Severans
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Severans ("people of/from the North") were a Slavic tribal union occupying areas from the west Pannonian plain to the Black Sea in the 6th to 9th century. They probably belonged to the eastern branch of Slavic continuum (related to the ancestors of Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Rusyns).
Severans, as well as some other Slavic tribes and tribal groups, descended to the Vallachian plain as vassals of the Avars. In the centuries after the arrival of the Vlachs, majority of Severans were absorbed into the Vlach ethnical corpus with only some insulated pockets managing to preserve their original identity.