The early Slavs were a diverse group of tribal societies who lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages (approximately the 5th to the 10th centuries AD) in Central and Eastern Europe and established the foundations for the Slavic nations through the Slavic states of the High Middle Ages. The Slavs' original homeland is still a matter of debate due to a lack of …

The Slavic migrations to the Balkans began in the mid-6th century and first decades of the 7th century in the Early Middle Ages.The rapid demographic spread of the Slavs was followed by a population exchange, mixing and language shift to and from Slavic.The settlement was facilitated by the substantial decrease of the Balkan population during the Plague of Justinian.

The Slavs are an Eastern European civilization introduced in Age of Empires II HD: The Forgotten based on various Rus principalities and city-states in western Russia, modern day Ukraine, and Belarus. They focus on infantry and siege weapons, with a solid economy on their farms and great cavalry, but lack key upgrades for their defenses, navy, and archers. The Slavs in-game …

The Scythians or Scyths, and sometimes also referred to as the Classical Scythians and the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranian equestrian nomadic people who had migrated from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia from approximately the 7th century BC until the 3rd century BC.. Skilled in mounted warfare, the …

In Russia, the notion of a continuity between Scythians and Slavs was extremely popular starting in the 17th century. Direct references to it occur in historian Andrey Lyzlov’s ‘History of the ...

Veneti / Sporoi (common ancestors of all Slavs, Proto-Slavs, and the West Slavs with the same name). It is hypothesized that Proto-Slavs had their origin in western Ukraine - west of the Dnieper, east of the Vistula, south of the Pripyat Marshes and north of the Carpathian Mountains and the Dniester, to the northwest of the Pontic Eurasian Steppes and south of the Baltic …

The Indo-European migrations were hypothesized migrations of Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) speakers, and subsequent migrations of people speaking derived Indo-European languages, which took place approx. 4000 to 1000 BCE, potentially explaining how these languages came to be spoken across a large area of Eurasia, from India and Iran, to Europe. ...

The geography of Ukraine varies greatly from one region of the country to another, with the majority of the country lying within the East European Plain. Ukraine is the second-largest European country, after Russia.Its various regions have diverse geographic features ranging from highlands to lowlands, as well as climatic range and a wide variety in hydrography.

The Alans (Latin: Alani) were an ancient and medieval Iranian nomadic pastoral people of the North Caucasus – generally regarded as part of the Sarmatians, and possibly related to the Massagetae. Modern historians have connected the Alans with the Central Asian Yancai of Chinese sources and with the Aorsi of Roman sources. Having migrated westwards and …

The Scythian languages (/ ˈ s ɪ θ i ə n / or / ˈ s ɪ ð i ə n / or / ˈ s k ɪ θ i ə n /) are a group of Eastern Iranian languages of the classical and late antique period (the Middle Iranian period), spoken in a vast region of Eurasia by the populations belonging to the Scythian cultures and their descendants. The dominant ethnic groups among the Scythian-speakers were nomadic ...