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4 unusual facts about Slavic


Anti-Fascist Youth Union of the Free Territory of Trieste

The Anti-Fascist Youth Union of the Julian March was formed as an integral part of the Slavic-Italian Anti-Fascist Union.

Opanak

Serbo-Croatian òpanak/о̀панак, as well as Bulgarian and Macedonian опинок, ultimately derive from Proto-Slavic word *opьnъkъ.

Proto-Slavic

# Late Common Slavic (c. 800 — 1000 CE, although perhaps through c. 1150 CE in Kievan Rus', in the far northeast): The last stage in which the whole Slavic-speaking area still functioned as a single language, with sound changes normally propagating throughout the entire area, although often with significant dialectal variation in the details.

Sytykhiv

It is believed that the name Sytykhiv is derived from the Proto-Slavic name Sebetikh.


Babaroga

Baba Yaga, a hag from Slavic folklore -- Baba = old woman, rog = horn

Bezovica, Vojnik

The name Bezovica is derived from the Slavic common noun *bъzъ 'elder', thus originally referring to the vegetation.

Similar names based on the same root are common in Slovenian ethnic territory (e.g., Basovizza in Italy and Bezgovica) as well as in other Slavic areas (e.g., Bazje in Croatia, Bzová in the Czech Republic, etc.

Bezuljak

The name Bezuljak is derived from the Slavic common noun *bъzъ 'elder', thus originally referring to the vegetation.

Biblical manuscript

Parts of the New Testament have been preserved in more manuscripts than any other ancient work, having over 5,800 complete or fragmented Greek manuscripts, 10,000 Latin manuscripts and 9,300 manuscripts in various other ancient languages including Syriac, Slavic, Gothic, Ethiopic, Coptic and Armenian.

Bogomilism

The Secret Book is a Macedonian feature film combining the detective, thriller and conspiracy fiction genres, based on a fictional story of the quest for the original Slavic language "Secret Book", written by the Bogomils in Bulgaria and carried to Western Europe during the Middle Ages.

Bohova, Hoče–Slivnica

Like related Slavic place names (e.g., Bochowo in Poland and Bochov in the Czech Republic), the name is derived from the Slavic personal name *Boxъ, referring to early ownership or association with the place.

Book of Veles

Most of the scholars that specialize in the field of mythological studies and Slavic linguistics (such as Boris Rybakov, Andrey Zaliznyak, Leo Klein and all Russian academic historians and linguists) consider it a forgery.

Breg, Sevnica

Breg is not only a common toponym in Slovenia, but also has equivalents in other Slavic languages (e.g., Brijeg in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Břehy in the Czech Republic, Brehy in Slovakia, and Brzeg in Poland), all derived from the Slavic common noun *bergъ 'slope, bank'.

Brezovica pri Borovnici

The name Brezovica and names like it are relatively common in Slovenia and in other Slavic countries (e.g., Březovice in the Czech Republic, Brezovica in Serbia, etc.).

Cvetka Lipuš

She attended the lyceum for Slovenes in Klagenfurt, continuing her studies in literary sciences, Slavic studies and librarian sciences at the University of Vienna, University of Klagenfurt and in Pittsburgh, where she currently lives.

Diaspora language

Considered an endangered language, Molise Slavic is spoken by approximately 3,500 people in the villages of Montemitro, San Felice del Molise, and Acquaviva Collecroce in southern Molise, as well as elsewhere in southern Italy.

Fritz T. Epstein

In 1962, he joined the faculty of Indiana University as professor and curator of the Slavic collections.

Hill's Absinth

The father and son operation prospered producing specialties such as Absinth, Radigast (herbal liqueur named after the Slavic God of War) 160 proof 'Alpsky Rum' (Alp Style Rum), and Zubrovka (Bison Grass Vodka), Bison Grass handpicked from the Gomel Region in Belarus.

History of Poland in the Middle Ages

The first waves of Slavic migration settled the area of the upper Vistula River and elsewhere in the lands of present-day southeastern Poland and southern Masovia, coming from the upper and middle regions of the Dnieper River.

Jacob Paul von Gundling

His work on Albrecht the Bear, the first Margrave of Brandenburg, contains the first known mention of the story of how Albrecht converted the Slavic Prince Jaxa to Christianity.

James Westfall Thompson

Thompson's two-volume study of the social and economic history of medieval Germany, Feudal Germany, appropriated elements of Frederick Jackson Turner's famous Frontier Thesis and applied them to the colonization of Slavic central Europe by German settlers in the Middle Ages.

Jaxa of Köpenick

Hence, Mieszko the Old, Duke of Greater Poland (later High Duke of Poland) actively supported Jaxa and the Slavic rebellion, fully aware that as long as German nobles were busy fighting Slavs to the west, they could not intervene into Polish affairs.

Jihlava

An old Slavic settlement upon a ford was moved to a nearby hill where the mining town was founded (ca. 1240) by king Václav I, in the Middle Ages inhabited mostly by Germans (mostly from Northern Bavaria and Upper Saxony).

Kałduny

Kalduny refers to dumplings in Belarusian and other Slavic cuisines.

Kishka

Intestine or gut, in East Slavic languages, also used in English-language Yiddishisms

Limits of the Five Patriarchates

Christians ever crowd until Ravenna, Lombardy, and Thessalonika, Slavic, and Scythians, and Avars until Danube river, the ecclesiastical border, and Sardinia, Megara, Carthage, and part of Balearic Islands, and part of Sicily and Calabria, where the winds blow nasty, from the north, from the south, from the west-south, and from the east-south.

Lučine

The name Lučine, like similar toponyms (e.g., Luče, Leutschach < Lučane), is derived from the Slavic personal name *Ľubъkъ and likely refers to an early inhabitant of the place.

Macedonia in the Middle Ages

Republic of Macedonia, a country composed of Bulgaria (theme) and the Slavic states in the Middle Ages

Matija Majar

Influenced by the Illyrian Movement in Croatia, especially by the Slovene-Croatian poet and activist Stanko Vraz, Majar started developing Pan-Slavic ideals.

Mijaks

After the Treaty of San Stefano (March 3, 1878), the Debar county, along with 11 other counties of Slavic Macedonia, sent deputies and appeals to Prince Milan of Serbia (r. 1868-1889), asking him to annex the region to Serbia.

Montenegrin

Montenegrin language, a modern Slavic language spoken by ethnic Montenegrins

Naklo, Naklo

The name Naklo appears elsewhere in Slovenia and in other Slavic countries—for example, Nakło (Poland) and Náklo (Czech Republic).

Odo I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark

The West Slavic Polans had established a state east of the Saxon marches and, aiming to advance into the Pomeranian lands north of the Warta river, had reached an agreement with late Margrave Gero and Emperor Otto I: Mieszko's ducal title was confirmed and the Polans paid a recurring tribute to the emperor, which was collected by Margrave Odo.

Ostrov, Constanța

The name Ostrov is a word of Slavic origin and it means "island".

Palatine

The word palatinus and its derivatives also translate the titles of certain great functionaries in eastern Europe, such as the Slavic voivode, a military governor of a province.

Peer Hultberg

He continued his studies of Slavic languages at the University of London and achieved a B.A. in 1963.

Pereyaslavl

Principality of Pereyaslavl - a medieval Eastern Slavic state of the Rus from 1175 to 1302

Rrahman Morina

In 1988, Morina was installed as leader of the Kosovan wing of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, due to the "anti-bureaucratic revolution", Milošević-orchestrated removal of Azem Vllasi and Kaqusha Jashari from the Kosovan party leadership, as he was one of very few non-Slavic opponents of tendencies of Kosovan separatism.

Sântana de Mureș

It probably corresponds to the Gothic kingdom of Oium as described by Jordanes in his work Getica, but it is nonetheless the result of a poly-ethnic cultural mélange of the Gothic, Getae-Dacian, Sarmatian and Slavic populations of the area.

Schmargendorf

It was probably established about 1220 by German settlers in the course of the Ostsiedlung under the co-ruling Ascanian Margraves John I and Otto III of Brandenburg, after the former Slavic territories had been conquered by their great-grandfather Albert the Bear.

Seßlach

From the East Slavic (Wendish) settlers pressed forward into the region of Schweinfurt, who were on the run from their Avar enemies.

Severans

erroneously, to the Severians (or Siverians) - a former Eastern Slavic tribe

Slavic neopaganism

In the 19th century, many Slavic nations experienced a Romantic fascination with an idealised Slavic Arcadia believed to have existed before the advent of Christianity, combining such notions as the noble savage and Johann Gottfried Herder's national spirit.

Svante

The Slavic languages have the name which is rendered as Sviatopolk in Russian, Świętopełk in Polish and Svatopluk/Svätopluk in Czech and Slovakian.

Sweden–Ukraine relations

The first documented contacts between the people of Scandinavia and the Slavic territories of Ukraine are the Varangian journeys to what they called Garðaríki.

Talitha MacKenzie

Training as a concert pianist from the age of four (teaching by the age of thirteen, and later specialising in Slavic and Impressionist piano music), she also began to teach herself Scottish Gaelic in her teens.

Tomich

Tomić, a Slavic surname sometimes transliterated as Tomich

Trypillia

The name of Trypillia means "three fields" in Slavic languages and is unrelated to Tripoli.

Wilhelm Malte I

Wilhelm Malte I, Prince of Putbus (1783 – 1854) was a German prince (Fürst) from the old Slavic-Rügen noble family of the lords of Putbus.

Zinna Abbey

The abbey was founded in about 1170 by Wichmann von Seeburg, the Archbishop of Magdeburg, after his troops had conquered the former Slavic territory.

Zorokiv

In ancient times, the area near Zorokiv was inhabited by the forest-dwelling east Slavic tribe Drevlyans and was subsequently, in the 10th century, incorporated into Kievan Rus.

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