Slavic Americans
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Slavic Americans are Americans of Slavic
Slavic peoples
The Slavic people are an Indo-European panethnicity living in Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, North Asia and Central Asia. The term Slavic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of people, who speak languages belonging to the Slavic language family and share, to varying degrees, certain...

 descent. There are various subgroups of Slavic Americans, including:

East Slavic

Belarusian Americans Russian Americans Ukrainian Americans
  • Rusyn American
    Rusyn American
    Rusyn Americans are Americans whose ancestors were born in Carpathian Ruthenia. Some Rusyn Americans identify as Russian Americans or Ukrainian Americans.-History:...


South Slavic

Bosnian American
Bosnian American
Bosnian Americans are Americans whose ancestry can be traced to Bosnia and Herzegovina. A large majority of Bosnian Americans emigrated to the United States during and after the Bosnian war which lasted from 1992-1995. History of Bosnian arrivals to the United States, however, dates back to as far...

s Bulgarian Americans
Bulgarian Americans
Bulgarian Americans are citizens of the United States with Bulgarian heritage. For the 2000 US Census, 55,489 Americans indicated Bulgarian as their first ancestry, while 92,841 persons declared to have Bulgarian ancestry...

 Croatian Americans Macedonian Americans
Macedonian Americans
Macedonian Americans are Americans of ethnic Macedonian descent.-History:The first Macedonian American immigrants came from the border regions in the north of what is today Greek Macedonia, primarily the regions near Kastoria , Florina , and the south-west of the Republic of Macedonia, notably...

 Montenegrin Americans Serbian Americans Slovenian Americans
Slovenian Americans
Slovene Americans or Slovenian Americans are citizens of the United States of Slovene descent.- History :The first Slovenes in the United States were missionary priests. Two of the earliest such missionaries were Fr. Anton Kappus and Fr. Frederick Baraga . In the 1730s some Slovenes settled in...

 Yugoslav American
Yugoslav American
Yugoslav Americans are citizens of the United States of Yugoslav descent. In the census of 2000, Yugoslav Americans made up a total of 328,547 or 0.1% of total U.S. population.-External links:...

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