Ancient Slavic peoples

thumb|230px|The Limes Saxoniae border between the [[Saxons and the Lechites Obotrites, established about 810 in present-day Schleswig-Holstein]] right|230px|thumb|Germaniae veteris typus (Old Germany). Aestui, Venedi, Gythones and [[Ingaevones are visible on the right upper corner of the map. Edited by Willem and Joan Blaeu, 1645.]]

Early Slavs people inhabiting parts of Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages

medieval manuscript listing the tribes of central and eastern Europe

historical ethnical group

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The Buzhans were a tribal union of Early Slavs, which supposedly formed the East Slavs in southern Russia and the Volga region. They are mentioned as Buzhane in the Primary Chronicle. Several localities in Russia are claimed to be connected to the Buzhans, such as Sredniy Buzhan in Orenburg Oblast, and Buzhan and the Buzan River in Astrakhan Oblast.

The Vends (; ; ) were a Balto-Finnic people that lived between the 12th to 16th centuries in the area around the town of Wenden (now Cēsis) in present-day north-central Latvia.

Theorized ethnic group

thumb|"Serbi" located near the mouth of the Volga in a map depicting Sarmatia Asiatica, 1770 The Serboi or Serbi () and Sirbi () was a tribe mentioned in Greco-Roman geography as living in the North Caucasus, believed by scholars to have been Sarmatian.

Sporoi () or Spori was according to Eastern Roman scholar Procopius (500–560) the old name of the Antes and Sclaveni, two Early Slavic branches. Procopius stated that the Sclaveni and Antes spoke the same language, but he did not trace their common origin back to the Veneti (as per Jordanes) but to a people he called "Sporoi". He derived the name from Greek ("to sow"), because "they populated the land with scattered settlements".

The Zeriuani or Zeruiani was an unknown Slavic tribe mentioned by the 9th-century Bavarian Geographer (). It states that the Zeruiani "which is so great a realm that from it, as their tradition relates, all the tribes of the Slavs are sprung and trace their origin". It was the first Latin source to claim that all Slavs have originated from the same homeland.