice</a> region)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Luchane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Luchane (page does not exist)">Luchane</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Luchani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Luchani (page does not exist)">Luchani</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lutsane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lutsane (page does not exist)">Lutsane</a> (<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lu%C4%8Dan%C3%A9&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lučané (page does not exist)">Lučané</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lemuzi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lemuzi (page does not exist)">Lemuzi</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lupiglai&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lupiglai (page does not exist)">Lupiglai</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pshovane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pshovane (page does not exist)">Pshovane</a> (<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=P%C5%A1ovan%C3%A9&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pšované (page does not exist)">Pšované</a></i>) / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Besunzane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Besunzane (page does not exist)">Besunzane</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Be%C5%BEun%C4%8Dani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bežunčani (page does not exist)">Bežunčani</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sedlichane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sedlichane (page does not exist)">Sedlichane</a> (<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sedli%C4%8Dan%C3%A9&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sedličané (page does not exist)">Sedličané</a></i> / <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sedl%C4%8Dan%C3%A9&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sedlčané (page does not exist)">Sedlčané</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Volynyane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Volynyane (page does not exist)">Volynyane</a>, a group of <a href="/wiki/Volhynians" title="Volhynians">Volhynians</a> (<a href="/wiki/Volhynians" title="Volhynians">Volhynian Buzhans</a>) assimilated as a <a href="/wiki/Bohemians_(tribe)" title="Bohemians (tribe)">Slavic Bohemian</a> or <a href="/wiki/Bohemians_(tribe)" title="Bohemians (tribe)">Czech</a> tribe. Volhynians are ancestors of Poles, Czechs and modern day Ukrainians.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zlicans" title="Zlicans">Zlicans</a> (Zlitsans) / Zlichane (<i>Zličané</i>), in Bohemia (Czech). Ancestors of Czechs and possibly Poles.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Croats" title="White Croats">White Croats</a>, in Northeastern Bohemia and Southern Poland by the 10th century, ancestors of Czechs, Slovaks, Poles and Croats</li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Moravians_(tribe)" title="Moravians (tribe)">Moravians</a></b> / <b><a href="/wiki/Merehani" title="Merehani">Northern Merehani</a></b> (<i><b><a href="/wiki/Moravians_(tribe)" title="Moravians (tribe)">Moravane</a></b></i>), tribal confederation, in <a href="/wiki/Z%C3%A1horie" title="Záhorie">Záhorie</a> (<a href="/wiki/Slovakia" title="Slovakia">Slovakia</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Moravia" title="Moravia">Moravia</a>. Ancestors of (modern) <a href="/wiki/Moravians" title="Moravians">Moravians</a> and part of the <a href="/wiki/Slovaks" title="Slovaks">Slovaks</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Morava_River_(Central_Europe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Morava River (Central Europe)">Morava</a> river of <a href="/wiki/Moravia" title="Moravia">Moravia</a> was in their lands. Ancestors of the <a href="/wiki/Merehani" title="Merehani">South Moravians</a> (<a href="/wiki/Merehani" title="Merehani">Merehani</a>), in <a href="/wiki/Morava_River_(Serbia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Morava River (Serbia)">Morava river</a> valley, east <a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia">Serbia</a>, that migrated south of the Danube and were assimilated by <a href="/wiki/South_Slavs" title="South Slavs">South Slavs</a>. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gan%C3%A1tsi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ganátsi (page does not exist)">Ganátsi</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Han%C3%A1tsi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hanátsi (page does not exist)">Hanátsi</a> (<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Han%C3%A1ci&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hanáci (page does not exist)">Hanáci</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Golasitsi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Golasitsi (page does not exist)">Golasitsi</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Holasitsi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Holasitsi (page does not exist)">Holasitsi</a> (<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holasici&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Holasici (page does not exist)">Holasici</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gor%C3%A1tsi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gorátsi (page does not exist)">Gorátsi</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hor%C3%A1tsi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Horátsi (page does not exist)">Horátsi</a> (<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hor%C3%A1ci&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Horáci (page does not exist)">Horáci</a></i>)</li> <li>(<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Podyj%C5%A1t%C3%AD_Moravan%C3%A9&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Podyjští Moravané (page does not exist)">Podyjští Moravané</a></i>)</li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Slovaks" title="Slovaks">Slovaks</a>*</b> (more appropriately <b><a href="/wiki/Slovaks" title="Slovaks">Sloveni</a></b><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for time period of this article), also called <b><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Nitra" title="Principality of Nitra">Nitran Slavs</a> / Váh Slavs / Hungarian Slavs / Moravian</b> <i><b><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Nitra" title="Principality of Nitra">Slovenes</a></b></i><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><b>/</b></i> <b>Sloväni / Slověniny</b>), tribal confederation, in <a href="/wiki/Slovakia" title="Slovakia">Slovakia</a> and northern parts of <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a>, possibly western Hungary as well. Ancestors of <a href="/wiki/Slovaks" title="Slovaks">Slovaks</a>, mayhaps were part of broader Slavic group sharing the same name (notice similarities with the south Slavic <a href="/wiki/Slovenes" title="Slovenes">Slovenians</a>). Sometimes referred to as <i>Slovieni</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although this word is generally incorrect, being a contracted term from 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <b>Note:</b> While today the male member of Slovak nation is called <i>Slovák</i>, the original name for such person would be approx. <i>Sloven</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is evident from the endonym of the country (<i>Slovensko</i>), and also the name for Slovak female (<i>Slovenka</i>) or language (<i>slovenský jazyk</i>). This change, purely linguistical, occurred starting in 14th century, applying the newer suffix <i>-ák/-ak/-iak</i> to the stem word <i>Slov</i>. This change most likely originated in neighbouring Bohemia, which is probably the reason why it never completely permeated <a href="/wiki/Slovak_language" title="Slovak language">Slovak language</a> (compared to the <a href="/wiki/Moravia" title="Moravia">Moravian</a> region of <a href="/wiki/Moravian_Slovakia" title="Moravian Slovakia">Slovácko</a>, so called <a href="/wiki/Moravian_Slovakia" title="Moravian Slovakia">Moravian Slovakia</a>).</li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Lechites" title="Lechites">Lechites</a></b> (<b>Lechitic group</b>) Lechitic tribes are ancestors of Poles/Polish people, Lechia was the pre-Christian name of Poland. <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Polish_tribes" title="Polish tribes">Polish tribes</a></b>- also known as Lechitic tribes. <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Lendians" title="Lendians">Lendians</a></b>, in east Lesser Poland and Red Ruthenia (Poland and Ukraine). Ancestors of <a href="/wiki/Polish_people" title="Polish people">Poles</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Masovians" title="Masovians">Masovians</a></b>, tribal confederation, in Mazovia, Poland. Ancestors of Poles</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Polans_(western)" title="Polans (western)">Polans (western)</a></b>, tribal confederation, in <a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland" title="Greater Poland">Greater Poland</a>, Poland. Ancestors of Poles.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Silesians_(tribe)" title="Silesians (tribe)">Silesians</a></b> / <b><a href="/wiki/Silesians_(tribe)" title="Silesians (tribe)">Silezane</a></b> / <b><a href="/wiki/Silesians_(tribe)" title="Silesians (tribe)">Slezane</a></b> (Ślężanie) Lechitic tribe, Poland. Ancestors of Poles. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Besunzane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Besunzane (page does not exist)">Besunzane</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bezunchane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bezunchane (page does not exist)">Bezunchane</a> (<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bie%C5%BCu%C5%84czanie&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bieżuńczanie (page does not exist)">Bieżuńczanie</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bobryane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bobryane (page does not exist)">Bobryane</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Bobrzanie" class="mw-redirect" title="Bobrzanie">Bobrzanie</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dyedoshane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dyedoshane (page does not exist)">Dyedoshane</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Dziadoszanie" class="mw-redirect" title="Dziadoszanie">Dziadoszanie</a></i>) / <a href="/wiki/Dadosesani" title="Dadosesani">Dadosesani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golensizi" title="Golensizi">Golensizi</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Gol%C4%99szyce" class="mw-redirect" title="Golęszyce">Golęszyce</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lubushane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lubushane (page does not exist)">Lubushane</a> (<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lubuszanie&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lubuszanie (page does not exist)">Lubuszanie</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lupiglaa_(tribe)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lupiglaa (tribe) (page does not exist)">Lupiglaa</a> (in today's <a href="/wiki/G%C5%82ubczyce" title="Głubczyce">Głubczyce</a> region)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opolans" title="Opolans">Opolans</a> / <a href="/wiki/Opolini" class="mw-redirect" title="Opolini">Opolini</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Opolans" title="Opolans">Opolanie</a></i> Lechitic tribe</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silesians_(tribe)" title="Silesians (tribe)">Silesians Slezane</a>/(<i><a href="/wiki/%C5%9Al%C4%99%C5%BCanie" class="mw-redirect" title="Ślężanie">Ślężanie</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tryebovane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tryebovane (page does not exist)">Tryebovane</a> (<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Trzebowianie&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Trzebowianie (page does not exist)">Trzebowianie</a></i>)</li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Vistulans" title="Vistulans">Vistulans</a></b>, in <a href="/wiki/Lesser_Poland" title="Lesser Poland">Lesser Poland</a>, tribal confederation, Poland. Ancestors of Poles. Likely the same people as the White Croats.</li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Pomeranians_(Slavic_tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pomeranians (Slavic tribe)">Pomeranians</a></b>, tribal confederation, in <a href="/wiki/Pomerania" title="Pomerania">Pomerania</a>, Lechitic tribes living at the Baltic Sea regions. Ancestors of <a href="/wiki/Poles_(people)" class="mw-redirect" title="Poles (people)">Poles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kashubians" title="Kashubians">Kashubians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Slovincians" title="Slovincians">Slovincians</a>, modern-day Germans. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Goplans" title="Goplans">Goplans</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Kuyavian-Pomeranian_Voivodeship" class="mw-redirect" title="Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship">Kuyavian-Pomeranian</a>, Poland. Ancestors of <a href="/wiki/Polish_people" title="Polish people">Poles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kashubians" title="Kashubians">Kashubians</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Pomeranian_Voivodeship" title="Pomeranian Voivodeship">Pomeranian Voivodeship</a>, Poland</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prissani" title="Prissani">Prissani</a> / <a href="/wiki/Prissani" title="Prissani">Pyritzans</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pyrzyczanie" class="mw-redirect" title="Pyrzyczanie">Pyrzyczanie</a>), in Pomerania, Poland. Ancestors of Poles</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovincians" title="Slovincians">Slovincians</a>, a West Slavic tribe that lived between lakes <a href="/wiki/Gardno" class="mw-redirect" title="Gardno">Gardno</a> and <a href="/wiki/%C5%81ebsko" class="mw-redirect" title="Łebsko">Łebsko</a> near <a href="/wiki/S%C5%82upsk" title="Słupsk">Słupsk</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pomerania" title="Pomerania">Pomerania</a>, ancestors of Poles.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolinians" title="Wolinians">Wolinians</a> / <a href="/wiki/Uelunzani" class="mw-redirect" title="Uelunzani">Uelunzani</a>, on <a href="/wiki/Wolin" title="Wolin">Wolin</a> island, Pomerania, Poland. Ancestors of Poles</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wends" title="Wends">Wends</a> also spelled as Wenedi, Veneti, Vendi, Vindi, Vinden, includes Northern Polabian and Southern Polabian tribes. The former are linguistically grouped with Lechitic, while the latter with Sorbian languages. <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Veleti" title="Veleti">Veleti</a></b> (<b><a href="/wiki/Wilzi" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilzi">Wilzi</a></b>) (<a href="/wiki/Polabians" class="mw-redirect" title="Polabians">Northern Polabians</a>), tribes in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, modern-day Germany. <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Lutici" title="Lutici">Lutici</a></b>, Lechitic tribal confederation, northeastern region of modern-day Germany. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bethenici" title="Bethenici">Bethenici</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bethenici" title="Bethenici">Bethenzi</a> or <a href="/wiki/Bethenici" title="Bethenici">Bechelenzi</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Doshane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Doshane (page does not exist)">Doshane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lutici" title="Lutici">Lutici</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Circipania" title="Circipania">Circipane</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" title="Mecklenburg-Vorpommern">Mecklenburg-Vorpommern</a>, modrn-day Germany.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kessinians" title="Kessinians">Kessinians</a>, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redarians" class="mw-redirect" title="Redarians">Redarians</a>, ncstrors of Poles</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tollensians" title="Tollensians">Tollensians</a>, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, ancestors of Poles and some Germans</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hevelli" title="Hevelli">Hevelli</a> (Havolane), in <a href="/wiki/Brandenburg" title="Brandenburg">Brandenburg</a>, by river <a href="/wiki/Havel" title="Havel">Havel</a>, anctstors of Poles, Swiss and some Germans <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Smeldingi" title="Smeldingi">Smeldingi</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morizani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Morizani (page does not exist)">Morizani</a> / Morichane</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rani_(Slavic_tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rani (Slavic tribe)">Rani</a> / <a href="/wiki/Rani_(Slavic_tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rani (Slavic tribe)">Rujani</a>, on Lechitic tribes on Rugia/Rügen island.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sprevane" title="Sprevane">Sprevane</a>, by river Spree.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stodorane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stodorane (page does not exist)">Stodorane</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lutici_Stodorane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lutici Stodorane (page does not exist)">Lutici Stodorane</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrani" title="Ukrani">Ukrani</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Uckermark" title="Uckermark">Uckermark</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vorpommern-Greifswald" title="Vorpommern-Greifswald">Vorpommern-Greifswald</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Obotrites" title="Obotrites">Obotrites</a></b> / <b><a href="/wiki/Obotrites" title="Obotrites">Reragi</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/Polabians" class="mw-redirect" title="Polabians">Northern Polabians</a>) <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belesem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Belesem (page does not exist)">Belesem</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Byelozem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Byelozem (page does not exist)">Byelozem</a> = "White Earth" or "White Earth Tribe", they lived scattered in Oster Walde / <a href="/wiki/Osterwalde" title="Osterwalde">Osterwalde</a> - "Eastern Woods" in the Old Mainland <a href="/wiki/Saxons" title="Saxons">Saxon</a> view, west banks of the <a href="/wiki/Elbe" title="Elbe">Elbe</a> river</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drevani" title="Drevani">Drevani</a> = "Wood" or "Wood Tribe", they lived scattered in Oster Walde / <a href="/wiki/Osterwalde" title="Osterwalde">Osterwalde</a> - "Eastern Woods" in the Old Mainland <a href="/wiki/Saxons" title="Saxons">Saxon</a> view, west banks of the Elbe river) (<a href="/wiki/Osterwalde" title="Osterwalde">Osterwalde</a> and <a href="/wiki/Luneburg_Heath" class="mw-redirect" title="Luneburg Heath">Luneburg Heath</a> also matched the land where the <a href="/wiki/Langobards" class="mw-redirect" title="Langobards">Langobards</a> lived for a time before migrating towards South) (mostly in today's <a href="/wiki/Lower_Saxony" title="Lower Saxony">Lower Saxony</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Hanoverian_Wendland" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanoverian Wendland">Hanoverian Wendland</a>, Lechitic tribes in modern -day Germany)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linones" title="Linones">Linones</a>, in the region around <a href="/wiki/Lenzen_(Elbe)" title="Lenzen (Elbe)">Lenzen</a>.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lipani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lipani (page does not exist)">Lipani</a>, tribe that lived scattered in the west banks of the Elbe river</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obotrites" title="Obotrites">Obotrites</a> proper / <a href="/wiki/Obotrites" title="Obotrites">Northern Obotrites</a> (<a href="/wiki/Wismar_Bay" class="mw-redirect" title="Wismar Bay">Wismar Bay</a> to <a href="/wiki/Lake_Schwerin" title="Lake Schwerin">Lake Schwerin</a>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polabians_(tribe)" title="Polabians (tribe)">Polabians</a> proper, in modern-day eastern <a href="/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein" title="Schleswig-Holstein">Schleswig-Holstein</a> area.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Travjane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Travjane (page does not exist)">Travjane</a> east of the <a href="/wiki/Trave" title="Trave">Trave</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wagri" title="Wagri">Wagri</a> / <a href="/wiki/Wagrians" class="mw-redirect" title="Wagrians">Wagrians</a> (the eastern <a href="/wiki/Holstein" title="Holstein">Holstein</a> as part of <a href="/wiki/Old_Saxony" title="Old Saxony">Saxony</a>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warnabi" title="Warnabi">Warnabi</a> / <a href="/wiki/Warnower" class="mw-redirect" title="Warnower">Warnower</a> in (the upper <a href="/wiki/Warnow" title="Warnow">Warnow</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mildenitz_(river)" title="Mildenitz (river)">Mildenitz</a>).</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Polabian_Slavs" title="Polabian Slavs">Southern Polabians</a></b> tribes in <a href="/wiki/Saxony" title="Saxony">Saxony</a> (<a href="/wiki/Lusatia" title="Lusatia">Lusatia</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Thuringia" title="Thuringia">Thuringia</a>. <ul><li><ul><li>Sorbian tribal confederation in the narrow sense <ul><li>Proper <b><a href="/wiki/Sorbs_(tribe)" title="Sorbs (tribe)">Sorbs</a></b> / <b><a href="/wiki/White_Serbia" title="White Serbia">White Serbs</a></b></li> <li>Chutici-Chudzicy-Khutices</li> <li>Citici-Żytyce-Zhitices</li> <li>Colodici-Koledycze-Koledices</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glomatians" title="Glomatians">Glomacze-Daleminzi</a></li> <li>Neletici-Neletiches-Nieletycy-Nieletycze</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nishans" class="mw-redirect" title="Nishans">Nishans-Nishane</a></li> <li>Nizitsi-Niszanie-Nizchices</li> <li>Nudycze</li> <li>Plisny</li> <li>Siusler-Susłowie</li> <li>Szkudycze</li> <li>Zyrmunty-Yhirmunts</li></ul></li> <li>Sorbian tribal confederation in the wider sense <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lusatians_(tribe)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lusatians (tribe) (page does not exist)">Lusatians</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Lower_Lusatia" title="Lower Lusatia">Lower Lusatia</a>. Ancestors of <a href="/wiki/Sorbs" title="Sorbs">Sorbs</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lower_Lusatia" title="Lower Lusatia">Lower Lusatia</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milceni" title="Milceni">Milchane</a> (<i>Milčané</i>) / <a href="/wiki/Milceni" title="Milceni">Milceni</a> / <a href="/wiki/Milceni" title="Milceni">Milzeni</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Upper_Lusatia" title="Upper Lusatia">Upper Lusatia</a>, and in an area of far north <a href="/wiki/Bohemia" title="Bohemia">Bohemia</a>. Ancestors of <a href="/wiki/Sorbs" title="Sorbs">Sorbs</a> in <a href="/wiki/Upper_Lusatia" title="Upper Lusatia">Upper Lusatia</a>.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="South_Slavs">South Slavs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_early_Slavic_peoples&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: South Slavs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Early_medieval_South_Slavic_tribes.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Early_medieval_South_Slavic_tribes.png/220px-Early_medieval_South_Slavic_tribes.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="206" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Early_medieval_South_Slavic_tribes.png/330px-Early_medieval_South_Slavic_tribes.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Early_medieval_South_Slavic_tribes.png/440px-Early_medieval_South_Slavic_tribes.png 2x" data-file-width="580" data-file-height="543" /></a><figcaption>Approximate location of South Slavic tribes, per V. V. Sedov 1995.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/South_Slavs" title="South Slavs">South Slavic</a> tribes descend mainly from two Slavic tribal confederations, <a href="/wiki/Sclaveni" title="Sclaveni">Sclaveni</a> and <a href="/wiki/Antes_people" title="Antes people">Antes</a>. To reach the <a href="/wiki/Balkans" title="Balkans">Balkans</a>, the two groups took two different paths. While the Sclaveni came from <a href="/wiki/Central_Europe" title="Central Europe">Central Europe</a> north of the <a href="/wiki/Danube" title="Danube">Danube</a> and migrated south around the eastern edges of the <a href="/wiki/Alps" title="Alps">Alps</a> and across the western part of the <a href="/wiki/Pannonian_Plain" class="mw-redirect" title="Pannonian Plain">Pannonian Plain</a>, the Antes came from the steppe between the <a href="/wiki/Dniester" title="Dniester">Dniester</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Dnieper" title="Dnieper">Dnieper</a>, penetrating into the Balkans throuhgh <a href="/wiki/Transylvania" title="Transylvania">Transylvania</a> or, alternatively, the mouth of the <a href="/wiki/Danube" title="Danube">Danube</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A number of historians have attributed the early split between <a href="/wiki/Eastern_South_Slavic_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern South Slavic languages">Eastern</a> and <a href="/wiki/Western_South_Slavic_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Western South Slavic languages">Western South Slavs</a> to the different origins of Sclaveni and Antes.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While Western South Slavs were closely linked to the <a href="/wiki/West_Slavs" title="West Slavs">Western Slavic</a> <a href="/wiki/Veneti_(Slavs)" class="mw-redirect" title="Veneti (Slavs)">Veneti</a>, Eastern South Slavs originated from the <a href="/wiki/East_Slavs" title="East Slavs">Eastern Slavic</a> Antes. This is confirmed by both historical records and the duplication of tribal names between <a href="/wiki/West_Slavs" title="West Slavs">West Slavs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Western_South_Slavic_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Western South Slavic languages">Western South Slavs</a> and <a href="/wiki/East_Slavs" title="East Slavs">East Slavs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eastern_South_Slavic_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern South Slavic languages">Eastern South Slavs</a>, respectively. For example, the Polabian <a href="/wiki/White_Serbs" class="mw-redirect" title="White Serbs">White Serb</a> confederation is generally thought to be the ancestor of both Western Slavic <a href="/wiki/Sorbs" title="Sorbs">Sorbs</a> and South Slavic <a href="/wiki/Serbs" title="Serbs">Serbs</a>, while the Dunabian Abodriti, also known as <a href="/wiki/Praedenecenti" title="Praedenecenti">Praedenecenti</a>, are generally associated with the Polabian <a href="/wiki/Obotrites" title="Obotrites">Obotrites</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The same is true for Antes and Eastern South Slavs. For example, part of the East Slavic <a href="/wiki/Severians" title="Severians">Severians</a> are known to have migrated to present-day northeastern Bulgaria, becoming foederati of the <a href="/wiki/First_Bulgarian_Empire" title="First Bulgarian Empire">First Bulgarian Empire</a> under the name <i>Severi</i>, while some <a href="/wiki/Pripyat" title="Pripyat">Pripyat</a> <a href="/wiki/Dregoviches" title="Dregoviches">Dregoviches</a> are assumed to have migrated to the valley of the <a href="/wiki/Vardar" title="Vardar">Vardar</a>, establishing themselves as the <a href="/wiki/Drougoubitai" title="Drougoubitai">Drougoubitai</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Seven_Slavic_tribes" title="Seven Slavic tribes">Seven Slavic tribes</a> are also hypothesized to be Antes hailing from the lands of modern Ukraine, but missing records of their tribal names makes the hypothesis unverifiable. </p><p>Therefore, it has been suggested that the ancestors of medieval Bosnians, Serbs and Croatians were the <a href="/wiki/Sclaveni" title="Sclaveni">Sclaveni</a>, wereas the progenitors of the <a href="/wiki/First_Bulgarian_Empire" title="First Bulgarian Empire">Bulgarian</a> Slavs were the <a href="/wiki/Antes_(people)" class="mw-redirect" title="Antes (people)">Antes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, there must have been substantial overlap between Sclaveni and Antes, especially in contact zones. For example, the exact origin of <a href="/wiki/White_Croats" title="White Croats">White Croats</a> is still shrouded in mystery. Some scholars consider them be an Antes tribal polity that migrated to <a href="/wiki/Galicia_(Eastern_Europe)" title="Galicia (Eastern Europe)">Galicia</a> in the 3rd–4th century,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while others regard them as early <a href="/wiki/Sclaveni" title="Sclaveni">Sclaveni</a> or as a mixture of both Antes and Sclaveni.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nevertheless, South Slavs over time evolved into a new Slavic ethnolinguistic group. This phenomenon was accentuated by the <a href="/wiki/Bavarians" title="Bavarians">Bavarian</a> expansion east (as an element in the <a href="/wiki/Ostsiedlung" title="Ostsiedlung">Ostsiedlung</a>) and by the <a href="/wiki/Magyar_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Magyar people">Magyar</a> settlement and expansion in the <a href="/wiki/Pannonian_Plain" class="mw-redirect" title="Pannonian Plain">Pannonian Plain</a>, which severed the contiguous land or territory between West and South Slavs (in the Middle <a href="/wiki/Danube" title="Danube">Danube</a> river basin) and contact between both of them, contributing to greater differentiation. </p> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Sclaveni" title="Sclaveni">Sclaveni</a> / Slavini</b> (common ancestors of most Western <a href="/wiki/South_Slavs" title="South Slavs">South Slavs</a>) <ul><li><b>West South Slavic group</b> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Bo%C5%A1njani" title="Bošnjani">Bošnjani</a></b>, inhabited central parts of <a href="/wiki/Bosnia_(early_medieval)" title="Bosnia (early medieval)">early medieval Bosnia</a>, between the rivers of <a href="/wiki/Upper_Neretva" title="Upper Neretva">Upper Neretva</a> on the south, Middle <a href="/wiki/Bosna_(river)" title="Bosna (river)">Bosna</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Krivaja_(Bosna)" title="Krivaja (Bosna)">Krivaja (Bosna)</a> on the north, <a href="/wiki/Upper_Drina" class="mw-redirect" title="Upper Drina">Upper Drina</a> on the east and Upper <a href="/wiki/Vrbas_(river)" title="Vrbas (river)">Vrbas</a> on the west.<sup id="cite_ref-Vego-Postanak-1982-ch.Ime-p.20_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vego-Postanak-1982-ch.Ime-p.20-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ancestors of <a href="/wiki/Bosniaks" title="Bosniaks">Bosniaks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bosnians" title="Bosnians">Bosnians</a>. Theories of them being descended from the <a href="/wiki/Buzhans" title="Buzhans">Buzhans</a> exist.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brani%C4%8Devci" title="Braničevci">Braničevci</a> / Braniches, in eastern <a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia">Serbia</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Carantanians" title="Carantanians">Carantanians</a> / Carniolan Slavs / Old Slovenes / Southern <i>Slovene</i></b> (<i>Sloventsi</i>), tribal confederation, in Austria and Slovenia. Ancestors of <a href="/wiki/Slovenes" title="Slovenes">Slovenes</a> (particularly <a href="/wiki/Carinthian_Slovenes" title="Carinthian Slovenes">Carinthian Slovenes</a>). They descend in part from <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Nitra" title="Principality of Nitra">Nitran Slavs</a> (Northern Slovenes) that were also partial ancestors of modern <a href="/wiki/Slovaks" title="Slovaks">Slovaks</a>. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dudleipa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dudleipa (page does not exist)">Dudleipa</a> (may have been a branch of the <a href="/wiki/Dulebes" title="Dulebes">Dulebes</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Duliebi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Duliebi (page does not exist)">Duliebi</a> (may have been a branch of the Dulebes)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stodorane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stodorane (page does not exist)">Stodorane</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Caranthanian_Stodorane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Caranthanian Stodorane (page does not exist)">Caranthanian Stodorane</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Susili&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Susili (page does not exist)">Susili</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duklja" title="Duklja">Docleani</a> / Diokletlians, in southern <a href="/wiki/Montenegro" title="Montenegro">Montenegro</a> (see also <a href="/wiki/Tribes_of_Montenegro" title="Tribes of Montenegro">Tribes of Montenegro</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guduscani" title="Guduscani">Guduscani</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Lika" title="Lika">Lika</a>, <a href="/wiki/Croatia" title="Croatia">Croatia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanalites" title="Kanalites">Kanalites</a>, in southern <a href="/wiki/Dalmatia" title="Dalmatia">Dalmatia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merehani" title="Merehani">Merehani</a> / Southern Merehani / Southern Moravians (<i>Moravci / Moravtsi</i>), in (South) <a href="/wiki/Morava_River_(Serbia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Morava River (Serbia)">Morava</a> river, eastern Serbia. They descend from <a href="/wiki/Merehani" title="Merehani">Moravian</a> / <a href="/wiki/Merehani" title="Merehani">Merehani</a> tribal groups that migrated south of the Danube and over time differentiate themselves and were assimilated into South Slavs.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narentines" title="Narentines">Narentines</a> / <a href="/wiki/Neretvians" class="mw-redirect" title="Neretvians">Neretvians</a>, in southern <a href="/wiki/Dalmatia" title="Dalmatia">Dalmatia</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Pannonian_Slavs" class="mw-redirect" title="Pannonian Slavs">Pannonian Slavs</a></b>, in west <a href="/wiki/Pannonian_Plain" class="mw-redirect" title="Pannonian Plain">Pannonian Plain</a>, west of the <a href="/wiki/Danube" title="Danube">Danube</a> river, roughly in today's west Hungary. They were assimilated by <a href="/wiki/Magyars" class="mw-redirect" title="Magyars">Magyars</a> after they settled in Hungary. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dulebes" title="Dulebes">Pannonian Dulebes</a></li> <li>Sava Slavs, roughly in the plain between the <a href="/wiki/Sava_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Sava River">Sava</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mura_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Mura River">Mura</a> rivers. Ancestors of part of Croats.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Praedenecenti" title="Praedenecenti">Praedenecenti</a> / <a href="/wiki/Praedenecenti" title="Praedenecenti">Eastern Abodriti</a> / <a href="/wiki/Praedenecenti" title="Praedenecenti">Eastern Obotrites</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Banat" title="Banat">Banat</a>. They descend from <a href="/wiki/Abodriti" class="mw-redirect" title="Abodriti">Abodriti</a> / <a href="/wiki/Obotrites" title="Obotrites">Obotrites</a> tribal groups that migrated south of the Danube and over time differentiate themselves and were assimilated into South Slavs.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timo%C4%8Dani" title="Timočani">Timočani</a>, in eastern Serbia</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Travunia" title="Travunia">Travunians</a> / <a href="/wiki/Travunija" class="mw-redirect" title="Travunija">Terbunians</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Herzegovina" title="Herzegovina">Herzegovina</a> and western <a href="/wiki/Montenegro" title="Montenegro">Montenegro</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/White_Croats" title="White Croats">White Croats</a></b>, in <a href="/wiki/Western_Ukraine" title="Western Ukraine">Western Ukraine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lesser_Poland" title="Lesser Poland">Lesser Poland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bohemia" title="Bohemia">Bohemia</a>, ancestors of Croats <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Croats" title="Croats">Croats</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/White_Serbs" class="mw-redirect" title="White Serbs">White Serbs</a></b> / <a href="/wiki/Sorbs_(tribe)" title="Sorbs (tribe)">Sorbs</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Lower_Lusatia" title="Lower Lusatia">Lower Lusatia</a>, Germany. Ancestors of <a href="/wiki/Sorbs" title="Sorbs">Sorbs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Serbs" title="Serbs">Serbs</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Serbs" title="Serbs">Serbs</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zachumlia" class="mw-redirect" title="Zachumlia">Zachumliani</a> / <a href="/wiki/Zachlumians" class="mw-redirect" title="Zachlumians">Zachlumians</a>, in southern <a href="/wiki/Dalmatia" title="Dalmatia">Dalmatia</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Antes_(people)" class="mw-redirect" title="Antes (people)">Antes</a></b> (common ancestors of most Eastern <a href="/wiki/South_Slavs" title="South Slavs">South Slavs</a>) <ul><li><b>East South Slavic group</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Berziti" title="Berziti">Berziti</a> / <a href="/wiki/Berziti" title="Berziti">Bersites</a>, in Ohrid, <a href="/wiki/North_Macedonia" title="North Macedonia">North Macedonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drougoubitai" title="Drougoubitai">Drougoubitai</a> / <a href="/wiki/Draguvites" class="mw-redirect" title="Draguvites">Draguvites</a>, in <a href="/wiki/North_Macedonia" title="North Macedonia">North Macedonia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greek_Macedonia" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek Macedonia">Greek Macedonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moratsi" title="Moratsi">Moratsi</a>, or Marvatsi, in the western <a href="/wiki/Rhodopes" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhodopes">Rhodopes</a>, along the <a href="/wiki/Mesta" title="Mesta">Mesta</a> river and around <a href="/wiki/Dospat" title="Dospat">Dospat</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Milcovci&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Milcovci (page does not exist)">Milcovci</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Miltsovtsi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Miltsovtsi (page does not exist)">Miltsovtsi</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Seven_Slavic_tribes" title="Seven Slavic tribes">Seven Slavic tribes</a></b> (or <a href="/wiki/Seven_Slavic_tribes" title="Seven Slavic tribes">Seven Slavic Clans</a>) (Heptaradici / Eptaradici - "Seven Roots"?), tribal confederation, in northern Bulgaria and Southern Romania that formed the basis of the <a href="/wiki/Bulgarians" title="Bulgarians">Slavic Bulgarians</a> (after later being conquered by the Turkic origin <a href="/wiki/Bulgars" title="Bulgars">Bulgars</a> that formed much of the <a href="/wiki/Aristocracy" title="Aristocracy">Aristocracy</a> and led to the name change of the people and language) <ul><li>Unknown tribes (unknown names)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Severians" title="Severians">Severians</a>, in Dobrudja, / <a href="/wiki/Severians" title="Severians">Severes</a> / <a href="/wiki/Severians" title="Severians">Severi</a> (Balkan <a href="/wiki/Severians" title="Severians">Severians</a>), northeast Bulgaria and Southeastern Romania, the <a href="/wiki/Severians" title="Severians">Severians</a> were an <a href="/wiki/East_Slavs" title="East Slavs">East Slavic</a> tribe, part of the tribal groups that migrated southward and southwestward and formed a union with the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Slavic_tribes" title="Seven Slavic tribes">Seven Slavic tribes</a> (to form the <a href="/wiki/Bulgarians" title="Bulgarians">Slavic Bulgarians</a>) and over time differentiate themselves and were assimilated into <a href="/wiki/South_Slavs" title="South Slavs">South Slavs</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smolyani" title="Smolyani">Smolyani</a>, in the Central and Western <a href="/wiki/Rhodopes" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhodopes">Rhodopes</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Mesta" title="Mesta">Mesta</a> valley and the adjoining areas of northern <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a>. They revolted against Byzantine rule in 837 and after receiving military aid by Khan <a href="/wiki/Presian_I_of_Bulgaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Presian I of Bulgaria">Presian I of Bulgaria</a>, their territory was annexed by the <a href="/wiki/First_Bulgarian_Empire" title="First Bulgarian Empire">First Bulgarian Empire</a>. Their name is not mentioned after the mid 800s, which suggests assimilation into Slavic Bulgarians</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strymonites" title="Strymonites">Strymonites</a>, along the <a href="/wiki/Struma_(river)" title="Struma (river)">Struma</a> river in southwestern <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a> and the adjoining part of northern <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a>. Annexed by the <a href="/wiki/First_Bulgarian_Empire" title="First Bulgarian Empire">First Bulgarian Empire</a> in 840. They were last mentioned in 904 in connection with the <a href="/wiki/Sack_of_Thessalonica_(904)" title="Sack of Thessalonica (904)">Sack of Thessaloniki</a> by the Arabs and were therefore most likely assimilated into Slavic Bulgarians</li> <li><b>Sklavenoi</b> / <b><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sclaveni_Proper&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sclaveni Proper (page does not exist)">Sclaveni Proper</a></b> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slavic_tribes_of_Greece&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Slavic tribes of Greece (page does not exist)">Slavic tribes of Greece</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Greek_Macedonia" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek Macedonia">Greek Macedonia</a>) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baiounitai" title="Baiounitai">Baiounitai</a> / <a href="/wiki/Baiounitai" title="Baiounitai">Bainuites</a> / <a href="/wiki/Vajunites" class="mw-redirect" title="Vajunites">Vajunites</a>, originally in <a href="/wiki/Greek_Macedonia" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek Macedonia">Macedonia</a>, later migrated to <a href="/wiki/Epirus" title="Epirus">Epirus</a>/South Albania (<a href="/wiki/Vagenetia" title="Vagenetia">Vagenetia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belegezites" title="Belegezites">Belegezites</a> / <a href="/wiki/Belegezites" title="Belegezites">Velegezites</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Thessaly" title="Thessaly">Thessaly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ezerites" class="mw-redirect" title="Ezerites">Ezerites</a> / <a href="/wiki/Eremites" class="mw-redirect" title="Eremites">Erezitai</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Peloponnese" title="Peloponnese">Peloponnese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melingoi" title="Melingoi">Melingoi</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Peloponnese" title="Peloponnese">Peloponnese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rynchines" class="mw-redirect" title="Rynchines">Rynchines</a> / <a href="/wiki/Rhynchinoi" title="Rhynchinoi">Rhynchinoi</a>, also <a href="/wiki/Rynchines" class="mw-redirect" title="Rynchines">Recchines</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Greek_Macedonia" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek Macedonia">Greek Macedonia</a> (Southern Macedonia), Northern <a href="/wiki/Chalkidiki" title="Chalkidiki">Chalkidiki</a> and southern slopes of the <a href="/wiki/Rhodopes" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhodopes">Rhodopes</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sagudates" title="Sagudates">Sagudates</a>, in southern <a href="/wiki/Greek_Macedonia" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek Macedonia">Greek Macedonia</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Unclassified_Slavs">Unclassified Slavs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_early_Slavic_peoples&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Unclassified Slavs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sittici&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sittici (page does not exist)">Sittici</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Zhytychi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zhytychi (page does not exist)">Zhytychi</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Zuireani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zuireani (page does not exist)">Zuireani</a>?<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zeriuani" title="Zeriuani">Zerivani</a> / <a href="/wiki/Zeriuani" title="Zeriuani">Zeriuani</a> / <a href="/wiki/Zeriuani" title="Zeriuani">Zeruiani</a><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Znetalici" title="Znetalici">Znetalici</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Possible_Slavs">Possible Slavs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_early_Slavic_peoples&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Possible Slavs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Unclassified">Unclassified</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_early_Slavic_peoples&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Unclassified"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Miloxi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Miloxi (page does not exist)">Miloxi</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uerizane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Uerizane (page does not exist)">Uerizane</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Verizane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Verizane (page does not exist)">Verizane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brodnici" title="Brodnici">Brodnici</a>, Slavic tribe, inhibiting brod/shallow river areas or areas with brodnica shrubs, type of a wild berry, see place names Brodnica, Bródnica in Slavic speaking countries.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Slavs_or_Balts">Slavs or Balts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_early_Slavic_peoples&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Slavs or Balts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Neuri" title="Neuri">Neuri</a></b> / <b><a href="/wiki/Neuri" title="Neuri">Navari</a></b> (a people mentioned by <a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Slavs,_Balts_or_Uralics"><span id="Slavs.2C_Balts_or_Uralics"></span>Slavs, Balts or Uralics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_early_Slavic_peoples&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Slavs, Balts or Uralics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Budini" title="Budini">Budini</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Slavs_or_Romance_peoples">Slavs or Romance peoples</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_early_Slavic_peoples&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Slavs or Romance peoples"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bolokhovians" title="Bolokhovians">Bolokhovians</a> / <a href="/wiki/Bolokhoveni" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolokhoveni">Bolokhoveni</a> / <a href="/wiki/Bolokhovens" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolokhovens">Bolokhovens</a> (<a href="/wiki/East_Slavs" title="East Slavs">East Slavic</a> tribe or <a href="/wiki/Vlachs" title="Vlachs">Valachians</a>? the similar name to Valachians could have been only coincidental)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Slavs_or_Turkics">Slavs or Turkics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_early_Slavic_peoples&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Slavs or Turkics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sebbirozi" title="Sebbirozi">Sebbirozi</a> / <a href="/wiki/Sebbirozi" title="Sebbirozi">Zabirozi</a> / <a href="/wiki/Zabrozi" title="Zabrozi">Zabrozi</a> / <a href="/wiki/Sabirs" class="mw-redirect" title="Sabirs">Sabirs</a> (possibly <a href="/wiki/Turkic_peoples" title="Turkic peoples">Turkic</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mixed">Mixed</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_early_Slavic_peoples&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Mixed"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Keramisians" class="mw-redirect" title="Keramisians">Keramisians</a> or, more likely, <b>Sermesianoi</b>, a mixed population of some 70,000 <a href="/wiki/Bulgars" title="Bulgars">Bulgars</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pannonian_Slavs" class="mw-redirect" title="Pannonian Slavs">Pannonian Slavs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy" title="Eastern Orthodoxy">Byzantine Christians</a> from <a href="/wiki/Syrmia" title="Syrmia">Syrmia</a> led by the <a href="/wiki/Bulgars" title="Bulgars">Bulgar</a> (khan) <a href="/wiki/Kuber" title="Kuber">Kuber</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who unsuccessfully tried to seize <a href="/wiki/Thessaloniki" title="Thessaloniki">Thessaloniki</a> and then settled in the <i>Keramisian field</i> (a corruption of "Sermesian", i.e., of Sirmium), most likely the <a href="/wiki/Pelagonia" title="Pelagonia">Pelagonia</a> plain in North Macedonia, in 680. Since treasures attributed to them have been found at <a href="/wiki/Vrap" title="Vrap">Vrap</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ersek%C3%AB" title="Ersekë">Ersekë</a> in Eastern Albania,<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Sermesianoi are hypothesized to have migrated west following Byzantine emperor <a href="/wiki/Leo_III_the_Isaurian" title="Leo III the Isaurian">Leo III the Isaurian</a>'s campaigns against them in the early 700s.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Unclassified_peoples_or_tribes">Unclassified peoples or tribes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_early_Slavic_peoples&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Unclassified peoples or tribes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mentioned by <a href="/wiki/Bavarian_Geographer" title="Bavarian Geographer">Bavarian Geographer</a> and possibly <a href="/wiki/Baltic_peoles" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltic peoles">Baltic</a> Indo-European </p> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thafnezi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thafnezi (page does not exist)">Thafnezi</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Athfenzi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Athfenzi (page does not exist)">Athfenzi</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=(Y)athfengi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="(Y)athfengi (page does not exist)">(Y)athfengi</a>? (possibly <a href="/wiki/Yatvingians" class="mw-redirect" title="Yatvingians">Yatvingians</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Mentioned by Bavarian Geographer and possibly <a href="/wiki/Iranian_peoples" title="Iranian peoples">Iranian</a> Indo-European </p> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lucolane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lucolane (page does not exist)">Lucolane</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lucolani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lucolani (page does not exist)">Lucolani</a> (possibly <a href="/wiki/Alans" title="Alans">Alan</a> <a href="/wiki/Sarmatians" title="Sarmatians">Sarmatian</a> <a href="/wiki/Iranian_peoples" title="Iranian peoples">Iranians</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Serauici&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Serauici (page does not exist)">Serauici</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Seravici&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Seravici (page does not exist)">Seravici</a> (possibly <a href="/wiki/Alans" title="Alans">Alan</a> <a href="/wiki/Sarmatians" title="Sarmatians">Sarmatian</a> <a href="/wiki/Iranian_peoples" title="Iranian peoples">Iranians</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Mentioned by <a href="/wiki/Bavarian_Geographer" title="Bavarian Geographer">Bavarian Geographer</a> and possibly <a href="/wiki/Turkic_peoples" title="Turkic peoples">Turkic</a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Attorozi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Attorozi (page does not exist)">Attorozi</a> (possibly <a href="/wiki/Turkic_peoples" title="Turkic peoples">Turkic</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aturezani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aturezani (page does not exist)">Aturezani</a> (possibly <a href="/wiki/Turkic_peoples" title="Turkic peoples">Turkic</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chozirozi" class="mw-redirect" title="Chozirozi">Chozirozi</a> / <a href="/wiki/Khazars" title="Khazars">Caziri</a> (possibly the <a href="/wiki/Khazars" title="Khazars">Khazars</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uuilerozi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Uuilerozi (page does not exist)">Uuilerozi</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Vilerozi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vilerozi (page does not exist)">Vilerozi</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bilerozi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bilerozi (page does not exist)">Bilerozi</a> (possibly <a href="/wiki/Turkic_peoples" title="Turkic peoples">Turkic</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Mentioned by <a href="/wiki/Bavarian_Geographer" title="Bavarian Geographer">Bavarian Geographer</a> and possibly <a href="/wiki/Uralic_languages" title="Uralic languages">Uralic</a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Neriuani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Neriuani (page does not exist)">Neriuani</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nerivani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nerivani (page does not exist)">Nerivani</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Merivani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Merivani (page does not exist)">Merivani</a> (possibly <a href="/wiki/Uralic_languages" title="Uralic languages">Uralic</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Merya_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Merya people">Merya</a>?)<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Mentioned by <a href="/wiki/Bavarian_Geographer" title="Bavarian Geographer">Bavarian Geographer</a> and Unknown </p> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thadesi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thadesi (page does not exist)">Thadesi</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_early_Slavic_peoples&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Slavic_peoples" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavic peoples">Slavic peoples</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavic_languages" title="Slavic languages">Slavic languages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethnic_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnic group">Ethnic group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tribe" title="Tribe">Tribe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_Slavic_history_and_culture" title="Outline of Slavic history and culture">Outline of Slavic history and culture</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_early_Slavic_peoples&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Adams, Douglas Q. (1997). <i>Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture</i>. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-884964-98-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-884964-98-5">978-1-884964-98-5</a></li> <li>Barford, Paul M (2001), <i>The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe</i>, Cornell University Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8014-3977-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-8014-3977-9">0-8014-3977-9</a></li> <li>Gimbutas, Marija Alseikaitė (1971), <i>The Slavs</i>, Thames and Hudson, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-500-02072-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-500-02072-8">0-500-02072-8</a></li> <li>Koncha, S. (2012). <i>Bavarian Geographer On Slavic Tribes From Ukraine</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://ukrbulletin.univ.kiev.ua/Visnyk-16-en/Koncha.pdf">http://ukrbulletin.univ.kiev.ua/Visnyk-16-en/Koncha.pdf</a> Ukrainian Studies. 12. Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. pp. 15–21.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_early_Slavic_peoples&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAnthony2010" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/David_W._Anthony" title="David W. Anthony">Anthony, David W.</a> (26 July 2010) [2007]. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=0FDqf415wqgC"><i>The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World</i></a>. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 368, 380. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781400831104" title="Special:BookSources/9781400831104"><bdi>9781400831104</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 October</span> 2024</span>. <q>[...] most discussions of Germanic, Baltic, or Slavic origins look back to the Corded Ware horizon. [...] The Yamnaya and Corded Ware horizons bordered each other in the hills between Lvov and Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine, in the upper Dniester piedmont around 2800-2600 BCE [...]. [...] Slavic and Baltic probably evolved from dialects spoken on the middle Dnieper.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Horse%2C+the+Wheel%2C+and+Language%3A+How+Bronze-Age+Riders+from+the+Eurasian+Steppes+Shaped+the+Modern+World&rft.place=Princeton&rft.pages=368%2C+380&rft.pub=Princeton+University+Press&rft.date=2010-07-26&rft.isbn=9781400831104&rft.aulast=Anthony&rft.aufirst=David+W.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D0FDqf415wqgC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AList+of+early+Slavic+peoples" class="Z3988"></span> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Anthony, David W. (2007). <i>The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World</i> (568 p.) Princeton: Princeton University Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-691-14818-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-691-14818-2">978-0-691-14818-2</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAdamsMallory1997" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Q._Adams" title="Douglas Q. Adams">Adams, Douglas Q.</a>; <a href="/wiki/J._P._Mallory" title="J. P. Mallory">Mallory, James Patrick</a> (1997). "Slavic languages". In <a href="/wiki/J._P._Mallory" title="J. P. Mallory">Mallory, James Patrick</a>; <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Q._Adams" title="Douglas Q. Adams">Adams, Douglas Q.</a> (eds.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tzU3RIV2BWIC"><i>Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture</i></a>. London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 523, 526. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781884964985" title="Special:BookSources/9781884964985"><bdi>9781884964985</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 October</span> 2024</span>. <q>The earliest historical location of the Slavs, during the first half millennium or so AD, corresponds roughly to the central and western Ukraine and adjacent parts of Poland. [...] Goląb argues that Proto-Slavic emerges sometime about 1000 BC, i.e., in archaeological terms during the later part of the Bronze Age after the floruit of the Trzciniec and Komarov cultures which spanned Poland and the western Ukraine and are frequently regarded as Proto-Slavic.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Slavic+languages&rft.btitle=Encyclopedia+of+Indo-European+Culture&rft.place=London&rft.pages=523%2C+526&rft.pub=Taylor+%26+Francis&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=9781884964985&rft.aulast=Adams&rft.aufirst=Douglas+Q.&rft.au=Mallory%2C+James+Patrick&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DtzU3RIV2BWIC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AList+of+early+Slavic+peoples" class="Z3988"></span> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTarasov2017" class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-script cs1-prop-long-vol cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Tarasov, Ilia M. 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exist)">Uuillerozi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zabrozi" title="Zabrozi">Zabrozi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Znetalici" title="Znetalici">Znetalici</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aturezani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aturezani (page does not exist)">Aturezani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chozirozi" class="mw-redirect" title="Chozirozi">Chozirozi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lendians" title="Lendians">Lendizi</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thafnezi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thafnezi (page does not exist)">Thafnezi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zeriuani" title="Zeriuani">Zeriuani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prissani" title="Prissani">Prissani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolinians" title="Wolinians">Uelunzani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Prussians" title="Old Prussians">Bruzi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volga_Bulgaria" title="Volga Bulgaria">Uuizubeire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khazars" title="Khazars">Caziri</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/West_Slavs#West_Slavs_from_the_Bavarian_Geographer" title="West Slavs">Besunzane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wierzyca" title="Wierzyca">Uerizane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prague" title="Prague">Fraganeo</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lupiglaa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lupiglaa (page does not exist)">Lupiglaa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opolans" title="Opolans">Opolini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golensizi" title="Golensizi">Golensizi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>The tribes are listed according to the original names and order</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Early_Slavic_ethnic_groups_(7th–12th_centuries)" style="padding:3px"><table 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title="Tivertsi">Tivertsi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulichs" title="Ulichs">Ulichs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vyatichi" title="Vyatichi">Vyatichi</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Slavs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Don Slavs (page does not exist)">Don Slavs</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B5" class="extiw" title="ru:Донские славяне">ru</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zeriuani" title="Zeriuani">Zeriuani</a><sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolokhovians" title="Bolokhovians">Bolokhovians</a><sup>1</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Dulebes" title="Dulebes">Dulebes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buzhans" title="Buzhans">Buzhans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Volhynians" title="Volhynians">Volhynians</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drevlians" title="Drevlians">Drevlians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polans_(eastern)" title="Polans (eastern)">Polans </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dregoviches" title="Dregoviches">Dregoviches</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Narevyans&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Narevyans (page does not exist)">Narevyans</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B5" class="extiw" title="ru:Наревяне">ru</a>]</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Northern tribes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Krivichs" title="Krivichs">Krivichs</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Polochans" title="Polochans">Polochans</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pskov%27s&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pskov's (page does not exist)">Pskov's</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B8" class="extiw" title="ru:Псковские кривичи">ru</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tver" title="Tver">Tver</a>'s</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smolensk" title="Smolensk">Smolensk</a>'s</li></ul></li> <li><a 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style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Goplans" title="Goplans">Goplans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lendians" title="Lendians">Lendians</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lubuszans&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lubuszans (page does not exist)">Lubuszans</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubuszanie" class="extiw" title="pl:Lubuszanie">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masovians" title="Masovians">Masovians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polans_(western)" title="Polans (western)">Polans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sieradzans" title="Sieradzans">Sieradzans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vistulans" title="Vistulans">Vistulans</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kujawians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kujawians (page does not exist)">Kujawians</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kujawianie" class="extiw" title="pl:Kujawianie">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wiercans&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wiercans (page does not exist)">Wiercans</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiercanie" class="extiw" title="pl:Wiercanie">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thafnezi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thafnezi (page does not exist)">Thafnezi</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thafnezi" class="extiw" title="pl:Thafnezi">pl</a>]</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Pomeranians_(tribe)" title="Pomeranians (tribe)">Pomeranians</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kashubians" title="Kashubians">Kashubians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prissani" title="Prissani">Prissani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolinians" title="Wolinians">Wolinians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovincians" title="Slovincians">Slovincians</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Silesian_tribes" title="Silesian tribes">Silesian tribes</a><sup>3</sup></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bezunzans&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bezunzans (page does not exist)">Bezunzans</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Besunzane" class="extiw" title="de:Besunzane">de</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobrzanie" class="mw-redirect" title="Bobrzanie">Bobrzans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Croats" title="White Croats">Silesian Croats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dadosesani" title="Dadosesani">Dadosesani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golensizi" title="Golensizi">Golensizi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opolans" title="Opolans">Opolans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selpoli" title="Selpoli">Selpoli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silesians_(tribe)" title="Silesians (tribe)">Silesians</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Polabian_Slavs" title="Polabian Slavs">Polabian tribes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Veleti" title="Veleti">Veleti</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lutici" title="Lutici">Lutici</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brizans&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brizans (page does not exist)">Brizans</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brze%C5%BCanie" class="extiw" title="pl:Brzeżanie">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circipania" title="Circipania">Circipania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kessinians" title="Kessinians">Kessinians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tollensians" title="Tollensians">Tollensians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doxani" title="Doxani">Doxani</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morzyczans&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Morzyczans (page does not exist)">Morzyczans</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morzyczanie" class="extiw" title="pl:Morzyczanie">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Neletyches&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Neletyches (page does not exist)">Neletyches</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nieletycy" class="extiw" title="pl:Nieletycy">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rani_(tribe)" title="Rani (tribe)">Rujani</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Redariers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Redariers (page does not exist)">Redariers</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redarowie" class="extiw" title="pl:Redarowie">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rechans&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rechans (page does not exist)">Rechans</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rzeczanie" class="extiw" title="pl:Rzeczanie">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sprevane" title="Sprevane">Sprevane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hevelli" title="Hevelli">Hevelli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrani" title="Ukrani">Ukrani</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zamcici&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zamcici (page does not exist)">Zamcici</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamczycy" class="extiw" title="pl:Zamczycy">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zemcici&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zemcici (page does not exist)">Zemcici</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziemczycy" class="extiw" title="pl:Ziemczycy">pl</a>]</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Obotrites" title="Obotrites">Obotrites</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bethenici" title="Bethenici">Bethenici</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drevani" title="Drevani">Drevani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linons" class="mw-redirect" title="Linons">Linons</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reregs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reregs (page does not exist)">Reregs</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reregowie" class="extiw" title="pl:Reregowie">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smeldingi" title="Smeldingi">Smeldingi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wagri" title="Wagri">Wagri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warnabi" title="Warnabi">Warnabi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polabians_(tribe)" title="Polabians (tribe)">Polabians</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sorbs" title="Sorbs">Sorbs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Khutices&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Khutices (page does not exist)">Khutices</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutycy" class="extiw" title="pl:Chutycy">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glomatians" title="Glomatians">Glomatians</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Koledices&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Koledices (page does not exist)">Koledices</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koledzice" class="extiw" title="pl:Koledzice">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lusatians_(tribe)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lusatians (tribe) (page does not exist)">Lusatians</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81u%C5%BCyczanie" class="extiw" title="pl:Łużyczanie">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milceni" title="Milceni">Milceni</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Suslowi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Suslowi (page does not exist)">Suslowi</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sus%C5%82owie" class="extiw" title="pl:Susłowie">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zhirmunts&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zhirmunts (page does not exist)">Zhirmunts</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BByrmunty" class="extiw" title="pl:Żyrmunty">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zhitices&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zhitices (page does not exist)">Zhitices</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BBytyce" class="extiw" title="pl:Żytyce">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Neletiches&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Neletiches (page does not exist)">Neletiches</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nieletycy" class="extiw" title="pl:Nieletycy">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nizhices&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nizhices (page does not exist)">Nizhices</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizice" class="extiw" title="pl:Nizice">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nishans" class="mw-redirect" title="Nishans">Nishans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sorbs_(tribe)" title="Sorbs (tribe)">Sorbs</a> (<a href="/wiki/White_Serbia" title="White Serbia">White Serbs</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Bohemians_(tribe)" title="Bohemians (tribe)">Czech tribes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/White_Croats" title="White Croats">Bohemian Croats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Czechs" title="Czechs">Czechs</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dechans&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dechans (page does not exist)">Dechans</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deczanie" class="extiw" title="pl:Deczanie">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dulebes" title="Dulebes">Bohemian Dulebes</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lemuzi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lemuzi (page does not exist)">Lemuzi</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuzi" class="extiw" title="cs:Lemuzi">cs</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Litomerici&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Litomerici (page does not exist)">Litomerici</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litomierzyce_(plemi%C4%99)" class="extiw" title="pl:Litomierzyce (plemię)">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Luchans&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Luchans (page does not exist)">Luchans</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C4%8Dan%C3%A9" class="extiw" title="cs:Lučané">cs</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moravians_(tribe)" title="Moravians (tribe)">Moravians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merehani" title="Merehani">Merehani</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pshovans&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pshovans (page does not exist)">Pshovans</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C5%A1ovan%C3%A9" class="extiw" title="cs:Pšované">cs</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sedlichans&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sedlichans (page does not exist)">Sedlichans</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siedliczanie" class="extiw" title="pl:Siedliczanie">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zlicans" title="Zlicans">Zlicans</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hbans&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hbans (page does not exist)">Hbans</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8" class="extiw" title="uk:Гбани">uk</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Domazhlici&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Domazhlici (page does not exist)">Domazhlici</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B8" class="extiw" title="ru:Домажличи">ru</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lupiglians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lupiglians (page does not exist)">Lupiglians</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupiglaa" class="extiw" title="pl:Lupiglaa">pl</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Znetalici" title="Znetalici">Znetalici</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Slovaks" title="Slovaks">Slovak tribes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nitrians&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nitrians (page does not exist)">Nitrians</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrzanie" class="extiw" title="pl:Nitrzanie">pl</a>]</span><sup>4</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovaks" title="Slovaks">Slovaks</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/South_Slavs" title="South Slavs">South Slavs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Bulgarian tribes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Union of the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Slavic_tribes" title="Seven Slavic tribes">Seven Slavic tribes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Severians" title="Severians">Southern Severians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smolyani" title="Smolyani">Smolyani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strymonites" title="Strymonites">Strymonites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moratsi" title="Moratsi">Moratsi</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Milcovci&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Milcovci (page does not exist)">Milcovci</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%86%D1%8B" class="extiw" title="ru:Мильковцы">ru</a>]</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">in <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a> and <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(region)" title="Macedonia (region)">Macedonia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Drougoubitai" title="Drougoubitai">Drougoubitai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ezeritai" title="Ezeritai">Ezeritai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melingoi" title="Melingoi">Melingoi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sagudates" title="Sagudates">Sagudates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baiounitai" title="Baiounitai">Baiounitai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belegezites" title="Belegezites">Belegezites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berziti" title="Berziti">Berziti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhynchinoi" title="Rhynchinoi">Rhynchinoi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Slavic_settlement_of_the_Eastern_Alps" title="Slavic settlement of the Eastern Alps">Alpine Slavs</a> (<a href="/wiki/Carantanians" title="Carantanians">Carantanians</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asia_Minor_Slavs" title="Asia Minor Slavs">Asia Minor Slavs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pannonian_Slavs" class="mw-redirect" title="Pannonian Slavs">Pannonian Slavs</a> (<a href="/wiki/Dulebes" title="Dulebes">Pannonian Dulebes</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Croats" title="Croats">Croats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guduscani" title="Guduscani">Guduscani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narentines" title="Narentines">Narentines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zachlumia" title="Zachlumia">Zachlumians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Travunija" class="mw-redirect" title="Travunija">Travunians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanalites" title="Kanalites">Kanalites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duklja" title="Duklja">Diokletlians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serbs" title="Serbs">Serbs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merehani" title="Merehani">Moravens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timo%C4%8Dani" title="Timočani">Timochans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brani%C4%8Devci" title="Braničevci">Branichevci</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Praedenecenti" title="Praedenecenti">Praedenecenti</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><b>Notes</b> (ethnicity is undefined): <sup>1</sup> = supposedly Eastern Slavic tribes</li> <li><sup>2</sup> = supposedly <a href="/wiki/Finno-Ugric_languages" title="Finno-Ugric languages">Finno-Ugric</a> tribes</li> <li><sup>3</sup> = some of the Silesian tribes are Germanic, for example <a href="/wiki/Silingi" title="Silingi">Silings</a></li> <li><sup>4</sup> = generally considered synonym for early medieval Slovaks</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Slavic_ethnic_groups" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks 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