Polabian Slavs
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Polabian Slavs, also known as Elbe Slavs and more broadly as Wends, is a collective term applied to a number of Lechitic tribes who lived along the Elbe river in what is today eastern Germany. The app
Sorbian settlements under Dervan as part of the Slavic tribal union of Samo, ca. 631–632
Primary source on the history of the Polabian Slavs: the 12th-century Chronica Slavorum by Helmold, translated into Polish by Jan Papłoński in 1862.
Reconstruction of Slavic gord near Neubrandenburg
Reconstruction of Slavic gord at the Burgwallinsel (Gord Island)
Ostsiedlung
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Ostsiedlung is the term for the early medieval and high medieval migration of ethnic Germans and Germanization of the areas populated by Slavic, Baltic and Uralic peoples; the most settled area is som
The division of the Carolingian Empire, Treaty of Verdun, 843
West-Slavic peoples in Europe until 1125 (yellow borders). Prussia (identified as Pruzzia) has not been a Slavic, but Baltic land.
Timber-framed house in Schöna
German eastward expansion 895–1400