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To: roving

It’s how eastern Europeans became known as “slavs”.


22 posted on 06/13/2025 8:55:36 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need ofand thhere we CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5
The Roman term for "slave" was servus (fem. serva). The term slave originated because in the Middle Ages so many Slavs were enslaved. But the people who speak Slavic languages today are descended from the people who did not get taken away by the slave traders.
23 posted on 06/13/2025 9:02:00 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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