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I understand that it's impossible to tell what Eastern Europe would look like without the Slavs, since they shaped it so much and history would be almost unrecogonizable without them - but that's not what I'm asking. What I am asking, is what ethnic groups would be present in Eastern Europe if the Slavic tribes hadn't shown up during the Migration period, and where they would most likely be?

I would assume that the Baltics might maintain a larger native area, as well as probably the Uralic peoples in general and the Finno-Ugric peoples in particular. Otherwise I could possibly see more Germanic/Gothic peoples, more Bulgars, Magyars, Tartars... generally I would imagine that the other ethnic groups present in the region would be more prolific than in OTL.

I wonder which would be the largest?
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