Origin of the Slavic People DOCUMENTARY

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Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the Ancient Civilizations continues with an episode on the origin of the Slavic peoples. This video explores the fascinating history of the Slavic people, uncovering their mysterious origins and tracing their migration across Europe. Beginning with the Introduction: Origins of the Slavs, we set the stage for the journey into a time before nations like Russia, Poland, or Bohemia existed. In Challenges in Tracing Slavic Origins, we examine the difficulties historians face due to the lack of primary Slavic sources, relying instead on external accounts and sparse archaeological evidence. The video then explores various theories about their homeland in Theories of the Slavic Homeland, looking at regions like Polesia, the Kyiv culture, and the Prague culture. Next, Early Historical Mentions: Veneti and Antes delves into Roman and Byzantine records that describe early Slavic tribes. We continue with Slavic Migrations and Influences, detailing their spread across Europe and cultural interactions. Finally, The Making of the Slavs and Identity examines modern theories on their ethnogenesis and the fluidity of their early identities.

00:00 - Introduction: Origins of the Slavs
01:53 - Theories of the Slavic Homeland
03:43 - Early Historical Mentions: Veneti and Antes
06:40 - Slavic Migrations and Influences
10:48 - The Making of the Slavs and Identity
14:48 - Conclusion: Legacy of the Slavs

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The lingiustic similarities are still huge - even after 2000 years.

danieldpa

For me as a person who understands 5 Slavic languages and speaks 2 of them it is obvious that there was one group of people which all Slavs have as ancestors. The name "Slavs", originally "Slovene", comes from the word "slovo" which means "word". Slovene wasn't the name of ethnic group or nation but simply a word for all peoples who spoke comprehendible language. For example Germans in all languages I understand are called like in Ukrainian "Nimtsi", which literally means "deaf people", in other words people who do not speak "slovo" - comprehendable language.

volodymyr

In Polish slavs are "słowianie" from "słowo" - word. Germans are called "niemcy" from "niemy" - mute, unable to speak. This means that slavic identity is old and based on the language itself. It's hard to believe that slavs accepted not only their identity from outside, but also named their speech based on that.

NeoShaman

Hard times create hard Slavs.

Hard Slavs create hard times.

Hard times create hard Slavs.

bilicadnan

How one can even assume "Slav" or "Sloven" or "Slovyanin" is a exonym is beyond me.

MiilosVarcakovic

"Slav" is not an exonym, Sclaveni is rather an amalgamation of "Sloveni", as Slavic people call themselves to this day, regardless be they East, West or South Slavs. It also matches general Slavic wording for "slava" (glory, celebration), "slovo" (letter, speech), or even "Slava", a holiday celebrating ancestors that persisted throughout time amongst some South-Slavic communities. It is believed that Slava (holiday, celebration) adjusted to Christianity, from earlier pre-Christian protector gods, i.e. St.Elijah/Sv.Ilija (from Perun). Take for example names of earliest known Slavic rulers - they often contain suffix of "-slav" (alongside "-mir" and "-ic" which are also shared with some Ostrogoths). It's silly thinking people would call themselves by what their enemies called them, a pejorative. It is much more likely that their names derived from their own language, as is still case today, and unlike Greek and Roman sources, those names have a meaning in the Slavic languages.

Entire theory proposing that name Sloveni is an exonym is beyond shameful and far-fetched.

Stargazerm

Greetings from Czech republic as a Slavic nation.

titanirael

I always find it funny how we put certain cultures and political entities on maps, even though there are no descendants of them. Then we call them by latin or names given by archaeologists. We find it so easy to say that all roman languages are part of the same group due to their history under the Roman Empire.

Yet, we will say that Slavic cultures are created despite having millions of people who speak basically the same or very similar languages, or who have similar beliefs that are dated for centuries.

Just because there was the Avar kingdom, it doesn’t mean only they lived on that territory. They were nomadic conquerors who moved around all the time, so it was easy to have someone “under them”. Also, people so easily miss the obvious part of having the same territory under so many different rulers.. so what makes it impossible to have proto-Slavs to live there?

They might have lived in smaller communities while the rulers came and went, in the end by the historians they “disappeared” while Slavs stayed.

To me, it’s most likely the Slavic people were always there in majority, but under many different rulers. These rulers would then just like Bulgarians assimilate and take the language. So basically its not like they came out of nowhere, nor the others just disappeared… the societies are mix of everything!

In the end, word Slav comes from a word meaning - “word”. Basically creating the “us” (who understand each other) vs the “others” (for example, Germans are called “Nijemci/Nemci” meaning people who don’t speak).

So basically the language has its origin and was the connection between people regardless of their rulers. And it stays as present as it was before, despite any other differences modern countries might have 😊

DrBozaChaos

"For people lining in that time no such identity existed“. I disagree, because almost all Slavs, from east to west and south, to this day call Germans - Niemci, which means mutes, and word „Slav“ itself hails not from „Sclaveni“, but from slovo – word. Ancient Slavic peoples identified themselves as „speakers of words“, while Germans were „mutes“ their words did not make any sense to Slavs thus Germans sounded to them like „mutes“, much like Greeks considered anyone who does not speak Greek language a „barbar“ian. Most likely shared identity of such „speakers of words“ existed, then byzantine Greeks modified their word slovo-slava into sclava and that is how Sclavenians became used in Greek bureaucracy.

liveforever

As a ukrainian I want to say thanks you, Kings and Generals! Also I want to ask you to make a video about Avars - who are they, where did they come from and how disappeared?

hennadiiheniuk

the most anti-Slavic video I have ever seen! Languages of Slavs are today so simmilar! To speak about Slavic origin, without having in mind that Protoslavs were speaking one language, is nonsense

goranvlnikolic

Slavic languages are mostly mutually intelligible even after 1500 years of spreading thousands of kilometers away from each other and being isolated in different empires, by mountains, etc. We can see the language similarities between regions. In Eastern Slovakia, dialects slowly turn into Rusyn that slowly turns into Western Ukrainian dialects. Slovene and northern Serbo-Croatian dialects have more similarities with Czech and Slovak while Bulgarian is similar to East-Slavic languages.
Also it's almost certain that Slavs lived as uniformed culture with little distinctions. Hunnic invasion into Europe caused Germanic tribes to move into collapsing Western Roman Empire, leaving Eastern and Central Europe almost deserted while Slavic tribes lived in isolation for over 7 generations. That's why Slavic tribes were known for being good agriculturalist - because they had to occupy small overcrowded space full of marches and forests. Once Hunnic Empire collapsed, they just stormed in every direction because there was nothing stopping them. Germanic tribes fought for remnants of Rome and probably had no reason to return into Eastern Europe.
This could be said in the video.
All this video said is that nobody knows anything and that's it.
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adamsevcik