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Teutons and Slavs IX-XI centuries

in historical science dominates strange view of the alleged original feud between Germans and Slavs, including the era of pre-and early-state of existence IX-XI centuries, from which proisteklo even more strange at first opinion their superiority over the latter.

Meanwhile, all evidence suggests otherwise.

First, there was no how-German and Slavic unity and acc. identity. This is especially true of so-called eastern Slavs , representing more purely technical phantom invented by historians of modern times to refer to population of eastern European Slavic origin or oslavyanennogo in V - XI centuries. because there were four waves of migration from east to west - the first in the VI century BC upper and middle Volga was isolated invasion of Avars and apparently its descendants speak Arabic sources IX-XI centuries. The second - from the end of VII to VIII century, the third - the entire IX Pressure francs. It is this wave has caused the emergence of Russian state from the eastern Baltic to the northern Black Sea region, retain close ties the western and central Europe.

Secondly, the nature of alliances and alliances in the southern Baltic at that time does not have an explicit ethnic accent - It is usually multiethnic alliances against the barbarians kindred barbarians, but more often against the common enemy - the Carolingian Empire, and behind it in Rome. Fall Carolingian dynasty in the X century paved the power francs and German Empire influences from East and relaxed on the relations between them and poluvarvarami as Germans, and the Slavs in the Saxon and Salic dynasties until the end of Xi century. If Salic dynasty war begins in Rome and the Empire, the expression of which was the opposition Guelph and gibbelinov and the Crusades, which led to the XII-XIII centuries, the new pressure at all are outside the rule of Rome. The latter circumstance led the fourth wave of migration to the east and marks the real antagonism is a German-Roman Catholic Empire and semi-Arian and the Orthodox Slavs. However, the latter has become politically relevant only after the Reformation to the design ideology of pan-Germanism in the XVII-XVIII centuries.