Thomas the Slav (Greek: Θωμᾶς ὁ Σλάβος, romanized: Thōmas ho Slavos, c. 760 – October 823) was a 9th-century Byzantine military commander, most notable...
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The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia;...
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The early Slavs were speakers of Indo-European dialects who lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages (approximately from the 5th to...
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himself to a series of twenty monumental symbolist canvases known as The Slav Epic, depicting the history of all the Slavic peoples of the world, which...
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Macedonians (ethnic group) (redirect from Slav Macedonians)
success of Boris I's efforts was a major factor in making the Slavs in Macedonia—and the other Slavs within the First Bulgarian State—into Bulgarians and transforming...
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Publications PVT. LTD., 2002 Hollingsworth, Paul A.; Cutler, Anthony (1991). "Thomas the Slav". In Kazhdan, Alexander (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium....
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the monarchs of the South Slavs adopted Christianity in the 9th century, the East Slavs in the 10th, and the West Slavs between the 9th and 12th century...
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The Asia Minor Slavs were the historical South Slav communities relocated by the Byzantine Empire from the Balkans to Asia Minor (Anatolia). After Maurice's...
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assassination at Christmas in 820. Immediately he faced the long revolt of Thomas the Slav, which almost cost him his throne and was not completely quelled until...
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caricature of prejudice". Targets for his ire included the French, the Irish, Slavs, Turks, Americans, Catholics, and, most explicitly, blacks and Jews. According...
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Battle of Boulgarophygon Thomas the Slav seeks refuge with the Arabs a. Thomas the Slav negotiates with the Saracens b. Thomas's troops defeat the Imperial...
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Anti-Slavic sentiment (redirect from Anti-slavism)
the assertion that Slavs are inferior to other peoples. This sentiment peaked during World War II, when Nazi Germany classified Slavs— especially the Poles...
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importance of the Avars in the Balkans, used the terms "Slavs" to refer to the Avars or the Avaro-Slavs. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the region...
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mainly used against "the masses from the East", that is Jews, Roma, and Slavs (mainly ethnic Poles, Belarusians, Czechs, Ukrainians, Serbs, and Russians)...
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Western-oriented navy. They also became the Pan-Slavic colors, particularly Austro-Slavism in countries that became independent from the Austro-Hungarian monarchy...
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under Thomas the Slav in Thrace. He and his supporters are forced to seek refuge in Arkadiopolis (modern Turkey). After five months of blockade, Thomas surrenders...
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Macedonian Australians (redirect from Slav Macedonian Australian)
departments call Macedonians as "Slav-Macedonians" and some people from the north of Greece as "persons associated with Slav-Macedonians". Government owned...
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Bulgarians (redirect from Bulgarian Slavs)
forming three main branches: the West Slavs in eastern Central Europe, the East Slavs in Eastern Europe, and the South Slavs in Southeastern Europe (Balkans)...
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Carantanians (redirect from Carantanian Slavs)
people of the Early Middle Ages (Latin: Sclavi qui dicuntur Quarantani, or "Slavs called Carantanians"), living in the principality of Carantania, later known...
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the new Byzantine Emperor Michael II to the throne in 820. In 821 Thomas the Slav rebelled against the Byzantine Emperor and laid siege to Constantinople...
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various tribes, notably the Franks, Goths, Alemanni, Alans, Huns, early Slavs, Pannonian Avars, Bulgars and Magyars within or into the territories of...
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by Slav farmers, giving way to steppelands populated by nomadic herdsmen. There was once controversy over whether the Rus' were Varangians or Slavs (see...
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as a sable. This is related to the Middle High German zobel, which is of Slav origin and akin to the Russian sobol', which likewise refers to the sable...
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River Oder, an area later entitled Germania Slavica, settled by the Polabian Slav tribes in the north and by others, such as the Sorbs and the Milceni, further...
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Holocaust victims (section Slavs)
majority of the Nazi regime's victims were Jews, Sinti-Roma peoples, and Slavs but victims also encompassed people identified as social outsiders in the...
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Adalbert of Magdeburg (redirect from Adalbert Apostle of the Slavs)
as the Apostle of the Slavs, was the first Archbishop of Magdeburg (from 968) and a successful missionary to the Polabian Slavs to the east of what was...
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Ivan Tomko Mrnavić (redirect from Giovanni Thomas Marnavich)
Mrnavić believed that the Illyrians were Slavs. He claimed that Skanderbeg, the national hero of Albania, was of Slav origin, which prompted Frang Bardhi to...
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Nazi racial theories (section Slavs)
Nordic race being best branch, and they considered Jews, mixed-race people, Slavs, Romani, Black People, and certain other ethnicities racially inferior subhumans...
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Slavic and East European Journal (redirect from Slav East Eur J)
changed to The AATSEEL Journal. In 1957, under the leadership of Professor J. Thomas Shaw, a distinguished Pushkinist who taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison...
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October. The South Slavs in both halves of the monarchy had already declared in favor of uniting with Serbia in a large South Slav state in the 1917 Corfu...
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