Outline of Slavic history and culture

Topical outline of articles about Slavic history and culture. This outline is an overview of Slavic topics; for outlines related to specific Slavic groups and topics, see the links in the Other Slavic outlines section below.

The Slavs are a collection of peoples who speak the various Slavic languages, belonging to the larger Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout northern Eurasia, mainly inhabiting Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Siberia. A large Slavic minority is also scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, and from the late 19th century, a substantial Slavic diaspora developed throughout the Americas.[1]

Human geography

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History

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Articles about Slavic history before the Mongol invasions of Slavic lands. For later periods, see outlines for individual Slavic groups.

Subjects

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Tribes and peoples

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Individuals

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Slavic pagans

Christianization of the Slavs took place from the 7th to 12th centuries, with a pagan reaction in Poland in the 1030s and conversion of the Polabian Slavs by the 1180s (see Wendish Crusade).

Culture

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Articles about general Slavic culture. For articles about specific Slavic cultures (e.g. Polish, Ukrainian.), see outlines for individual Slavic groups.

Society

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Literature and writing

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Language

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Orthography

Religion

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Deities

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Folklore

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Symbols

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Chronicles

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Holidays

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Lists

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Other

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Other Slavic outlines

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References

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Notes

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Citations

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  1. ^ "Slav". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 13 May 2022.

Bibliography

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  • Barford, P. M. (25 October 2001). The Early Slavs : Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe. Cornell University Press.
  • Dolukhanov, P. (26 July 2016). The Early Slavs: Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus. Routledge.
  • Lajoye, P., Dynda, J., Ivanenko, A., Kajkowski, K., Koptev, A., Kutarev, O., Valentsova, M., Zaroff, R., Zochios, S. (9 July 2019). New Researches on the Religion and Mythology of the Pagan Slavs. Lingva.
  • Plokhy, S. (2 October 2006). The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Cambridge University Press.
  • Stone, G. (17 December 2015). Slav Outposts in Central European History: The Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs. Bloomsbury Academic.
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