Slavic migrations to the Balkans

Overview of Slavic migrations to Southeast Europe

Early Slavs began mass migrating to Southeastern Europe between the first half of the 6th and 7th century in the Early Middle Ages. The rapid demographic spread of the Slavs was followed by a population exchange, mixing and language shift to and from Slavic. The settlement was facilitated by the substantial decrease of the Southeastern European population during the Plague of Justinian.

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