Slav

The nation's history began with that of the East Slavs.

To the south, there are fellow Slavs and Orthodox Christians in the Balkans to be incorporated into a Greater Russian empire.

China is the only candidate for common enemy capable of appealing to both Slavs and Kazakhs.

Backed by Slav Russia, Serbia saw herself as the only independent hope for Slavs living under foreign rule in the Balkans.

Up until the 19th century, the custom of burning the Yule log flourished in England, France, Germany and among the South Slavs .

The Serbs, Croats and Bosnian Muslims of Yugoslavia thought of them as haughty and uptight, without the relaxed charm of other Balkan Slavs.

They see themselves as a Latin outpost in a sea of Slavs. Their language is linked to Italian and French.

Ancient chronicles, epics and medieval foreign writers' notes bear all evidence that the Slavs were extremely fond of music.

Both Belorussian and Russian originated from East Slavs, they shared the same religion, doctrine, culture and history.

The Catholic Lithuanians were beyond the pale as Slavs , as far as Himmler was concerned, so they languished in special police battalions.

Nazi ideology saw non-Aryan races as inferior to Germans and consigned Europe's Slavs and Jews to servitude or extermination.

Argentinians, Germans and Slavs found in Lincoln a supreme model of robustness in defending national unity.

Then gradually absorb some of Frisbie and Slavs , in the 10 to the 11th century form a unified national Denmark.

So where did the South Slavs really come from?

The third big "family" in Europe are the Slavs , of whom the most important are the Russians.