Text, Map of Slav tribes around A.D. 750

European Museums, National Museum In Warsaw, Poland

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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.

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Map of Slav tribes around A.D. 750

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