when did the first slavs get to eastern europe
Slavs Around the 6th century, Slavs appeared on Byzantine borders in great numbers.[16][pageÂ needed] The Byzantine records note that grass would not regrow in places where the Slavs had marched through, so great were their numbers. After a military movement even the Peloponnese and Asia Minor were reported to have Slavic settlements.[17] This southern movement has traditionally been seen as an invasive expansion.[18] By the end of the 6th century, Slavs had settled the Eastern Alps regions.
Early human migrations The recent expansion of anatomically modern humans reached Europe around 40,000 years ago, from from Central Asia and the Middle East, as a result of cultural adaption to big game hunting of sub-glacial steppe fauna.[53] Neanderthals were present both in the Middle East and in Europe, and the arriving populations of anatomically modern humans (also known as "Cro-Magnon" or European early modern humans) have interbred with Neanderthal populations to a limited degree. Populations of modern humans and Neanderthal overlapped in various regions such as in Iberian peninsula and in the Middle East. Interbreeding may have contributed Neanderthal genes to palaeolithic and ultimately modern Eurasians and Oceanians.