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Originally Posted by M.R.
You have some sources for that?
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"In the time of Justianian
(6th century, comment by Marulus), the Slavs appear for the first time unfder their own name, "Sclavenes", in Procopius (Byzantine historian from the 6th century)."
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An detailed account of the earliest mentions of Slavs in the Byzantine chronicles, along with different theories of the origin of the name
Slav, can be found
here. (It is in German, I was unable to find anything in English)
"The Slavs increasingly populated the Balkans and formed their own districts, known as "Sclavinia", as far as the Peloponnesus."
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Quote:
Originally Posted by M.R.
Yeah, I heard that, but you rather believe that is of Greek-Byzantine origin right?
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No, I don't. It is only that the form
sklav, with a k inside, is the Greek adaptation of the original Slavic name, because Greek does not tolerate the consonant group
sl in the beginning of the word.
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Originally Posted by M.R.
I don't believe it, actualy the word 'Slavic' is a very recent invention and it derives from the actual Slovenic race (central European Slavs if you want). But ok, maybe the term was used to describe Czechs as well (they were part of Sloveni union too and part of 'Slovenic race') or 'other Slavs' if you want. Again, I might be wrong here again, but I have yet to see this term describing other Slavs before 18th century. The term Sclauinia derives from times of early Carantania, which was also described as such ("Sclaunia") by historians.
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It was sometimes used to name Poles as well, Russians very rarely.