Slavic, Slav or Slavonic may refer to:
Peoples
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Slavic peoples, an ethno-linguistic group living in Europe and Asia
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East Slavic peoples
The East Slavs are the most populous subgroup of the Slavs. They speak the East Slavic languages, and formed the majority of the population of the medieval state Kievan Rus', which they claim as their cultural ancestor.John Channon & Robert Hud ...
, eastern group of Slavic peoples
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South Slavic peoples, southern group of Slavic peoples
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West Slavic peoples, western group of Slavic peoples
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Slavic Americans
Slavic Americans are Americans of Slavic descent.
East Slavic Americans
* Belarusian Americans
* Russian Americans
* Rusyn Americans
* Ukrainian Americans
South Slavic Americans
* Bosnian Americans
* Bulgarian Americans
* Croatian Ame ...
, Americans of Slavic descent
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Anti-Slavic sentiment, negative attitude towards Slavic peoples
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Pan-Slavic movement, movement in favor of Slavic cooperation and unity
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Slavic studies, a multidisciplinary field of studies focused on history and culture of Slavic peoples
Languages, alphabets, and names
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Slavic languages
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the ...
, a group of closely related Indo-European languages
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Proto-Slavic language, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages
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Old Church Slavonic, 9th century Slavic literary language, used for the purpose of evangelizing the Slavic peoples
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Church Slavonic, a written and spoken variant of Old Church Slavonic, standardized and widely adopted by Slavs in the Middle Ages, and became a liturgical language in many Eastern Orthodox churches
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Pan-Slavic language
A pan-Slavic language is a zonal auxiliary language for communication among the Slavic peoples.
There are approximately 400 million speakers of the Slavic languages. In order to communicate with each other, speakers of different Slavic languages ...
, artificially created languages intended to serve as a lingua franca for all Slavic peoples
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East Slavic languages
The East Slavic languages constitute one of three regional subgroups of the Slavic languages, distinct from the West and South Slavic languages. East Slavic languages are currently spoken natively throughout Eastern Europe, and eastwards to Siber ...
, modern languages of East Slavic peoples
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South Slavic languages, modern languages of South Slavic peoples
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West Slavic languages, modern languages of West Slavic peoples
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Slavic names, names originating from the Slavic languages
Mythology and faith
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Slavic mythology
Slavic mythology or Slavic religion is the religious beliefs, myths, and ritual practices of the Slavs before Christianisation, which occurred at various stages between the 8th and the 13th century. The South Slavs, who likely settled in the Balk ...
, the mythological aspect of the polytheistic religion that was practised by the Slavs before Christianisation
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Slavic dragon, mythological creature in ancient Slavic culture
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Slavic Native Faith
The Slavic Native Faith, commonly known as Rodnovery
* bg, Родноверие, translit=Rоdnoverie
* bs, Rodnovjerje
* mk, Родноверие, translit=Rodnoverie
* cz, Rodnověří
* hr, Rodnovjerje
* pl, Rodzimowierstwo; Rodzima ...
, modern form of ancient Slavic polytheism
Places
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Slav (village)
Slav ( he, שְׂלָו, ''lit.'' Quail) was a Jewish village and an Israeli settlement in the Gush Katif settlement bloc, located in the south-west edge of the Gaza Strip until 2005.
History
Slav was founded as a paramilitary Nahal settlement ...
, a former Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip
Other
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Slav Defense
The Slav Defense is a chess opening that begins with the moves:
:1. d4 d5
:2. c4 c6
The Slav is one of the primary defenses to the Queen's Gambit. Although it was analyzed as early as 1590, it was not until the 1920s that it started to be e ...
, a chess opening
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Slavic calendar, traditional Slavic calendar
See also
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Slavonian (disambiguation)
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Slavyansky (disambiguation)
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