Where tf did Slavs suddenly appear from?
Where tf did Slavs suddenly appear from?
Jonathan Butler
Carter Rivera
From Poland obviously
James Ortiz
we did not "suddenly" appear you dumb fuck. we have always been here, just moved further west when germanic tribes left vistula area.
Aaron Diaz
Yeah, but where the Venedi came from then?
Are they Sarmatians or Celts?
Jace Rivera
Genuinely curious. What are some notable slav interactions with the dominant forces in the years BC? Any wars with Greeks/Romans/Persians or treaties etc... Someone of /his/ said that Scythians were slavic.
Josiah Gonzalez
Oh look. Our city still has the same name, Napoca
Landon Jenkins
It is believed Slavs originated around the swamps of the Pripyat' river as part of the Balto-Slavic community that was influenced by Iranian (Sarmatian) and Germanic tribes (hence Iranian and Germanic loanwords in Proto-Early-Slavic, also darker complexion than Baltic people).
The most interesting fact is that the "demographic explosion" that is purported to have taken place between 7th and 10th century did not really happen as it would be biologically impossible to increase the population that much in such a short period of time, therefore scientists think the Slavic language was just a lingua franca of Eastern Europe, gradually adopted by different nations that had contact with Slavs who were used by the Avars as cannon fodder during their wars. For instance, Bulgarians have little Slavic admixture in their veins.
Kevin Powell
slavs are mongoloid steppe nomads BLEACHED by Based Germanics
Jaxon Rodriguez
It is hard to say because old sources are not reliable. Depending on the source, the same tribe could be described with a different name, making our early history very confusing.
It is said that Sarmatians came from modern Iran. Someone posted an image comparing Poles with people from Afghanistan and they looked like we were closely related to each other. WE are also super religious and stubborn, just like people from that area, but this has not been proved by any scientist.
Zachary Baker
>What are some notable slav interactions with the dominant forces in the years BC?
en.wikipedia.org
>Here Suebia ends. I do not know whether to class the tribes of the Peucini, Venedi, and Fenni with the Germans or with the Sarmatians. The Peucini, however, who are sometimes called Bastarnae, are like Germans in their language, manner of life, and mode of settlement and habitation. Squalor is universal among them and their nobles are indolent. Mixed marriages are giving them something of the repulsive appearance of the Sarmatians ... The Veneti have borrowed largely from Sarmatian ways; their plundering forays take them all over the wooded and mountainous country that rises between the Peucini and the Fenni. Nevertheless, they are to be classed as Germani, for they have settled houses, carry shields and are fond of travelling fast on foot; in all these respects they differ from the Sarmatians, who live in wagons or on horseback.[10]
Those people who embraced both Germanic and Sarmatian customs were obviously proto-Slavic. But no one in Rome paid attention to the language they spoke (especially that almost no one but few amber traders had contact with them).