The Rani or Rujani were a West Slavic tribe based on the island of Rugia (Rügen) and the southwestern mainland across the Strelasund in what is today northeastern Germany.
A priest of Svantevit depicted on a stone from Arkona, now in the church of Altenkirchen.
The West Slavs are Slavic peoples who speak the West Slavic languages. They separated from the common Slavic group around the 7th century, and established independent polities in Central Europe by the 8th to 9th centuries. The West Slavic languages diversified into their historically attested forms over the 10th to 14th centuries.
Reconstruction of the Slavic temple in Groß Raden
Slavic tribes from the 7th to 9th centuries AD in Europe