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Procopius - the earliest account of Slavic peoples

He described their looks, their pantheon and their fighting habits

He said they were "ruddy"

i have never seen a swarthy person to be "ruddy" as well

being "ruddy" is a phenomenon of white skin

"Slavic" as a term is too wide to be useful for narrowing down things, and has remained in widespread use due to persistence of Slavic tongues everywhere, especially in toponyms

For example, many Slavic people were assimilated into Germans, and probably didn't differ much from them

In the East on the other hand, we had different events

Russians and Croatians are for example, very different in appearance, yet, in linguistics, very similar

From Germany to Siberai and from Baltic to the Aegean sea, you can see one and the same Slavic names for certain things, especially geographical objects

Are these people the same ? Hardly

How are "Slavic" peoples Sorbs and Macedonians related? almost in no respect

Also important

Recession of blonde appearance is an important phenomenon that has rapidly been going on in last 200 years

The enire Europe was much Whiter in the early middle ages

Look at rennaisance paintings from Medieval northern Italy

Florence, Pisa, etc

Like half or more women were painted as blondes

you can now walk around Italy whole day without finding a single blonde lady

that's the inevitable result of nationalism btw, french revolution style

"we are of same nation"

levelling of diferent stratums of society into one rainbow nation

google "rennaisance italy paintings" and see how many blonde women are represented

it's so obvious southern europe used to be nordic

define southern

but northern italy was

Thrace and Macedonia were ginger to blonde

There existed pale people in North Africa

Italy was once a completely diverse subcontinent, but today is almost exclusivelly identified with Sicilian type

And I don't mean to label Sicillians as necessarily inferior

However, the perception transformation is evident

racial mafiamen

You had Romans and Etruscans who were ginger, quite mixed

Northern Italy which was very "Gaul"

and deep south, which was more close to Greeks

But when i say "south' i mean way southern than Naples

today in Italy "south" is everything southern of Rome

sometimes even Rome is "south"

Unification of Italy itself was one huge violent project

Completely orchestrated from outside and from bellow