1 definition by Jarema
In general, the Slavs are violent, and inclined to aggression. If not for the disharmony amongst them, caused by the multiplication of factions and by their fragmentation into clans, no people could mach their strength. They inhabit the richest limits of the lands suitable for settlement, and most plentiful in means of support. The Slavs possibly come from the near east, who were Sarmatian tribes such as Hrvati or Serboi. These tribes travlled to present day Poland and the Serb tribes settled on the lands of Germany Poland, while the Hrvati established a Chrobatian state in the area around Poland's Krakow. During the 6 or 7th century some of these peoples migrated to the south as an invitation from the Byzantine emperor to help him in his fight against the avars. The slavs would later join avars and harass the Byzantine empire as well. There are other theories on the origin of slavs anothe rone includes that the slavs come from the lands of the balkans linking the name of macedonia to "motherland" other theories include Slavs origins between the marshes of Poland-Belarus, or the area between the Wisla and Dniepr.
SLAVS: Russian, Belarussia(white russian), Ukrainian(Little russian), Poland, Lusatian Sorbia(area where serbs settled long ago, now eastern Germany) Czech, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia(& Hercegovina), Serbia (& Montenegro), Bulgaria and Macedonia.
by Jarema November 15, 2005