Blogs: Early Slavs

Dubrovnik was founded in the seventh century in the vicinity of Epidaurus, which had been previously destroyed by the Slavs. The population which was originally Roman became slowly Croaticized, so that the end of the fourteenth century ...

Beer came to the Czech Republic with its first inhabitants – evidence of brewing and drinking has been found in the dwellings of early Teutons, Slavs and Celts, and by AD 922 the newly consecrated Bishop Vojtech was complaining about ...

The country's original name was Russ, a state populated mostly by the Early East Slavs. However, this proper name became more famous in the later history, and the country typically was called by its inhabitants Russkaya Zemlya which can ...

As early as the period of the Balkan War of 1913 Greece had begun the ethnic genocide of the Macedonian people. The cruelty displayed by the Greek soldiers in their dealings towards the Macedonian people was merciless. .... I also believe that the Slavic tribe assimilated whoever was here from the natives because they were more in numbers but took their name as theirs. I am not getting into whether those ancient Macedonians were a Greek tribe or a tribe of their own and ...

... the cause of international Communist revolution by mellowing out a bit during the mid-50's and early 70's respectively) could be incapable of telling the difference between an Albanian and a Cossack? The Albanians aren't even Slavs, ...

This makes a total of twelve who is – or the number of houses of the zodiac used by early astronomers to make calendars. The scale seems to have seeped set by traditional trade institutions. In Cochin, India, next to the Mattancherry ... A variant based on the same number of votes and called the child 'Key' became the basis of the Eastern Slavs (note that the final centuries of 19 composers and 20 as Borodin, Mousourgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky have ...

... while burning Islam's holy book is evil and bad, bad....the US government takes it upon itself to get rid of a few extra Christian Holy Books...after all, the Christian serfs and slaves back home do not matter and the soldiers doing ...

Andrei Rublev's famous Trinity Icon, early 15th century. Rublev's the Face (Christ the Saviour), 15th Century. Icon Not Made by Human Hand, by Simon Ushakov, Russia, 1658. Christ the Pantokrator, 6th century from St. Catherine's Monastery ..... Slavic Saints Saints Cyril & Methodius, Greek brothers who brought Christ to the Slavs. Click on Icon for more information on Ss. Cyril & Methodius. The Baptism of St. Volodymyr (Vladimir), Grand Prince of Kievan Rus', in 988 (b. ...