Group
Slavs, West
The West Slavs are Slavic peoples speaking West Slavic languages.
They include Poles (with Kashubians and Silesians), Czechs, Slovaks, Lusatian Sorbs and the historical Polabians.
The northern or Lechitic group includes, along with Polish, the extinct Polabian and Pomeranian languages.
The languages of Upper and Lower Lusatia have features in common with both the Lechitic and the Czecho-Slovak group.Culturally, West Slavs develop along the lines of other Western European nations due to affiliation with the Roman Empire and Western Christianity.
Thus, they experience a cultural split with the other Slavic groups: while the East Slavs and most South Slavs convert to Orthodox Christianity, thus being culturally influenced by the Byzantine Empire, the West Slavs along with the westernmost South Slavs (Slovenes and Croats) convert to Roman Catholicism, thus coming under the cultural influence of the Latin Church.
(Rarely, the term "West Slavs" expands to include tthese Catholic South Slavs.)
Member Cities
- Abaújvár Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen Hungary Location
- Altenburg Thuringen Germany Location
- Augsburg Bayern Germany Location
- Bari Puglia Italy Location
- Battle of Chlumec Ustecky Kraj Czech Republic Location
- Battle of Mohi Location
- Battle on the Marchfeld Niederösterreich Austria Location
- Bergen (auf Rügen) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Germany Location
- Bialogard Koszalin Poland Location
- Brandenburg Brandenburg Germany Location
- Brandenburg an der Havel Brandenburg Germany Location
- Brno Brnensky Kraj Czech Republic Location
- Budapest Budapest Hungary Location
- Bytom (Beuthen) Katowice Poland Location
- Chmielnik Kielce Poland Location
- Demmin Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Germany Location
- Erfurt Thuringen Germany Location
- Esztergom Komarom-Esztergom Hungary Location
- Frankfurt am Main Hessen Germany Location
- Frankfurt an der Oder Brandenburg Germany Location
- Freising Bayern Germany Location
- Gars am Kamp Niederösterreich Austria Location
- Gdansk (Danzig) Gdansk Poland Location
- Gniezno Poznan Poland Location
- Goldberg > Zlotoryja Legnica Poland Location
- Graz Steiermark (Styria) Austria Location
- Guastalla Emilia-Romagna Italy Location
- Györ Gyor-Moson-Sopron Hungary Location
- Halle Sachsen-Anhalt Germany Location
- Hedeby Busdorf Schleswig-Holstein Germany Location
- Kadan Ustecky Kraj Czech Republic Location
- Kalisz Kalisz Poland Location
- Klagenfurt Kïrtnen (Carinthia) Austria Location
- Klatovy Plzensky Kraj Czech Republic Location
- Klis Fortress Split-Dalmatia Croatia Location
- Kosice Kosicky Slovakia Location
- Kotor Montenegro Montenegro Location
- Kraków Krakow Poland Location
- Leczyca Plock Poland Location
- Liegnitz > Legnica Legnica Poland Location
- Ljubljana Slovenia Location
- Lublin Lublin Poland Location
- Magdeburg Sachsen-Anhalt Germany Location
- Mailberg Niederösterreich Austria Location
- Melk Niederösterreich Austria Location
- Merseburg Sachsen-Anhalt Germany Location
- Mikulcice Slovakia Location
- Minden Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany Location
- Naklo nad Notecia Bydgoszcz Poland Location
- Nitra Nitriansky Slovakia Location
- Novgorod Novgorodskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Oradea Bihor Romania Location
- Ossiach Abbey Kïrtnen (Carinthia) Austria Location
- Pannonian Basin Location
- Paris Ile-de-France France Location
- Pavia Lombardia Italy Location
- Pliska > Shumen > Sumen Varna Bulgaria Location
- Plock Plock Poland Location
- Pozsony > Bratislava Bratislavsky Slovakia Location
- Prague > Praha Hlavni mesto Praha Czech Republic Location
- Preslav > Veliki Preslav Bulgaria Location
- Pressburg > Bratislava Bratislavsky Slovakia Location
- Przemysl Przemysl Poland Location
- Rab Primorje-Gorski Kotar Croatia Location
- Ratisbon > Regensburg Bayern Germany Location
- Regensburg Bayern Germany Location
- Rome > Roma Lazio Italy Location
- Salzburg Salzburg Austria Location
- Sandomierz Tarnobrzeg Poland Location
- Schweinfurt Bayern Germany Location
- Serdica > Sofia Grad Sofiya Bulgaria Location
- Sirmium > Sremska Mitrovica Serbia Serbia Location
- Sisak > Siscia Sisak-Moslavina Croatia Location
- Spycimierz Konin Poland Location
- Steyr Oberösterreich Austria Location
- Strasbourg Alsace France Location
- Szczecin (Stettin) Szczecin Poland Location
- Székesfehérvár Fejer Hungary Location
- Transylvania Romania Location
- Trencín Trenciansky Slovakia Location
- Trieste (Triest) Friuli-Venezia Giulia Italy Location
- Tursk Masovian Poland Location
- Udine Friuli-Venezia Giulia Italy Location
- Vienna > Wien Wien Austria Location
- Warsaw > Warszawa Warszawa Poland Location
- Wroclaw (Breslau) Wroclaw Poland Location
- Zagreb Grad Zagreb Croatia Location