Definition of Slavs: An Historical People

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Slavs - of Central Eastern Europe - The Slavs were a central European people who eventually migrated and separated into three groups: western, southern, and eastern Slavs. The Germans felt it was important for them to convert the Slavs to Christianity and expended great effort in doing so, c. 1000 CE. The Polish, Czech and Hungarian Slavs accepted Catholic Christianity while the Eastern Slavs gravitated toward Eastern Orthodoxy. people

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John Cairns 2009-03-28