Meanings of south slavs in English

The same for the South Slavs and for all nationalities oppressed in Europe.

In Dalmatia the minority Italians fought the majority South Slavs.

That was plain to every one but the South Slavs.

Kosovo had indeed taught the South Slavs nothing.

The custom of beating or being beaten before coitus is also found among the South Slavs.

Byzantine Orthodoxy had enjoyed some progress among the South Slavs but had to contend with the pagan Bulgarians.

And Austria and Hungary can not get to their outlets on the Adriatic-Triesteand Fiume-withoutpassing through territory inhabited by these South Slavs.

West Europe was, in 1903, quite ignorant of the state of primitive savagery from which the South Slavs were but beginning to rise.

Very exceptionally among some South Slavs we read of a practice of kindling a need-fire by striking a piece of iron on an anvil.

This goes far to explain why Italian propaganda towards the South Slavs until the end of 1917 was, in one historian's phrase, 'violently anti- Yugoslav'.

Among the South Slavs a girl will dig up the earth from the footprints of the man she loves and put it in a flower-pot.

Italy's goals in the war include the annexation of territory where Slovenes and other South Slavs (Yugoslavs) make up a majority of the population.