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unusual facts about East Slavs


East Slavs

In the eighth and ninth centuries, the south branches of East Slavic tribes had to pay tribute to the Khazars, a Turkic-speaking people who adopted Judaism in the late eighth or ninth century and lived in the southern Volga and Caucasus regions.


Shyoltozero

970, of which 61% were Veps or of Veps descent, 7% represented other Baltic Finnic nationalities, and 32% represented Russians and other East Slavic ethnicities.


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Genetic studies on Serbs

An analysis of molecular variance based on Y-chromosomal STRs showed that Slavs can be divided into two groups: one encompassing West Slavs, East Slavs, Slovenes, and western Croats, and the other encompassing Bulgarians, Macedonian Slavs, Serbs, Bosniaks, and northern Croats (the latter five populations are South Slavic speakers).