Sentence examples for slavic descent from inspiring English sources
The drafting of reservists primarily from Russian cities suggested that the sudden draft may have been necessary because the standing army was short of men of Slavic descent.
Once considered a model for a multiethnic state, it has slowly fallen apart over its founding concept, that it was fundamentally meant for the majority, Macedonians mostly of Slavic descent.
Although the majority of the republic's inhabitants are of Slavic descent and heirs to the Eastern Orthodox tradition of Christianity, 500 years of incorporation into the Ottoman Empire left substantial numbers of other ethnic groups, including Albanians, Turks, Vlachs (Aromani), and Roma (Gypsies).
Ms Kizenko (who is American-born but of Slavic descent) notes that "women now dominate the rapidly growing field of religious media, which ranges from glossy mass-market magazines to religious bookstores and publishing houses, blogs and social networks, as well as television and movie production studios".
He said that they may well have been of Slavic descent.
Most modern scholars support his Slavic descent and believe his birthplace to have been near Gaziura in the Pontus.
Himself a non-Muslim Arab American of Syrian-Slavic descent, he treats the subject of Islam with a healthy remove, engaging a painstaking process of live and digital civic engagement launched in 2011.
The Czech population is mainly of Slavic origin.
Most of the stitchers are of Slavic or Eastern European descent ("Tailoring is still a vocation taught in those countries," Mr. Happel said), and the sounds of Russian and Polish still dominate the large light room, with its glimpses of the Hudson, where they work.
Macedonians generally trace their descent to the Slavic tribes that moved into the region between the 6th and 8th centuries ce.
In Matthiessen's new novel, Clements Olin — an American scholar of Polish descent and an expert in Slavic literature — attends a retreat at Auschwitz in 1996, as part of his research on the Polish Holocaust survivor Tadeusz Borowski.
