South Slavs

E63914

Slavic peoples ethnolinguistic group

South Slavs are a group of Slavic peoples primarily inhabiting the Balkans, including nations such as Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, Slovenes, Macedonians, Montenegrins, and Bulgarians, who share related South Slavic languages and cultural traditions.

Aliases (3)

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Slavic peoples → ethnolinguistic group →
continent	Europe →
culturalRegion	Southeast Europe →
culturalTraditions	Slava (patron saint celebration) → guslar epic singing → kolo (circle dance) →
demographicFeature	concentrated in the former Yugoslav republics and Bulgaria →
ethnogenesisInfluences	Slavic tribes → pre-Slavic Balkan populations →
historicalMigration	Slavic expansion to the Balkans →
historicalPeriodOfFormation	Early Middle Ages →
historicalRegion	Austro-Hungarian Empire NERFINISHED → Ottoman Empire → Yugoslavia →
includesEthnicGroup	Bosniaks → Bulgarians → Croats → Macedonians → Montenegrins → Serbs → Slovenes →
languageBranch	Slavic languages →
languageFamily	Indo-European languages → South Slavic languages →
majorLanguageGroup	Bulgarian → Macedonian → Serbo-Croatian → Slovene →
modernStatePresence	Bosnia and Herzegovina → Bulgaria → Croatia → Kosovo → Montenegro → North Macedonia → Serbia → Slovenia →
primaryRegion	Balkans →
relatedGroup	East Slavs → West Slavs →
religion	Eastern Orthodoxy → Roman Catholicism → Sunni Islam →
subclassOf	Indo-European peoples → Slavs →
writingSystem	Cyrillic alphabet → Latin alphabet →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
West Slavs →	distinguishedFrom
Christianization of the Balkans ("Slavic Balkans") →	hasMainRegion
Slavs →	hasSubdivision
Slavic cultural sphere ("South Slavic cultural sphere") →	hasSubregion
Montenegrins ("South Slavic peoples") →	partOf
East Slavs →	relatedGroup