"The oldest actual contact, as the Zagreb linguist Radoslav Katičić has pointed out in a recent colloquy dedicated to Indo-Yugoslav relations, is to be found in the primeval religion of the Slavs, which was by origin Indian, partly through Persian intermediation. However this fact, proven by the analysis of the expressions for deities, is common to all Slavonic people."
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India and the Yugoslavs, a survey of the cultural links by Ivan Slamnig, Department of comparative literature faculty of arts, Zagreb University.
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Ivan Slamnig
Ivan Slamnig (24 June 1930– 3 July 2001) was a Croatian poet, novelist, literary theorist and translator.
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