Best name for pan slavic nation?

[killerbee256]

I'm thinking of starting a slavic campaign, with the end goal of uniting all slavs under one government. What's the best name for this Empire once I form it? The only thing that comes to my mind is Slavia but I don't know much about Slavic languages.

 

[duhsveti]

Slavia would work fine. I was thinking of doing a similar run myself. I would give each Slavic culture command over their own kingdom, and try to keep it all together by upgrading tolerance a lot i'm not sure if that would work

 

[unmerged(606777)]

Well, "-ia" isn't a native Slavic suffix naturally, it's Latin borrowed, though it became kinda universal.

If you wanna go the authentic route, then, hmm...

Slovensko? Slovene? Something like that.

Or "Slovenska Derjava" [sloh-VEN-skuh der-ZHUH-vuh] for "Slavic Empire" -.-

 

[Dryhad]

Isn't that what "Yugoslavia" meant?

 

[unmerged(606777)]

"Yugoslavia" meant "Southernslavia".

 

[duhsveti]

Well, "-ia" isn't a native Slavic suffix naturally, it's Latin borrowed, though it became kinda universal.

If you wanna go the authentic route, then, hmm...

Slovensko? Slovene? Something like that.

Or "Slovenska Derjava" [sloh-VEN-ska der-ZHUH-vuh] for "Slavic Empire" -.-

Derjava would be Russian?

Also Yugoslavia or Jugoslavia would be "South Slavia" if we would translate it.

 

[sreckom92]

Isn't that what "Yugoslavia" meant?

EDIT:
:ninja:

 

[unmerged(606777)]

Derjava would be Russian?

Not just Russian.

Old Slavic - дръжава (κράτος),
Ukrainian - держа́ва
Bulgarian - държа́ва
Serbocroatian - др̀жава,
Slovenian - držâvą
Czech - država
Polish -dzierżawa

 

[unmerged(606777)]

If you go strictly with Slavic linguistic rules for toponym-making, Slovenye or Sloveny or Sloven' would also work. Not as cool, though.

 

[unmerged(606777)]

Best name for Pan-Slavic nation is Russia, though

 

[unmerged(75023)]

Sclavinia.

See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:4_Gift_Bringers_of_Otto_III.jpg

 

[duhsveti]

Serbocroatian - др̀жава,

Croatoserbian - država

Also it's just држава if i'm not mistaken.

Anyway i don't think people in that age would be calling it a state, more likely a kingdom.

 

[unmerged(606777)]

Croatoserbian - država

True Cros must write in Glagolica

Anyway i don't think people in that age would be calling it a state, more likely a kingdom.

Don't you think that drjava, which, as you understand, means "holding" fits perfectly for that meaning? Because in Slavic native nomenclature there were no word for "kings", and big rulers (beyond the kinship level) were called kniaz or grand kniaz?

 

[sreckom92]

Don't you think that drjava, which, as you understand, means "holding" fits perfectly for that meaning? Because in Slavic native nomenclature there were no word for "kings", and big rulers (beyond the kinship level) were called kniaz or grand kniaz?

Kralj is Serbian for King
and "drjava" sounds ridiculous

 

[unmerged(606777)]

Kralj is Serbian for King

Yeah, and it's a borrowed name of Carolus Magnus that became a title.

and "drjava" sounds ridiculous

This word is in the Russian anthem, dude. Thus, it can't be ridiculous. It can only be glorious.

 

[duhsveti]

True Cros must write in Glagolica




Don't you think that drjava, which, as you understand, means "holding" fits perfectly for that meaning? Because in Slavic native nomenclature there were no word for "kings", and big rulers (beyond the kinship level) were called kniaz or grand kniaz?

Yeah it could make sense. We had the word "kralj" for king, but that came from Charlemagne.

Edit: i keep getting ninjad

 

[sreckom92]

Yeah, and it's a borrowed name of Carolus Magnus that became a title.

It is still a tittle, and equal to King.

 

[unmerged(606777)]

It is still a tittle, and equal to King.

But it's not native. That's the point. We're trying to find the non-borrowed titles here.

 

[Rozmarzony]

Yep, Derjava sounds ridiculous, especially for united slavic people.

 

[unmerged(606777)]

Yep, Derjava sounds ridiculous, especially for united slavic people.

How so?