Map of Slav tribes around A.D. 750
European Museums, National Museum In Warsaw, PolandMap of Slav tribes around A.D. 750
The time of transition from late antiquity to the Early Medieval Period was an age of great migrations across Europe known as the Migrations Period. The stage of history was entered by the Slavs. The earliest finds linked with this people dated to AD 400-500 originate from east central Europe (territory of modern Belarus and Ukraine).
In AD 500-700 Slavs spread to the south (to the Danube and later to the Balkans), west (to the Vistula, Odra and the Elbe) and to the south-west (to the territory of modern Czech Republic and Slovakia, and even the region on the upper Main River). In the east and north-east Slav expansion covered the outlying territory of Balt and Finno-Ugric tribes.
In Poland traces of the earliest stage of Slav culture, dated to the period AD 500-600, were discovered in the south (province of Matopolska), possibly in central Poland (Mazowsze) and in the west of Lower Silesia. Somewhat later sites of this culture are known from western and northern Poland (i.e., Wielkopolska and Pomorze).
Slav culture and language, although initially quite ho- mogeneous gradually grew different leading to the development of three branches of this people, at present known as Western, Eastern and Southern Slavs.
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