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Slavery in the Byzantine Empire
Slavery in the Byzantine Empire was a hereditary bondage inherited from Rome that lasted until 1453. Its economic role diminished, and laws gradually restricted abuse and widened manumission.
Slavery in the Ottoman Empire
Slavery in the Ottoman Empire was a legal institution under which only non-Muslims could be held. It supplied the empire's elite and was a society with slaves.
Slavery in the United States
Slavery in the United States, also known as American slavery, held African Americans as property from the early 17th century until the Thirteenth Amendment abolished it in 1865.
Slavery in Zanzibar
Slavery in Zanzibar: the Indian Ocean slave-trading hub and clove-plantation slave system under the Omani sultans, abolished by decrees of 1873, 1890, 1897, and 1909.
Slaves (American band)
Slaves was a Sacramento, California post-hardcore band formed in 2014 by Jonny Craig (ex-Dance Gavin Dance, Emarosa), distinct from the English punk duo of the same name; it released four albums before becoming Rain City Drive in 2021.
Slaves (English punk duo)
Slaves, performing as Soft Play since December 2022, are an English punk rock duo formed in 2012 in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, by Isaac Holman and Laurie Vincent.
Slavi C. Sevov
Slavi C. Sevov is a chemistry professor at the University of Notre Dame who studies main-group metals, Zintl phases, and deltahedral Zintl ions, and joined Notre Dame in 1995.
Slavianski Bazaar
Slavianski Bazaar (Славянский базар) is an annual international arts festival held each July in Vitebsk, Belarus, first staged in 1992 and known for its International Pop Song Performers Contest.
Slavic calendar
Slavic calendar: the time-reckoning of Slavic peoples, combining pre-Christian luni-solar folk month names with the Byzantine Julian calendar adopted with Christianity in the 9th–11th centuries, including calendar styles and modern reconstructions.
Slavic languages
Slavic languages (Slavonic languages), an Indo-European branch descended from Proto-Slavic, with 12 modern languages in East, West, and South groups, including Russian (150 million speakers), and experimentally measured mutual intelligibility among six Slavic languages.
Slavic migrations to the Balkans
The Slavic migrations to the Balkans were the settlement of Slavs from north of the Danube in the Byzantine Balkans from the late 6th century onward.
Slavic names
Slavic names: given names, patronymics, and surnames of Slavic peoples, from native Slavic lexicon names and Christian borrowings, with East Slavic three-part names, Bulgarian double names, and patronymic suffixes like -ov, -ić, -ski.
Slavic Native Faith
Slavic Native Faith, also called Rodnovery, is a modern religious movement that reconstructs the pre-Christian religion of the Slavic peoples, centered on Slavic deities, ancestor veneration, and nature festivals.
Slavic paganism
Slavic paganism: pre-Christian religion of the Slavs, poorly attested after Procopius (6th c.) and Thietmar; gods like Perun; Christianized from the 6th to 13th centuries; revived as Rodnovery.
Slavica Djukic
Slavica Djukic (Славица Ђукић), Serbian handball goalkeeper born 1960 in Veliko Gradište; Olympic gold 1984 with Yugoslavia, fourth 1988, fifth 1992 for Austria; 133 caps; three European Champions Cups.
Slavica Ecclestone
Slavica Ecclestone, née Slavica Radić (born 1958, Rijeka), Croatian-born former Armani fashion model, second wife of Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone from 1985 to 2009, mother of Tamara and Petra, and beneficiary of the Liechtenstein Bambino trust.
Slavija
FK Slavija (ФК Славија), football club of Istočno Sarajevo, founded 1908 as Sarajevo's first sports club; interwar SK Slavija was Yugoslav runner-up 1935/36 and first Bosnian Mitropa Cup entrant; banned 1945, refounded 1993.
Slaviša Jokanović (Славиша Јокановић)
Slaviša Jokanović (Славиша Јокановић), Serbian football manager and former midfielder born 1968 in Novi Sad; won promotions with Watford and Fulham, managed Sheffield United, now FC Basel coach.
Slavko Goluza
Slavko Goluža, Croatian handball center/left back born 1971 in Pješivac-Kula, two-time Olympic champion (Atlanta 1996, Athens 2004), world champion 2003, later Croatia head coach with bronze at Euro 2012, London 2012, and Worlds 2013.
Slavo-Serbian literature
Slavo-Serbian literature, written in slavenosrpski, a blend of Russian Slavonic and Serbian vernacular, was produced by Serbs from the 1730s to the 1860s, mostly in Habsburg lands.
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic (born 1949, Ljubljana), known as the Ljubljana School thinker combining Hegel, Lacan, and Marxist ideology critique; author of The Sublime Object of Ideology.
Slavoljub Penkala
Slavoljub Penkala (1871–1922) was a Croatian chemical engineer and inventor of Polish descent who patented the mechanical pencil and solid-ink fountain pen and built the first Croatian airplane.
Slavonia
Slavonia (Slavonija), historical-geographical region of eastern Croatia between the Sava and Drava rivers; capital Osijek. Known for medieval Kingdom of Slavonia, Habsburg-era counties (1745), agriculture, oak forests, and Graševina wines.
Slavonic-Bulgarian History
Slavonic-Bulgarian History (История славянобългарска) is a history of the Bulgarians completed by Paisius of Hilendar in 1762, seen as the start of the Bulgarian National Revival.
Slavophile criticism
Slavophile criticism is the literary and social criticism of the Slavophiles, a Moscow movement of the late 1830s led by Ivan Kireevsky and Alexei Khomyakov that opposed the Westernizers.
Slavophiles
The Slavophiles (Славянофилы) were a 19th-century Russian intellectual movement, founded by Alexei Khomyakov in Moscow in the 1830s, that wanted Russia to develop on values drawn from its early history, in opposition to the Westernizers.
Slavs
The Slavs are a European ethno-linguistic group speaking Slavic languages (Indo-European), first recorded by Byzantines as Sclaveni in the 6th century; divided into South, East, and West branches, with debated origins and ancient DNA evidence of 6th–8th century migration.
Slavutych (Славутич)
Slavutych (Славутич), the last planned Soviet city, was built from 1986 for Chornobyl NPP workers after the disaster, with districts by eight republics; population about 20,000-24,000.
Sławomir Ćwik
Sławomir Ćwik (born 1972) is a Polish politician of Unia Centrum and a Sejm member who has served as Secretary of State at the Ministry of Climate and Environment since 2026.
Sławomir Mentzen
Sławomir Mentzen, born in 1986 in Toruń, is a Polish politician and tax advisor who leads the New Hope party and finished third in the 2025 presidential election.