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The Russian Primary Chronicle
The Russian Primary Chronicle: The Laurentian Text, [Povest' vremennykhlet]
ed. and trans. by Samuel H. Cross and Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor
(Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1953). In its computerized
catalogue entry here there is a note: "part of the chronicle is believed
to have been written by Nestor in the 11th century."
from Nestor's Chronicle:
Starting with last line page 52.
" Over long period the Slavs settled beside the Danube, where the
Hungarian and Bulgarian lands now lie. From among the Slavs, parties
scattered (hurled?) throughout the country and were known by appropriate
names, according to the places where they settled. Thus some came an
settled by the river Morava and were named Moravians, while others were
called Czechs. Among these Slavs are included the White Croats, the Serbs,
and the Carinthians. For when the Vlakhs attacked the Danubian Slavs,
settled among them, and did them violence, the latter made their homes by
the Vistula, and were then called Lyakhs. Of these same Lyakhs some were
called Polyanians, some Lutichians, some Mazovians and still others
Pomorians. Certain Slavs settled also on the Dnieper and were likewise
called Polyanians. Still others were named Derevlians, because they lived
in the forests. Some also lived between the Pripet and the Dvina and were
known as Dregovichians....."
on page 55:
" Now while the Slavs dwelt along the Danube, as we have said, there came
from among the Scythians, that is from the Khazars a people called Bulgars
who settled on the Danube and oppressed the Slavs. Afterward came the
White Ugrians, who inherited the Slavic country. These Ugrians appeared
under the Emperor Heraclius, warring on Chosroes, King of Persia. The
Avars, who attacked Heraclius the Emperor nearly capturing him, also lived
at this time. They made war upon the Slavs, and harassed the Dulebians,
who were themselves Slav. They even did violence to the Dulebian women.
When the Avar made a journey he did not cause either horse or a steer to
be harnessed, but gave command instead that three or four or five women
should be yoked to his cart and be made to draw him. Even thus they
harassed the Dulebians. The Avars were large of stature and proud in
spirit and God destroyed them. They all perished and not one Avar survived.
There is a proverb in Rus which runs 'they perished like the Avars'.
Neither race nor heir of them remains. The Pechenegs came after them, and
the Magyars passed by Kiev later during the time of Oleg."
" The Magyars passed by Kiev over the hill now called the Hungarian, and
on arriving at the Dnieper, they pitched their camp. They were nomads like
the Polovcians. Coming out of the east, they struggled across the great
mountains and began to fight the neighboring Vlakhs and Slavs. The Slavs
had settled there first but the Vlakhs had seized the territory of the
Slavs. The Magyars had subsequently expelled the Vlakhs, took their land
and settled among the Slavs, whom they reduced to submission. From that
time the territory was called Hungarian. The Magyars made war upon the
Greeks, and seized the Thracian and Macedonian territory as far as
Salonika. They also attacked the Moravians and the Czechs.
There was at the time but one Slavic race including the Slavs who settled
along the Danube and were subjugated by the Magyars as well as the
Moravians, the Czechs, the Lyakhs and the Polyanians, the last of whom are
now called Russes. It was for these Moravians that Slavic books were first
written ….”
"...Bishop Methodius the successor of Andronicus. He travelled among the
Moravians and the Apostle Paul taught there likewise. For in that region
is Illyricum whither Paul first repaired and where the Slavs originally
lived. Since Paul is the teacher of the Slavic race, from which we Russians
too are sprung, even so the Apostle Paul is the teacher of the Russians for
he preached to the Slavic nation and appointed Andronicus as Bishop and
successor to himself among them."
Since Paul (Apostol Pavle) taught the Christian religion in MACEDONIA ("HERE INCLUDED IN ILLYRICUM! AND ALSO THE FIRST ENTRY POINT FOR CHRISTIANITY ON THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT!), Macedonians (ancient ones, and other related groups in the neighbourhood) are considered by the author/s of this chronicle as "Slavs"!
:-)
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Rus Primary Chronicle: Ancient Maks=Slavs!
