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This is a list of early Slavic peoples reported in Late Antiquity and in the Middle Ages, that is, before the year AD 1500.
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South Slavic tribes descend mainly from two Slavic tribal confederations, Sclaveni and Antes. To reach the Balkans, the two groups took two different paths. While the Sclaveni came from Central Europe north of the Danube and migrated south around the eastern edges of the Alps and across the western part of the Pannonian Plain, the Antes came from the steppe between the Dniester and the Dnieper, penetrating into the Balkans throuhgh Transylvania or, alternatively, the mouth of the Danube. [20]
A number of historians have attributed the early split between Eastern and Western South Slavs to the different origins of Sclaveni and Antes. [21] While Western South Slavs were closely linked to the Western Slavic Veneti, Eastern South Slavs originated from the Eastern Slavic Antes. This is confirmed by both historical records and the duplication of tribal names between West Slavs and Western South Slavs and East Slavs and Eastern South Slavs, respectively. For example, the Polabian White Serb confederation is generally thought to be the ancestor of both Western Slavic Sorbs and South Slavic Serbs, while the Dunabian Abodriti, also known as Praedenecenti, are generally associated with the Polabian Obotrites. [22]
The same is true for Antes and Eastern South Slavs. For example, part of the East Slavic Severians are known to have migrated to present-day northeastern Bulgaria, becoming foederati of the First Bulgarian Empire under the name Severi, while some Pripyat Dregoviches are assumed to have migrated to the valley of the Vardar, establishing themselves as the Drougoubitai. [23] The Seven Slavic tribes are also hypothesized to be Antes hailing from the lands of modern Ukraine, but missing records of their tribal names makes the hypothesis unverifiable.
Therefore, it has been suggested that the ancestors of medieval Bosnians, Serbs and Croatians were the Sclaveni, wereas the progenitors of the Bulgarian Slavs were the Antes. [24] Nevertheless, there must have been substantial overlap between Sclaveni and Antes, especially in contact zones. For example, the exact origin of White Croats is still shrouded in mystery. Some scholars consider them be an Antes tribal polity that migrated to Galicia in the 3rd–4th century, [25] [26] [27] while others regard them as early Sclaveni or as a mixture of both Antes and Sclaveni. [28]
Nevertheless, South Slavs over time evolved into a new Slavic ethnolinguistic group. This phenomenon was accentuated by the Bavarian expansion east (as an element in the Ostsiedlung) and by the Magyar settlement and expansion in the Pannonian Plain, which severed the contiguous land or territory between West and South Slavs (in the Middle Danube river basin) and contact between both of them, contributing to greater differentiation.
Mentioned by Bavarian Geographer and possibly Baltic Indo-European
Mentioned by Bavarian Geographer and possibly Iranian Indo-European
Mentioned by Bavarian Geographer and possibly Turkic
Mentioned by Bavarian Geographer and possibly Uralic
Mentioned by Bavarian Geographer and Unknown
[...] most discussions of Germanic, Baltic, or Slavic origins look back to the Corded Ware horizon. [...] The Yamnaya and Corded Ware horizons bordered each other in the hills between Lvov and Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine, in the upper Dniester piedmont around 2800-2600 BCE [...]. [...] Slavic and Baltic probably evolved from dialects spoken on the middle Dnieper.
The earliest historical location of the Slavs, during the first half millennium or so AD, corresponds roughly to the central and western Ukraine and adjacent parts of Poland. [...] Goląb argues that Proto-Slavic emerges sometime about 1000 BC, i.e., in archaeological terms during the later part of the Bronze Age after the floruit of the Trzciniec and Komarov cultures which spanned Poland and the western Ukraine and are frequently regarded as Proto-Slavic.
Zarubintsy is the easterly variant of the Przeworsk-Zarubintsy complex of cultures that occupied the northern Dnieper region from the third or second century BC to the second century AD. [...] The territory, both in terms of geographical position and the evidence of early Slavic river names, is probably to be associated with the (Proto-?) Slavic language although there are scholars to argue both a Germanic or Baltic identity.
Čvrsto sam ubijeđen, na temelju topografije, da je u pradomovrni stanovnika Bosne postojalo, živjelo ime Bosna i kao takvo zabilježeno u izvorima ili je ostalo u toponimima na terenu. Zato nije bilo teško jakom i mnogobrojnom plemenu Bosna da pri dolasku u centralnu Bosnu potisne staro predslavensko ime ili imena na području Gornje Bosne i ujedini srodna slavenska plemena i rodove pod jednim imenom Bosna i za oznaku rijeke Bosne.