East Slavs

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Slavic people ethnic group

The East Slavs are a major branch of the Slavic peoples from Eastern Europe, historically associated with the origins of the Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian nations.

Aliases (4)

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Slavic people → ethnic group →
ancestralTo	Belarusians → Russians → Ukrainians →
christianization	Christianization of Kievan Rus' →
culturalInfluence	Belarusian culture → Russian culture → Ukrainian culture →
culturalSphere	Eastern Orthodox Slavic culture →
demographicSignificance	largest branch of the Slavs by population →
ethnogenesis	formed from early Slavic tribes in Eastern Europe →
ethnolinguisticGroupOf	Eastern Europe →
historicalCenter	Kievan Rus' →
historicallyAssociatedWith	Belarusian people → Russian people → Ukrainian people →
historicalPeriod	Early Middle Ages → High Middle Ages →
historicalState	Grand Duchy of Lithuania → Grand Duchy of Moscow → Kievan Rus' →
languageBranch	East Slavic languages →
languageFamily	Slavic languages →
linguisticMembers	Belarusian language → Russian language → Ukrainian language →
majorModernStates	Belarus → Russia → Ukraine →
neighboringPeoples	Baltic peoples → Finno-Ugric peoples → Turkic peoples →
originatedIn	forest-steppe zone of Eastern Europe →
partOf	Slavic world →
region	Belarus → Eastern Europe → European part of Russia → Ukraine →
relatedGroup	South Slavs → West Slavs →
religion	Eastern Orthodoxy → Greek Catholicism →
subgroupOf	Indo-European peoples → Slavs →
traditionalReligion	Slavic paganism →
usesLanguage	East Slavic languages →
writingSystem	Cyrillic script →

Referenced by (18)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alexander Nevsky → Grand Duchy of Vladimir → Igor of Kiev → Sviatoslav I of Kiev → Vsevolod I of Kiev →	ethnicGroup
Kyivan Rus → Novgorod Republic →	ethnicComposition
Monomakhovichi → Yurievichi ("East Slavic") →	hasEthnicOrigin
Muscovy ("East Slavic world") → Novgorod Republic ("East Slavic world") →	locatedIn
Christianization of Kievan Rus' →	appliesToEthnicGroup
West Slavs →	distinguishedFrom
Olgovichi ("East Slavic") →	ethnicOrigin
Yurievichi ("Eastern Slavic world") →	hasCulturalSphere
Slavs →	hasSubdivision
Slavic cultural sphere ("East Slavic cultural sphere") →	hasSubregion
South Slavs →	relatedGroup