1. A temporary government headed by the U.S. and Russia will be set up in the Eastern Slav Republic to maintain peace.

2. Michael first rose to prominence as a close aide (spatharios) to the general Bardanes Tourkos, alongside his future antagonists Leo the Armenian and Thomas the Slav.

3. ‘If you purchased a Bondservant in Europe in the centuries leading up to the year 1000, the chances were that he or she was a ‘Slav’ - hence the word ‘slave.’’

4. Croatian and related Southern Slav languages are modern versions of the languages of the Slavic peoples who moved into the lands of the former Yugoslavia around 500 C.E

5. ‘Moreover, they are seen as typical of most other Macedonian and south Slav societies whose Agnatic kinship structures have been the focus of many anthropological studies.’ ‘Companies are best characterized as being of diverse composition; some consist only of kin, others of members of a variety of Agnatic groups and include nonkin.’