All my life wondered where was located the fabulous kingdom of Slavonia, from the Grimm brothers' tales. In old Hungarian folk tales, the rejected young hero walks away from his village with half a piece of bread and arrives at the Slavonian King's court to compete for the hand of his daughter and half the kingdom. And he is the only one who can kill the dragon. Nagy lakodalmat csaptak, Hencidától Boncidáig folyt a sárga lé. And they lived happily forever...
Slavonia's name means 'land of the Slovenes'. The reconstructed autonym *Slověninъ is usually derived from the word slovo 'word', originally denoting 'people who speak (the same language)'; i.e., people who understand each other. This is in contrast to the Slavic word denoting German people, namely *němьcь, meaning 'silent, mute people' (from Slavic *němъ 'mute, mumbling'). (in Hungarian, Nema means mute, and German is Nemet).
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