Slav

The term Slav covers a welter of nationalities whose common ethnic heritage has long been concealed under religious, geographical, and political diversities and feuds.

Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Samuel Peter Orth 1897

I do not mean that the illiterate Slav is now the equal of the New Englander of pure descent.

Trans-national America 1969

All songs were suppressed which mentioned the word Slav -- 'The Slav

Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty Vladim��r Nosek 1929

I do not mean that the illiterate Slav is now the equal of the New Englander of pure descent.

Trans-national America 1916

The result is that the name Slav has given the word slave to the peoples of Western Europe.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

Consequently, the opinion advocated by Miklosic, namely, that the name Slav was originally applied only to one Slavonic tribe, is unfounded, though it has been supported by other scholars like Krek, Potkanski, Czermak, and

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

When it begins to narrate the history of Russia it speaks indeed of the Russians to whom it never applies the designation Slav, but it also often tells of the Slavs of Northern Russia, the Slavs of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

There is much more reason in another objection that Slavonic philologists have made to the derivation of the word Slav from slovo (word).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

From at least the sixth century the expression Slav was, therefore, the general designation of all Slavonic tribes.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

"Vlahs are like us" said an Albanian to me once; "a man will marry his daughter to a Vlah; but a Slav is different – sour through and through."

High Albania Mary Edith 1909