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The Slavs are a group among the European peoples, attested by written and archaeological sources from the Roman period onwards in the Dnieper basin in eastern Europe. During the sixth century, the Slavs settled in the Balkans and thus entered the zone of Byzantium's cultural, political and economic influence. At the same time, groups of western Slavs settled along the margins of the Merovingian and Lombard kingdoms. This geographical separation predefined the two divergent paths followed by the medieval Slavic civilizations.