Take this to the chief of the Slavs!

The East Slavs flooded Eastern Europe in two streams.

By the 8th century, the Slavs were the dominant ethnic group on the East European Plain.

During the truce with the Magyars, Henry subdued the Polabian Slavs, settling on the eastern border of his realm.

By excluding the Slavs who accounted for half the empire s population the Compromise was seen as a vehicle for German Magyar domination.

One source mentions 200 000 Slavs and 400 000 Hungarians, while other sources often don't give estimates for both, making comparison more difficult.

The reference to Dervan in 631 632 is also the first written confirmation of the presence of Slavs north of the Ore Mountains.

All attempts at modifying the arrangement stopped short of what was needed a political settlement between Germans and Slavs like that between Germans and Magyars.

By the end of the 6th century, Avars organized regular incursions into northern Bulgaria, which were a prelude to the en masse arrival of the Slavs.

In 1897, its population amounted to 2,989,482 people (41.7 per square kilometer) and consisted of 73.7 percent East Slavs (predominantly Ukrainians), 13.2 percent Jews, 6.2 percent Poles, and 5.7 percent Germans.

Later, with the development of feudal statehood, it became the title of a ruler of a state, and among East Slavs ( ( kniazhestvo ), ( kniazivstvo ) traditionally translated as duchy or principality), for example, of Kievan Rus'.

Due to the expulsion of the German residents after WW II and the persecution of Czech Slavs and Jews, the Czech Republic lost about 3 million inhabitants and in 1947 the population was only 8.8 million.

Much as Austria s alignment with Germany drove the Slavs to seek Russian patronage at the expense of imperial unity, European alignments with Russia drive the new members to seek US patronage at the expense of EU unity.

In the 13th century there was indeed a people called Wends or Vends living as far as northern Latvia around the city of Wenden and it is not known if they were indeed Slavs as their name suggests.

Another major issue of concern was the language of liturgy since the conversion of the Slavs by Cyril and Methodius in the previous century, the Slavic church was accustomed to use Slavonic rather than Latin for its church services.

With origins in the culture of the Proto Slavs, over time Polish culture has been profoundly influenced by its interweaving ties with the Germanic, Latinate and Byzantine worlds as well as in continual dialog with the many other ethnic groups and minorities living in Poland.

First, despite enjoying greater political inclusion than the Habsburg Slavs, many Central Europeans see themselves as lacking equal standing with the EU 15, both economically and strategically. The upshot may be a tendency for the new members to press their national interests more forcefully in EU fora.