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Gavrilo Princip was a Serbian nationalist. He was born in 1895 at Bosnia and died in 1918. A member of the Serbian secret organisation the 'Black Hand' he was dedicated to independence for the South Slav people from the Austro-Hungarian empire, and to this end on the 28th of June 1914 he assassinated Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke of Austria, and his wife Sophie while they were visiting Sarajevo.
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Pavel Josef Savarik was a Slovak philologist. He was born in 1795 at Kobeliarov, Hungary and died in 1861 at Prague. He was a leading figure of the Czech national revival and a pioneer of Slavonic philology and archaeology. He was director of the Serbian Orthodox grammar school at Novi Sad before settling in Prague in 1833. In 1841 he turned down an invitation to occupy the chair of Slavonic philology at Berlin, preferring to remain a private scholar in his own country, researching and writing about the history and languages of the Slav people.
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The Slavs are an imaginary grouping of different Indo-European peoples in central and east Europe, the Balkans, and parts of north Asia, who happen to speak closely related Slavonic languages, these include the Venedae, Bulgars and Serbs. There is no homogenous Slav race. The ancestors of the 'Slavs' are believed to have included the Sarmatians and Scythians. Moving west from Central Asia, they settled in east and south east Europe during the 2nd and 3rd millennia BC.
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In Slav mythology, Byelobog was the White god who fought and was balanced by the Black god Chernobog.
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In Slav mythology, Chernobog was the Black god of death, the adversary of the White god Byelobog.
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In Slav mythology, Mokosh or Makosh was a goddess of fertility widely worshipped north of the Black Sea. She made sure that semen was rich in sperm, and protected women and lambs during birth. With the encroachment of Christianity, her functions were passed to the Virgin Mary.
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In Slav mythology, a Vampire is a nocturnal demon. It is manifested in various forms, the most usual being that of the spirit of the recently dead, or a demon occupying the dead body, returning to suck the blood of the living. Examination of a body thus demonstrating its vampirism would reveal a fresh, ruddy colour and the suppleness of life. The ways of destroying the vampire were either to drive a stake through the body, or to decapitate and burn it. South-east Europe is particularly rich in vampire legends, but the belief is widespread. Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, published in 1897, is an effective rendering of the legend.
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A sarafan is a full, Slav woman's dress with shoulder straps.
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Kashoubish is a Slav dialect.
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