In the late 6th and early 7th centuries, some White Croats migrated from their homeland, White Croatia or Great Croatia, to modern Croatia in southeast Europe, along the Adriatic Sea, becoming ancestors of the modern South Slavic Croats. They are thought to have become assimilated into Ukrainian, Polish, Slovak and Czech populations and to have been precursors of the Rusyns. The White Croats, who were documented mainly by foreign medieval authors, preserved their ethnic name into the early 20th century, primarily in Lesser Poland. The White Croats ( Croatian: Bijeli Hrvati Polish: Biali Chorwaci Czech: Bílí Chorvati Ukrainian: Білі хорвати, romanized: Bili khorvaty), also known simply as Croats, were a group of Early Slavic tribes that lived among other West and East Slavic tribes in the historical region of Galicia north of the Carpathian Mountains, in modern western Ukraine, Lesser Poland, Eastern Slovakia, and Northeastern Bohemia. European territory inhabited by West Slavs and East Slavs circa 700–850 AD.
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