Wenedy and Carpathian region
Weneds (Wenedy) and Carpathian region: Ptolemaios mentions the Veneds / Vends / Wends (probably identical with the Slavs) as one of the big tribes living in Sarmatia, which included the northern Carpathians (known as the Sarmatian Mountains at that time). Therefore, they could not have originated from the supposed "ancient Slavs", the homeland of which is assumed to be behind the Carpathian Mountains, but was never found, and the search is still going on. Thus, the "ancient Slavs" never existed as an one ethnic group. However, the density of the names in question, which he designates as "Slav", is so great, that they under no circumstances could have been a legacy of the supposed sporadic Slav incursions and settlements in this territory.
Slavs or Slovenian or Slovans were part of Weneds -group of population with a common history, culture and similar languages or dialects was, and is an object of various speculations about the national appurtenance and the character of culture of the settlement. However, history gives evidence that as early as in 5th-7th centuries some tribes of region moving from Danube, Dniester, Prut and Black sea area especially under the pressure of raids of wild nomadic tribes.
SloVenians - SloVenieds - Wenedy too
sloVenieds, Slovieniens, Slovenians... Slovenians living mostly in Central Europe in their native independent land Slovenia (1,727,360), plus the Slovenians in Venetian Slovenia (Beneška Slovenija) in Italy (100,000), in Austrian Carinthia (avstrijska Koroška) in Austria (50,000)
Slovakia - Slovak Republic - Slovenska republika is a landlocked country in Central and Danubian Europe with a population of over five million
The Danube - Dunaj - Dunav
The Danube (Belarusian, Slovak and Polish - Dunaj; Old Norse Duná; Ancient Greek Istros - Istra; Slovenian Donava; Bulgarian,Croatian, Serbian - Dunav) is the longest river in the European Union.
It originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg rivers which join at the eponymously named German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows eastwards for a distance of some 2850 km (1771 miles), passing through several Central and Eastern European capitals, before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania and Ukraine.
Kopachki Rit (Kopački Tršćak) is a nature park in eastern Croatia. It is located northwest of the confluence of the Drava and the Danube, situated at the border with Serbia. It comprises many backwaters and ponds along the Danube. It is one of the most important, largest and most attractive preserved intact wetlands in Europe.
The vicinity of the big city of Osijek and its surroundings, as well as excellent communications (by road, railway, plane and ship) enable a high visiting rate. The beauty of "intact" nature, the multitude of waters, flora and fauna attract not only excursionists and visitors but also many experts and scientists from the whole of Europe.
A part of Kopački Rit has been designated as a special zoological reserve. Around 260 various bird species nest here (wild geese and ducks, Great White Egret, White Stork, Black Stork, White-tailed Eagle, crows, coots, gulls, terns, kingfishers, Green Woodpecker, etc.), and there are many other species using this area as a temporary shelter on migration from the northern, cooler regions to the southern, warmer areas and vice versa.
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Around 2300 bc new waves of migrating peoples arrived into Central Europe, probably from north of Black Sea.These so-called Indo-Europeans were the ancestors of the Germanic peoples who settled in northern and central Germany, and of the Baltic and Slavic - Venedic peoples in the east. But between Germanic peoples who settled in northern and south Germany were Veneds (Slavic) tribes too. Venden (Vienna) was in centre of Vendish tribes, and Venedy (Vends,Wendy) lived from Venden Lake (Boden Lake) to Montains Carpathians.
Veneds - right name of old Slavic tribes.
Ancestors of Croats and Belarusian (of tribe of Kryvits) are different parts of Kryw (Cryv) tribe, lived from Dubrovnik to Buda (modern Budapest) and Balaton, which lived together until V century between another Vened's tribes near Danube (Donau, Dunai). The north part of Kryvits (croat-cryvich tribe) had to migrate in north direction from beginning to end of V centuries because of attacks tribes from east. Under the migratory pressure of the Turkish Avars who were pushing westward, the neibours tribes - similar Kryvits and Slovenes - beginning around 570 AD - began large-scale migrations into the Balkans and modern Slovakia (Slovenska), Poland through Tatry.
There were several words used for referring to Belarusians and Belarus throughout the centuries. Perhaps, the oldest one, which surprisingly survived to the present time, is "Kryvichi". This was the name of one of the earliest Veneds tribes living on the territory of Belarus. In the 12th century its meaning was expanded to denote most of to-be-Belarusian tribes
Rus (Ros) is a word which was originally Swedish and meant tribe near Ros Lagen (Lake). The Vikings who set up colonies along the banks of the Dniepr River referred to themselves as Rus. This group gradually extended south toward and beyond Kiev and is today called the Kievan Rus:
"... Grand Prince of Kiev, Vladimir came together with team from Rus (vikings) to Constantinople (Byzantine) ..."
The word Rus appeared in Eastern Europe with advance of Varyagans(Scandinavians) to the south. Hence, in the 10th century the word was used to describe Scandinavian newcomers in contrast with Slavic people. After a number of Ukrainian tribes(e.g. Palyane) had been conquered by Scandinavians, they adopted the names of their victorers, and eventually word "Rusi" meant mainly inhabitants of Ukraine, which, consequently, was called "Rus". At the same time people living in the lands around Moscow were referred as Maskowci or Maskali. Similar derivatives were common for other principalities.
A wetland is an area of land whose soil is saturated with moisture either permanently or seasonally. Such areas may also be covered partially or completely by shallow pools of water. Wetlands include swamps, marshes, and bogs, among others. The water found in wetlands can be saltwater, freshwater, or brakish.
The year 1936 is considered as the date of the official start of nudism on the island of Rab when English king Edward VIII visited the island and received the permission of the Rab authorities to bathe naked with his wife in Kandarola Bay.
The White House in Washington is built of marble from the island of Brač.
The Dubrovnik Republic was the first state to recognise the independence of the United States of America.
Dubrovnik has the oldest Insurance Act in Europe, dating from the year 1395, three centuries the senior to that of Lloyd's, which was adopted at the beginning of the 17th century.
The Roman emperor Diocletian built a palace in Dalmatia in 305 A.D., which became the foundation of today’s city of Split, one of Croatia’s 7 monuments under UNESCO protection.
