Slavicisation
or Slavicization, is the acculturation of something Slavic into a non-Slavic culture, cuisine, region, or nation. To a lesser degree, it also means acculturation or adoption of something non-Slavic into
Slavic culture or terms. The process can either be voluntary or applied through varying degrees of pressure.
The term can also refer to the historical
Slavic migrations to the Balkans which gradually Slavicized large areas previously inhabited by other ethnic peoples.
After historic
ethnogenesis
Ethnogenesis (; ) is "the formation and development of an ethnic group".
This can originate by group self-identification or by outside identification.
The term ''ethnogenesis'' was originally a mid-19th century neologism that was later introd ...
and distinct nationalisation, ten main subsets of the process apply in modern times:
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Belarusization
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Bosniakisation
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Bulgarisation
Bulgarisation ( bg, българизация), also known as Bulgarianisation ( bg, побългаряване) is the spread of Bulgarian culture beyond the Bulgarian ethnic space.
History
A number of government policies are considered to be exa ...
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Croatisation
Croatisation or Croatization ( hr, kroatizacija, or ''pohrvaćenje''; it, croatizzazione; sr, хрватизација / ''hrvatizacija'' or похрваћење / ''pohrvaćenje'') is a process of cultural assimilation, and its consequences, ...
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Czechization
Czechization or Czechisation ( cs, čechizace, počeštění; german: Tschechisierung) is a cultural change in which something ethnically non-Czech is made to become Czech.
This concept is especially relevant in relation to the Germans of Bohemia ...
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Polonization
Polonization (or Polonisation; pl, polonizacja)In Polish historiography, particularly pre-WWII (e.g., L. Wasilewski. As noted in Смалянчук А. Ф. (Smalyanchuk 2001) Паміж краёвасцю і нацыянальнай ідэя� ...
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Russification
Russification (russian: русификация, rusifikatsiya), or Russianization, is a form of cultural assimilation in which non-Russians, whether involuntarily or voluntarily, give up their culture and language in favor of the Russian cult ...
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Serbianisation
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Slovakization
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Ukrainization
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Macedonization
See also
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Hellenization
Hellenization (other British spelling Hellenisation) or Hellenism is the adoption of Greek culture, religion, language and identity by non-Greeks. In the ancient period, colonization often led to the Hellenization of indigenous peoples; in the ...
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Pan-Slavism
Cultural assimilation
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