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)
Lechites
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Lechites, also known as the Lechitic tribes, is a name given to certain West Slavic tribes who inhabited modern-day Poland and eastern Germany, and were speakers of the Lechitic languages. Distinct fr
Polabian Slavs
…Polabian Slavs, also known as Elbe Slavs and more broadly as Wends, is a collective term applied to a number of Lechitic (West Slavic) tribes who lived along the Elbe river in what is today eastern Germany. The approximate territory stretched from the Baltic Sea in the…
Depiction of the legendary ruler Lech in Chronica Polonorum by chronicler Maciej Miechowita (Matthias de Miechow)