What's the source for those Cyrillic maps?
Do you want to detailize the TL. It is not so much of a bulgaro-wank as it seems.
I was actually planning on this happening in my timeline. With the Lombards forced into the Carpathian Basin by the Romans, the Slavs are funneled west all the way to France.
That would be interesting.
I would like to know (for my TL) what the cultural differences where and iff there where cultural comparrisons.
I know plenty about germanic culture and religion, but less about slavic. how can I merge their cultures???
and what would be the greatest difficulty??
I've been working on a minor Bulgarwank TL, but timelines that far back preset more challeges than more recent divergences in my opinion.
Interesting. Give a link to your BG-wank TL. pls.
To the author of the theme - excuse me I misunderstood the direction. I'll extract the Krum-BG "solution" of slav-wank into a separate theme.
AFAIK the biggest difficulty is liable to be the language. Germanic and Slavic culture are fairly close together materially, to the point that many of the earlier certainties of 'Germanic' or 'Slavic' items are being called into question today. We assume differences in family structure and government, but the way that western Slav and Germanic peoples were able to share a frontier and rule each other over centuries suggests that these differences were either not that great or not that important. Pagan religions can be incredibly syncretistic, so that is unlikely to be a problem. The fundamentals of the two religiosities - sacrifice, oracle, ritual observance of specific occasions - were similar enough. And the material foundation, mixed cereal agriculture in forested regions, was practically the same. Through much medieval history, Slavic-speaking populations were assimilated into Germanic-speaking ones., and there is no reason to think it wouldn't work the other way around. For all we know, it did in the centuries before written history. Certainly, the large areas east of the Elbe were not entirely empty of Germanic-speaking people whjen the Slavs came in.
wassnt there also a strong belief in werewolves amongst slavic peoples
could this result in ( or be the cause of) particulair rituals??
I could certainly work with that
iss there annything specific about Slavic warfare
I have heared they where mainly footsoldiers![]()
I could certainly work with that
iss there annything specific about Slavic warfare
I have heared they where mainly footsoldiers![]()
Besides tribal levies there was Druzhyna - semi-professional bodyguard force composed of best warriors/foreign mercenaries, acting as heavy cavalry.