Excerpt from The Slavs: Past and Present Poland). Some of them, starting from that original seat, went south and Occupied what is now Hungary and thence went far into the Balkan peninsula. Others went west, far beyond the territory in which stands Berlin - no Germans were there at that and east. The original Slavs were, Of course, not a civilized group of tribes. They were barbarians, just as their west ern neighbors, the Germans, were. The Germans occupied the Roman Empire, destroyed it, took over some rudiments of what ...
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Excerpt from The Slavs: Past and Present Poland). Some of them, starting from that original seat, went south and Occupied what is now Hungary and thence went far into the Balkan peninsula. Others went west, far beyond the territory in which stands Berlin - no Germans were there at that and east. The original Slavs were, Of course, not a civilized group of tribes. They were barbarians, just as their west ern neighbors, the Germans, were. The Germans occupied the Roman Empire, destroyed it, took over some rudiments of what they allowed to survive of Roman civilization, and at the same time began to press the Slavs back. They sub dued the outlying Slav countries and turned the population mostly into slaves. Then a German Roman Empire was created, and on its eastern outskirts were formed marches with the special object of fighting the Slavs. On the other hand, from Scandinavia the Vikings were making their way into Russia, while from the east Mongolic invaders, Bulgars and Magyars (the modern Hungarians) were at tacking the southern Slavs, the Magyars conquering Hun gary while the Bulgars subdued some of the Balkan Slavs (seventh century The Magyars extirpated some of the Slavs they conquered and turned others into a subject population (ninth and tenth centuries While those unfortunate victims have kept their Slavic tongue, the Mag yars have stuck to their own language, which they still speak today. The Bulgars accepted the language of the conquered tribes and both groups came finally to form one nation partly of Mongolic, partly of Slavic, descent, but speaking a Slav tongue. Similar was the history of the Vikings in Russia. They organized the country into what we might call a political unit (ninth century). The organ ization was Norse, the bulk of the people Slavic, the lan guage of the whole was Slavic - Russian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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