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The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Northern Asia, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the Americas, Western Europe, and Northern Europe. alt=|thumb|Contemporary map of the Slavic people|Slavic speaking countries of [[Europe.
Slavs are groups of people who speak Slavic languages and are primarily found across Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe as well as parts of Northern Asia. They matter because they represent a major population across a large portion of Eurasia, with significant communities also living in various other regions around the world.
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- Ethnic group.group
- Slavs
- Ethnic group.population
- c. 300 million (2014)See
- Ethnic group.langs
- Slavic languages, local sign languages
- Ethnic group.rels
- Mostly Christianity(Eastern Orthodoxy Roman Catholicism Protestantism Spiritual Christianity) Minorities:Irreligious Islam Judaism Slavic paganism (neo-paganism)
- Ethnic group.related
- Other Indo-European-speaking peoples, especially Balts
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- Instance of
- indigenous people
- Subclass of
- Indo-European people
- Part of
- Indo-European people
- Has part
- Bavaria Slavica
- Native language
- Slavic
- Religion
- Slavic religion
- Population
- 300000000
- Image
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- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
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- Slavs
- studied by
- Slavic studies
- topic's main category
- Category:Slavs
- writing system
- Latin script
- language used
- Slavic
- indigenous to
- Eastern Europe
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- Y-DNA Haplogroup
- Haplogroup R-M420
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Ethnonym
- History
- Origins
- First mentions
- Migrations
- Middle Ages
- Modern era
- Languages
- Ethno-cultural subdivisions
- Genetics
- Religion
- Relations with non-Slavic people
- Population
- Historiography
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Citations
- Sources
- External links
The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Northern Asia, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the Americas, Western Europe, and Northern Europe. alt=|thumb|Contemporary map of the Slavic people|Slavic speaking countries of [[Europe.
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