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Slavs are customarily divided into three major subgroups: East Slavs, West Slavs, and South Slavs, each with a somewhat different background. Basically, the East Slavs may all be traced to Slavic speaking populations that were organised as Kievan Rus beginning in the 9th century AD. Almost all of the South Slavs can be traced to originally non-Slavic (Turkic or Sarmatian) steppe populations that were assimilated to the Slavic language during this same general period, as they migrated to the Balkans. The West Slavs (and the Slovenes) do not share either of these backgrounds, but gradually expanded so far to the West that they fell into the cultural sphere of Western (Roman Catholic) Christendom around this timeframe.

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