My favorite funfact from high school history class in Slovenia is that the reason we have such good records of how Slavs migrated into the area is that we can track when churches stopped sending regular reports back to Rome. Slavs come into the area, sack the church, church goes dark.

It’s a shame early Slavs didn’t have writing. When we got Christianized later, it destroyed much of our older culture and it would be cool to know more about those roots. We know the eastern slavs had vampires and werewolves, did we? We know old folk tales mention faeries and kings sleeping in caves for centuries and even the Greek Argonauts, but it’s all very fragmented. It would be nice to know more.

A lot of our (Slovenian, probably Croatian) folk tales mix with even older tales from the celts who used to live in the area. It’s all very fascinating and largely lost because first the Romanization of the Celts and later the Christianization of the Slavs were both quite aggressive.

Another funfact: The oldest wooden wheel was found in my home town -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana_Marshes_Wheel