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slavs

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These were Slavs, whether originally Croat or Serb, who had been converted to Islam in the late Middle Ages by the Turkish occupiers and whose religion gradually became synonymous with their ethnic identity.

Elijah, in Bulgarian Orthodox tradition, is a transmuted version of Perun, a pagan god of lightning and stormy heavens, to whom the pre-Christian Slavs sacrificed bulls and human beings.

Byzantines, Visigoths, the Huns under Attila, Avars, Gepidae, Slavs, Bulgars, Hungarians, Tartars, Turks, and various others all invaded.

To these Greeks, all Slavs who called themselves "Macedonian" were "dirty Gypsies.

The Lombards then migrated into Italy, while Avars and Slavs filled in their former territories.

Meanwhile the Slavs were raiding and looting Byzantine settlements in the Balkans, north of modern Greece, so the Roman emperor persuaded Bayan to march against his sometime allies.

The Avars were horsemen, and the Slavs, fighting on foot, could not match them.

It was not a situation the Slavs enjoyed, in the early seventh century.

The Slavs suffered from the same problem as always: they could agree on no single one of them to govern others for more than a single battle.

But their contempt nevertheless betrayed them, because they allowed the Slavs to select the battle site.

In the sixth century a motley crowd of Longobards and Saxons and Slavs and Avars invaded Italy, destroyed the Gothic kingdom, and established a new state of which Pavia became the capital.

The Lombards and Saxons and Slavs who succeeded the Goths were weak and backward tribes.

The eastern frontier (defenceless except for the short stretch of the Carpathian mountains) was at the mercy of hordes of Huns, Hungarians, Slavs and Tartars.

The Greeks had sometimes met these Slavs and a few travellers of the third and fourth centuries mention them.

They had conquered many lands from the heathenish Slavs and Lithuanians who were living in the plain between the Baltic Sea and the Carpathian Mountains, and the Franks administered those outlying districts just as the United States used to administer her territories before they achieved the dignity of statehood.