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]] Slavic Europe is a region of , Bosnia And Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia , the Czech Republic , the Republic Of Macedonia , Montenegro , Poland , Russia , Serbia , Slovakia , Slovenia , the disputed territory of Transnistria , and Ukraine . The main religions are Orthodox Christianity and Catholicism , with large Muslim populations in some parts formerly ruled by the Ottoman Empire , as well as various constituent parts of Russia . There were also over 4 million Jews living in Slavic Europe until the Holocaust greatly reduced that number and many surviving Jews emigrated to nearby Israel and the United States . There was a large number of Jews in Slavic Eastern Europe because many Jews had been expelled during the Middle Ages from Anti-Semitic , Christian , Western Europe . (See Christianity And Anti-Semitism ). Amongst the total Slavic population of Europe, there are local Slavic minorities of Sorbs in Germany and Lipovans in Romania , as well as a Slovenian and Croatian minorities in Northeastern Italy and Southern Austria , and the significant Slavic diaspora in Western Europe. SEE ALSO ENDNOTES |
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