| Croats also began to look to Serbs and other southern Slavs as people with whom they shared a linguistic and cultural affinity. |
| In the late ninth century, Slavs and Magyars advanced westward along the Danube River valley and overran the area. |
| Thus Circassians, Albanians, Slavs, Greeks, Armenians and even Italians rose to occupy the highest offices of the Empire. |
| His language was very similar to the language of Slavs living around the town. |
| By the ninth century, Eastern Slavs began to settle in what are now the Ukraine, Belarus, and the Novgorod and Smolensk regions. |
| In the mid-nineteenth century, Bosnians joined Slavs from Serbia and Croatia in an uprising against the Turks. |
