Slavi

Following are three recipes for the large size pie – piroghi – one a very large size pie which the cook, Marlene Johnson of Naknek, says is excellent for "Slavi time."

Church functions such as the Moravian Song Fests and the Russian Orthodox Christmas ("Slavi") provide opportunities for social gatherings and visiting among residents of the communities.

Thousands of Alaskans joined believers around the world this week in celebrating Russian Orthodox Christmas. The ‘Slavi’ celebration follows the old Julian calendar, with Christmas Day on January 7. Festivities last several days as church groups visit relatives and friends, singing traditional carols and enjoying plates of food at each stop.

The tribes of the Slavi were diſtinguiſhed by peculiar names; thus we have the Slavi Marahani, Slavi Sorbi, Slavi Behemani, Slavi Dalemincii, Slavi Carentani, Slavi Polaci or Poloni, Slavi Chorvati, Slavi Roſſi, &c. A great many of theſe are taken from rivers, and parts of the country they inhabited.

Two great races have probably existed in the north-east of Europe for some thousand years. The vain Greeks and proud Romans despised the obscure names of Slavonians and Finns, (Slavi and Finni;) but these populous tribes have occupied from the earliest dawn of history all the countries comprehended under the vague and chimerical names of Scythia and Sarmatia. […] The Slavonic nations are divided, according to their dialects, into three branches: first, the eastern Slavi including the Russians, […] secondly the western Slavi or the Poles, Bohemians, Hungarian Slavi, and the Sorabs or Serbs of Lusatia; thirdly, the northern Slavi or the Venedes of the Romans, […]

[T]hey appear frequently in the accounts of the Byzantine historians, under the different appellations of the Slavi, Sarmatæ, Antæ, Vandales, Veneti, and Vendes, mostly as involved in the wars of the two Roman empires, sometimes as allies, sometimes as conquerors; […]

Early Roman writers refer to the Slavi under the names of the Venedi (Vindes) and the Servians, both of which still designate branches of the race.

As known, the Slovaks found themselves part of the Kingdom of Hungary after the disintegration of the Great Moravian Empire around AD 905. Within Hungary, they were designated as being Slavi in official documents (charters, laws), and in medieval chronicles such as that penned by an anonymous notary of King Béla III at the beginning of the thirteenth century. […] As the Slovaks had not established their own state they continued to be known as Slavi, a term that was the Latin equivalent of the Old Slavic Slavieni.