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The present-day Slavic peoples are usually divided into the three following groups: West Slavic, East Slavic, and South Slavic. This division has both linguistic and historico-geographical justification, in the sense that on the one hand the respective Slavic languages show some old features which
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While being traditionally regarded, at least in Polish historiography, as forefathers of the western Slavs, and therefore successors of the Veneti mentioned by Pliny, Tacitus, or Claudius Ptolemaeus, recent studies argue that the name may have not been a self-designation. By calling the Slavs
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are neither clear nor consistent in their ethnographic terminology, and whether "Wends" or "Veneti" refer to Slavic people, pre-Slavic people, or to a territory rather than a population, is a matter of scholarly debate.
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to be first independent Slavic state in history by taking Fredegar's Wendish account at face value. Curta (1997) argued that the text is not as straightforward: according to Fredegar, Wends were a
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spanned much of Central Europe between what is now Eastern Germany and Western Romania. In the high medieval period, the West Slavic tribes were again pushed to the east by the incipient German
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reached Central Europe in the 7th century, and the West Slavic dialects diverged from common Slavic over the following centuries. The West Slavic tribes settled on the eastern fringes of the
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unite them into the above three groups, and on the other hand the pre- and early historical migrations of the respective Slavic peoples distributed them geographically in just this way.
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Slavic groups had probably become geographically separated. One of the distinguishing features of the West Slavic tribes was manifested in the structure of the
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Various attempts have been made to group the West Slavs into subgroups according to various criteria, including geography, historical tribes, and linguistics.
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by the 8th to 9th centuries. The West Slavic languages diversified into their historically attested forms over the 10th to 14th centuries.
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of the closed (long) type, while the East Slavic sanctuaries had a round (most often open) shape (
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Bohemia and Poland. Chapter 20.pp 512-513. Timothy Reuter. The New Cambridge Medieval History:
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began in the 5th century, and by the 6th century the groups that would become the West,
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survived until the beginning of the 19th century in what is now the German state of
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Statecraft : the deeds of Antonio Carafa = (De rebus gestis Antonj Caraphaei)
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Culture and foreign policy : the neglected factor in international relations
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Bohemia and Poland: two examples of successful western Slavonic state-formation
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Linguistically, the West Slavic group can be divided into three subgroups:
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occur particularly in political contexts: the Wends, not the Slavs, made
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made a list of West Slavic tribes who lived in the areas of modern-day
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group around the 7th century, and established independent polities in
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The handbook of cross-border ethnic and religious affinities
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Today, groups which speak West Slavic languages include the
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Other such alleged early West Slavic states include the
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