Settling ancient Slavs is one of the most important processes in the evolution of civilization, geopolitical and ethnic processes in medieval Europe.Slavs emerged as an independent ethnic group among the Indo-European peoples about the I millennium BC.e.Several waves of the Great Migration, mass migrations at the beginning of the I millennium BC also provoked mobility Slav elements.Some tribes take an active part in the mass migrations.In V-VI centuries settlement of the Slavs it is rapidly becoming a broader framework.During this period they appear in the Balkans, the Baltic, in Moravia, are moving in the Central Russian plain steppe to the east.Such a scattered settlement of the Slavs provokes their separation in the middle of I millennium BC into three major branches: the western, southern and eastern.
Southern Slavs
This branch represents the families of the Macedonians, Montenegrins, Bulgarians and Slovenians.Their shelter has become the Balkan Peninsula, on which they were settled in V-VI centuries BC.In addition to the actual peninsula, the southern Slavs and occupied part of the surrounding regions.By the time the final settling of them in the area of the Balkans, they were already at the stage of decomposition tribal community and were ready to form the first political formations.Their first full state was perhaps Sklave that emerged in the VII century and existed with respect to X. The descendants of these nations are the modern Macedonians, Serbs, Croats, Montenegrins, Bosnians, Slovenes and partially.
western Slavs
settlement of the Slavs of this branch took place in the same period.However, they were moving in a different, more northerly direction than the Slovenes and Bulgarians.This group of people who gave the world modern Poles, Czechs and Slovaks (and a number of ethnic groups, were not able to evolve into full-fledged nations Sorbs, Silesians, Kashubians) settled in vast areas of the Vistula River and up to the banks of the River Elbe.It should also be members of this branch were found by archaeologists in the Baltic States.This branch of the Slavs was in the middle of I millennium BC at about the same level of development with the South, which allowed them already in the VII century to create their first state in what is now the Czech Republic.
settlement of the Slavs of Eastern
This significant group took extensive East European Plain.In V-VI centuries here only decomposed primitive society.In addition, the Eastern Slavs were not in close proximity to the highly developed nations, which would stimulate the emergence here of political entities.How to demonstrate any corresponding card, resettlement of the eastern Slavs occurred mostly in the northern Black Sea coast, in the basin of the Dnieper, Pripyat, the Dvina, Bug, Dniester, Diet, and Sula others.Then they moved further north, pushing their rivals medieval - finougorskie tribes.From the VII century AD Eastern Slavs begin to unite in large-scale tribal alliances.Such an alliance could include hundreds of tribes united around one of the most powerful tribe.Their first significant political education has become one of the most powerful medieval states.This, of course, of the Kievan Rus.
