The First Documented Slavic Ruler – Bož of the Antes
Bož(pronounced bozh) was the king of the Antes, an early Slavic people who lived in parts of present-day Ukraine and who were the ancestors of most of the Eastern Slavs. His story is mentioned...
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The Strongest Polabian Country – Polabian Chronicles
-Place of the Obodrites in the World- The earliest of the big countries of Polabia that appear in written sources are the Serbian Federation, the assumed Great Kingdom of Veleti, and the Kingdom of...
Slavic Conquest of Macedonia
The Tribes of Macedonia The earliest historical sources mentioning a Slavic conquest of Macedonia come from the Byzantine historian John from Efez, who, in 581 AD, wrote: “They lived on the peninsula freely,...
Vandals – A Slavic Tribe or not?
A number of German historians already claimed that Vandals had to be Slavic, the most famous one being Helmut Schrocke in his most known book Germanen Slawen. The phonetic similarity and geographic proximity of...
Antes and Sclavenes around 500 AD according to Jordanes
The earliest detailed description of Slavic territory as it was around year 500 AD comes from Procopius and Jordanes, but it is quite possible that they did not have full knowledge about the extent...
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