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  • 19 - The Slavs

  • from PART II - THE SEVENTH CENTURY
  • Edited by Paul Fouracre, University of Manchester
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge Medieval History
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    08 December 2005, pp 524-544

  • Summary

    The earliest description of the Slavs comes from De Bellis, work of Procopius, which was written just before the middle of the sixth century. The origin of the Slavs has given great weight to linguistic arguments. Linguists seeking the original homeland of the Slavs have attempted to define the chronology of the processes on the basis of philological arguments, and to identify the place of origin of the Proto-Slavic language. Three archaeological cultures, the Penkovka, Prague and Kolochin Cultures, occupied an extensive area from the Dnepr valley in the east to the eastern Carpathians in the west, denoting the area occupied by the Slavic ethnic group in the fifth and the sixth centuries. At the end of the sixth and beginning of the seventh century the Carantanian Slavs were dependent on the Avars, but this dependence was weaker than that of the tribes inhabiting the Carpathian basin.