Outline of Slavic history and culture explained

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

• Slavs
• East Slavs, West Slavs, South Slavs
• Antes people, Braničevci, Buzhans, Carantanians, Guduscani, Melingoi, Merehani, Slavs in Lower Pannonia, Praedenecenti, Sclaveni, Sebbirozi, Seven Slavic tribes, Severians, Zeriuani, Znetalici
• Belarusians, Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Czechs, Kashubians, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Poles, Russians, Rusyns, Slovaks, Serbs, Slovenes, Sorbs, Ukrainians
• Slavic names, Slavic name suffixes

History

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

Subjects

• Slavic migrations to Southeastern Europe
• History of the Slavic languages

Tribes and peoples

• Early Slavs
• Gorani people
• Great Moravia
• Kievan Rus'
• Samo's Empire
• Seven Slavic tribes
• Slavic Pomeranians
• Slavs in Lower Pannonia

Individuals

• Nestor the Chronicler

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).

• Porga of Croatia (died 660), last pagan ruler of the Principality of Dalmatian Croatia
• Vlastimir of Serbia (died 851), last pagan ruler of the first Serbian principality
• Presian I of Bulgaria (died 852), last pagan ruler of the Bulgarian Empire
• Sviatoslav I of Kiev (died 972)
• Yaropolk I of Kiev (died 980), last pagan ruler of the Kievan Rus
• Mstivoj (died 995), leader of the Slavic revolt against Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor
• Niklot (died 1160), leader of the Obotrites

Culture

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

Society

• Veche
• Slavic carnival

Literature and writing

• Slavic literature
• Pre-Christian Slavic writing
• Slavic mythology
• Slavic studies

Language

• History of the Slavic languages
• Balto-Slavic languages, Slavic languages, East Slavic languages, South Slavic languages, West Slavic languages
• History of the Slavic languages, Proto-Balto-Slavic language, Proto-Slavic language, History of Proto-Slavic, Proto-Slavic borrowings
• Old Church Slavonic, Church Slavonic
• Old East Slavic
• Interslavic
• Pan-Slavic language
• Slavic microlanguages

Orthography

• Glagolitic script, Relationship of Cyrillic and Glagolitic scripts, Proto-Slavic accent
• Macedonian language

Religion

• Christianization of the Slavs
• Slavic paganism, Slavic Native Faith

• Slavic Native Faith's theology and cosmology, Slavic Native Faith's identity and political philosophy, Slavic Native Faith and Christianity, Slavic Native Faith's calendars and holidays

• Slavic Native Faith in Ukraine, Slavic Native Faith in Poland, Slavic Native Faith in Russia
• Zhrets, Volkhv
• Peterburgian Vedism

Deities

• Morana (goddess)
• Mokosh

Folklore

• Lech, Czech, and Rus'
• Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv

Chronicles

• Rus' chronicle
• List of Rus' chronicles
• Primary Chronicle
• Textual criticism of the Primary Chronicle
• Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles

Holidays

• Kupala Night
• Koliada
• Maslenitsa

Lists

• List of Slavic cultures
• List of early Slavic peoples
• List of Slavic studies journals
• List of Slavic deities, List of Slavic pseudo-deities
• List of Balto-Slavic languages
• List of tribes and states in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine
• List of Glagolitic manuscripts
• List of Glagolitic books
• List of Slavic Native Faith's organisations

Other

• Slavophilia
• Anti-Slavic sentiment
• Slavicization
• Pan-Slavism
• Neo-Slavism
• Austro-Slavism
• Slavs (ethnonym)
• Gord (archaeology)

Other Slavic outlines

• Outline of Belarus
• Outline of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Outline of Bulgaria
• Outline of Croatia
• Outline of the Czech Republic
• Outline of Montenegro
• Outline of North Macedonia
• Outline of Poland
• Outline of Russia
• Outline of Serbia
• Outline of Slovakia
• Outline of Slovenia
• Outline of Ukraine
• Outline of the Soviet Union

References

Bibliography

• Book: ((Barford, P. M.)) . 25 October 2001 . The Early Slavs : Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe . Cornell University Press .
• Book: ((Dolukhanov, P.)) . 26 July 2016 . The Early Slavs: Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus . Routledge .
• Book: ((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 .
• Book: ((Plokhy, S.)) . 2 October 2006 . The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus . Cambridge University Press .
• Book: ((Stone, G.)) . 17 December 2015 . Slav Outposts in Central European History: The Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs . Bloomsbury Academic .

External links

See also: List of Slavic studies journals.

• Slavic Review (1941–present); Slavic Review was previously published as Slavonic Yearbook American Series (1941), Slavonic and East European Review American Series (1943–1944), and American Slavic and East European Review (1945–1961). Published quarterly by Cambridge University Press; the journal is a publication of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; (online), (print).
• Slavonic and East European Review (1922–1927, 1928–present); Previously published as The Slavonic Review (1922–1927). Published by the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies; (print), (online).

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: Slav . . 13 May 2022.