Editing Slavs (section)

==Ethno-cultural subdivisions==
[[West Slavs]] originate from early Slavic tribes which settled in [[Central Europe]] after the [[East Germanic tribes]] had left this area during the [[migration period]].<ref>{{cite book|last1= Kobyliński|first1= Zbigniew |chapter= The Slavs|editor1-last= McKitterick |editor1-first= Rosamond |editor1-link= Rosamond McKitterick |title= The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 1, c.500-c.700 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=JcmwuoTsKO0C |publisher= Cambridge University Press |page= 531|isbn= 978-0-521-36291-7 |year= 1995}}</ref> They are noted as having mixed with [[Germans|Germanics]], [[Hungarians]], [[Celts]] (particularly the [[Boii]]), [[Old Prussians]], and the [[Pannonian Avars]].<ref name="Stocki1950">{{cite book|author=Roman Smal Stocki |title=Slavs and Teutons: The Oldest Germanic-Slavic Relations |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VM0KAQAAIAAJ |year=1950 |publisher=Bruce}}</ref> The West Slavs came under the influence of the [[Western Roman Empire]] (Latin) and of the [[Catholic Church]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2022}}

[[East Slavs]] have origins in early Slavic tribes who mixed and contacted with [[Finnic peoples|Finns]], [[Balts]]<ref name="ZickelDivision1991">{{cite book|author1=Raymond E. Zickel|author2=Library of Congress. Federal Research Division|title=Soviet Union: A Country Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TnYsAAAAYAAJ|date=1 December 1991|publisher=Federal Research Division, Library of Congress|isbn=978-0-8444-0727-2|page=138}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Comparative Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yTAkDMtho0sC&pg=PA182|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=978-81-317-6033-8|pages=182–}}</ref> and with the remnants of the people of the [[Goths]].<ref>[https://www.academia.edu/98572077 Tarasov I.M. On the Mention of the Dnieper Varangians in the Context of the Legend of the Beginning of Kiev. 2023. P. 59–60]</ref> Their early Slavic component, [[Antes people|Antes]], mixed or absorbed [[Iranian peoples|Iranians]], and later received influence from the [[Khazars]] and [[Vikings]].{{sfn|Vlasto|1970|p=237}} The East Slavs trace their national origins to the tribal unions of [[Kievan Rus']] and [[Rus' Khaganate]], beginning in the 10th century. They came particularly under the influence of the [[Byzantine Empire]] and of the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2022}}

[[South Slavs]] from most of the region have origins in early Slavic tribes who mixed with the local Proto-Balkanic tribes ([[Illyrian tribes|Illyrian]], [[Dacian tribes|Dacian]], [[Thracian tribes|Thracian]], [[Paeonian tribes|Paeonian]], [[Hellenic tribes]]), and [[Celtic tribes]] (particularly the [[Scordisci]]), as well as with Romans (and the Romanized remnants of the former groups), and also with remnants of temporarily settled invading East Germanic, Asiatic or Caucasian tribes such as [[Gepids]], [[Huns]], [[Avars (Carpathians)|Avars]], Goths and [[Bulgars]].{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} The original inhabitants of present-day Slovenia and continental Croatia have origins in early Slavic tribes who mixed with Romans and romanized Celtic and Illyrian people as well as with Avars and Germanic peoples (Lombards and East Goths). The South Slavs (except the Slovenes and Croats) came under the cultural sphere of the [[Eastern Roman Empire]] (Byzantine Empire), of the [[Ottoman Empire]] and of the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] and [[Islam]], while the Slovenes and the Croats were influenced by the [[Western Roman Empire]] (Latin) and thus by the [[Catholic Church]] in a similar fashion to that of the West Slavs.{{Citation needed|date=April 2022}}