from the 14th to 17th centuries and were absorbed into the local population. The population of Moravian Wallachia also descended from the Vlachs. Conversely, some Slavs were assimilated into other populations. Although the majority continued towards Southeast Europe, attracted by the riches of the area that became the state of Bulgaria, a few remained in the Carpathian Basin in Central Europe and were assimilated into the Magyar people. Numerous rivers and places in Romania have a name with Slavic origins. Population Winkler Prins (2002) estimated the number of Slavs worldwide to be around 260 million at the time. Historiography See also Ethnic groups in Europe Gord (archaeology) Lech, Čech, and Rus List of modern ethnic groups List of Slavic tribes Outline of Slavic history and culture Panethnicity Pan-Slavic colors Slavic names Asia Minor Slavs Bulgarisation Russification Serbianisation Polonization Notes References Citations Sources Primary sources Secondary sources Curta Florin, The early Slavs in Bohemia and Moravia: a response to my critics Lacey, Robert. 2003. Great Tales from English History. Little, Brown and Company. New York. 2004. . Lewis, Bernard. Race and Slavery in the Middle East. Oxford Univ. Press. Nystazopoulou-Pelekidou, Maria. 1992. The "Macedonian Question": A Historical Review. © Association Internationale d'Etudes du Sud-Est Europeen (AIESEE, International Association of Southeast European Studies), Comité Grec. Corfu: Ionian University. (English translation of a 1988 work written in Greek.) Rębała, Krzysztof, et al.. 2007. Y-STR variation among Slavs: evidence for the Slavic homeland in the middle Dnieper basin. Journal of Human Genetics, May 2007, 52(5): 408–414. Further reading External links Mitochondrial DNA Phylogeny in Eastern and Western Slavs, B. Malyarchuk, T. Grzybowski, M. Derenko, M. Perkova, T. Vanecek, J. Lazur, P. Gomolcaknd I. Tsybovsky, Oxford Journals Indo-European peoples Modern Indo-European peoples