Northern Slavs

The representation of the North Slavs as a collective term for West and East Slavs in an ethnic map of Austria-Hungary

The terms North Slavs or North Slavic denote a subgroup of Slavs . The term is not clearly defined:

Ethnographically as a controversial generic term for the West and East Slavs (in contrast to the South Slavs in the Balkans ),
As a generic term used mainly by the Russian side to emphasize a supposedly close Pan-Slavic relationship between Poles, Czechs and Russians and thus also to justify Poland's affiliation to Russia
Linguistically a hypothetical fourth Slavic language group, which is postulated on the basis of the linguistic features of the Altnowgorod dialect of the birch bark documents
As a group of planned languages (a fictional fourth Slavic language group)

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