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What I meant that only Slovaks and Slovenes didn't abandon the ethnonym Slav. Both countries' names mean "slovenic region". Nationalism virtually didn't exist back then, political entities usually drew their name from older regional names, or from seats of power, or from the dynasty that held...

People still care about this BS? Perhaps because Slav is an English term. A corruption of Sloven, which comes from slovo, "word". Only Slovenes and Slovaks are Slavs in the truest sense. Both ethnonyms are regional variants of Sloven.

:petrified: I find this a bit hard to believe, but maybe I just idealized Belgium too much. And here I thought Slovakia was oh-so-conservative, with the option for parents to choose religion over ethics classes for their kids breeding endless controversy. But at least those classes aren't graded...