The world of the ancient Slavs
By: Zdenek Vana ; photographs by Pavel Vacha ; illustrations by Pavel Major.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Detroit, MI
Language: eng; cze
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780814317488
Subjects: Slavs -- History.; Slavic antiquities.; Europe, Eastern -- Antiquities.
Description: 240 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Notes: Translation of : Svet davnych Slovanu (Artia, Praha, 1983)

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Table of contents: title: Foreword … 7; title: ◦; title: SEARCHING FOR THE ORIGIN OF THE SLAVS; title: The Oldest Written Records … 9; title: What Philology Can Prove … 15; title: What Archeology Has Revealed … 18; title: When Did the Emergence of the Slavs Take Place? … 24; title: ◦; title: THE GREAT EXPANSION BEGINS; title: The Settlement of Central Europe … 29; title: The Advance into the Balkans … 38; title: Slav Colonization of Eastern Europe … 45; title: ◦; title: BETWEEN THE FRANKISH AND BYZANTINE EMPIRES AND THE NOMADS; title: The Slavs and the Nomad Tribes … 53; title: The Pressure of the Great Powers and the First Organized States … 66; title: ◦; title: GODS, DEMONS AND SHRINES; title: The Religious Ideas of the Slavs … 83; title: Temples, Idols and Cults … 91; title: ◦; title: A MAJOR MILESTONE IN DEVELOPMENT; title: The Great Moravian Empire and its Centres … 105; title: Pribina's Principality at Nitra and Mosapurc … 119; title: The Croats and Serbs, their Political and Cultural Emergence … 125; title: The First Bulgarian Empire … 131; title: The Early History of Kievan Russia … 139; title: ◦; title: PEASANTS, CRAFTSMEN, MERCHANTS AND WARRIORS; title: Peasants … 151; title: Crafts and Trade … 155; title: Warriors … 166; title: ◦; title: THE CZECHS AND THE POLES — ORIENTATION TOWARDS THE WEST; title: The Bohemian State of the Přemyslids — the Heir to the Great Moravian Empire … 174; title: The Piast State in Poland … 193; title: ◦; title: THE TRAGEDY OF THE NORTH-WESTERN SLAVS; title: The Lusatian Centre at Tornow … 213; title: Timber Fortresses in Mecklenburg … 220; title: Seafarers and Pirates in the Baltic Sea … 228; title: ◦; title: Conclusion … 234; title: Bibliography … 235; title: Index … 236