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Further Development of Slavic States in High Middle Ages

After Christianisation, the Slavic nations established a number of kingdoms or feudal principalities which persisted during the High Middle Ages. The East Slavs after the death of Yaroslav the Wise (1054) fragmented in a number of principalities, of which Muscovy would eventually (after 1300) emerge as the most powerful. The western principalities of the former Kievan Rus became parts of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The South Slavs consolidated the Principality of Serbia, the Kingdom of Croatia and the Bulgarian Empire. The West Slavs were distributed between the Poland, the Kingdom of Hungary (Slovakia) and the Holy Roman Empire (f.g. Bohemia).

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