Confirmation of the claims that the history of Europe was rewritten in the interests of the Vatican and the ruling Romano-Germanic elites is the work of the Dalmatian historian Mavro Orbini (1563 (?) - 1610) "Slavic Kingdom". Orbini was a native of Dubrovnik, he was ordained a monk of the Benedictine order. People loved and respected him for his wisdom, diligence, kindness, composure and self-discipline.
"Northern Legend" - painting by Konstantin Vasiliev (fragment), 1970
At that time, for the thinking people of Slavic Dubrovnik, one of the topical topics was the sad state of the Slavic world. Many peoples lost their independence, lost their originality. Following the dictates of his heart, Mavro Orbini decided to devote his life to creating an encyclopedic work on the history of the Slavic family. He dug through a lot of sources that existed at that time in monasteries and temples (the Catholic Church at that time was the keeper of culture in Europe, preserving in its bowels a part of the previous culture).
Many materials were found in Italian libraries, including the famous library of the Duke of Urbino (founded by Duke Federigo dei Montefeltro), which was considered at that time one of the greatest repositories of documents and books. Hundreds of Latin, Greek and Jewish sources were kept in a special building. After the death of Orbini, part of this library was lost, and some fell into the archives of the Vatican.
His works were not in vain, he found a lot of references to the Slavs, which are currently unknown to a wide range of Russians, Slavs of the world. So, he included in his work direct and indirect citations of about 330 works - more than 280 he mentions himself (in the list preceding the work), about 50 more can be found in the text. An interesting moment of danger for the Vatican, behind the scenes of that time, is the fact that Orbini's work, two years after its publication, was included in the Index of Prohibited Books.
But the work has not sunk into oblivion, a hundred years later a diplomat from Dubrovnik in the service of Peter the Great Savva Raguzinsky-Vladislavich (he is also known for having brought Ibrahim the little macaw to the Russian Tsar in 1705) presented a copy of the "Slavic Kingdom" to Peter I. In 1722 this book in abridged form, translated by Sava, was published in St. Petersburg. Monk Paisiy Hilendarsky wrote on its basis the famous "Slavic-Bulgarian history". Used the work of Orbini and Vasily Tatishchev. In later times, the work of Mavro Orbini was undeservedly consigned to oblivion. Orbini's work is important for us in that it gives us information about the Slavs from sources that are little known or even lost.
In many ways, Orbini's work confirms the conclusions made by Yu. D. Petukhov in the fundamental work "History of the Rus" and "By the ways of the gods". He believed that the Proto-Indo-Europeans, Indo-Europeans are the Rus, the Proto-Slavs-Aryans. The modern Russian people are their direct continuation, evidence of this can be found in mythology, anthropology, linguistics, toponymy, archeology, DNA genealogy and in other sciences related to history.
According to medieval sources studied by Mavro Orbini (I repeat that some of them are irretrievably lost, while others are kept in the Vatican library), the Slavs fought with almost all the peoples of the world. They ruled Asia, North Africa, occupied most of modern Europe.
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It was they who destroyed the Roman Empire. They entered modern edited history as "Germanic tribes" - Franks, Jutes, Angles, Saxons, Vandals, Lombards, Goths, Alans, etc.
They founded their kingdoms throughout Europe: from North Africa (Vandals-Wends-Venetians) and Spain to the British Isles. The Slavs founded almost all the royal and noble families of Europe, for example, the first princely family of modern France - the Merovingian dynasty (the founder was Prince Merovei). Yes, and the Franks themselves-liars are an alliance of the tribes of raven-liars.
According to Orbini, Scandinavia was also inhabited by Slavs, and the current Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Icelanders and other "German-Scandinavian peoples" are direct descendants of the Slavs.