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	Polabian language
		Polabian Slavs appeared to be the westernmost Slavic tribes who went to Europe from Common Slavic motherland in European Russia.
		Polabians settled on lands along the river Elbe (Laba in Slavic) in the end of the 1st millennium AD, having Germans as their neighbours.
		Polabian was obviously similar to the older stages of Polish and Sorbian languages.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /tree/slav/polabian.html (319 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Slavs
		Slavs, the largest ethnic and linguistic group of peoples in Europe belonging to the Indo-European linguistic family.
		There is only fragmentary and scattered information about the myths and legends of the pagan Slavs, and it is not possible to trace the history of their religion or to reconstruct the whole Slavic pantheon.
		Varangians, name given by Slavs and Byzantine Greeks to Scandinavians who began to raid the eastern shores of the Baltic and penetrate Eastern Europe by the 9th cent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Slavs&StartAt=11 (566 words)

	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Sorbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Sorbs are a Slavic minority indigenous to the region known as Lusatia in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg (in former GDR territory).
		Historically, the Sorbs are the last remainder of the Polabian Slavic peoples living in most of what is now eastern Germany until the high Middle Ages.
		Most Slavs in the area were Germanised or driven away during the German Ostsiedlung of the 12th and 13th centuries.
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Sorbs (1337 words)

	AT THE SOURCE OF THE SLAVIC WORLD
		Jordanes' identification of Slavs with Veneti bas given rise to a persisting heated debate among scholars anxious to establish on the basis of historical sources the geographical whereabouts of Proto-Slav territory before 600 AD.
		One of the favored propositions is that Slav Veneti of Jordanes should be linked to Tacitus' Veneti whom he briefly described in the late 1st century AD in his Germania.
		Younger phases of the great Slav migration recorded in the written sources dated to the second half of the 6th century onwards are also reflected in archaeological evidence.
	www.rkp-montreal.org /en/04parczewski.html (1236 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Polabian Slavs
		Polabian Slavs is a collective term applied to a number of Slavic tribes living along the Labe River, between the Baltic Sea to the north, Solau to the west and Sudetes to the south.
		By 14th century the majority of Slavs living there were germanised.
		However, both Lusatian languages are spoken by approximately 100,000 inhabitants of the region and the languages are regarded by the government of Germany as official languages of the region.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Polabian_culture (437 words)

	Aryan Unity - Slavs are Aryans
		As long as the German tribes which first clashed with the Slavs and tried to push them back were pagans like their opponents and hardly better organized politically, the chances were almost even in spite of the more warlike character of the Germans.
		These Slavs, soon converted to the Christian faith, were under the leadership of Chrovatos whose name, probably Iranian, was taken by his people, later known as Croats, while other tribes of the same group received the name of Serbs (in the West).
		Emperor Justinian II, after defeating Bulgars and Slavs in 690, had to ask for their assistance in order to recover his throne from a rival, and in reward he granted to Asparukh’s successor, Tervel, the title of Caesar when he received him in the capital in 705.
	www.aryanunity.com /slavs.html (4941 words)

	~ View topic - History - Slavs of Spain from early 500AD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Polabian Slavs, it appears especially the Vielets, established their own enclave in the Utrecht area, and settled in parts of England, apparently as Danish allies; Polabian-Pomeranian Slavs are also known to have even settled on Norse age Iceland and also extensively in the northern Eastern Slavdom.
		The Slavs arrived in Muslim Spain quite early on; already in 762 a certain Arabic diplomat named 'Abd ar-Rahman al-Fihri, who arrived from the East to agitate on behalf of the Abbasids, had the nickname of as-Saqlabi (the Slav), because he was tall, had auburn hair and blue eyes.
		Slavs and Goths also lived close to each other for some time; the latter used to form either most or all of the population of a substantial chunk of present-day Poland, especially in its north-central, north-eastern and eastern sectors, from the Vistula delta in the north to Zamojszczyzna in the south.
	thezaurus.com /forums/viewtopic.php?p=591&sid=df1dc9ef093f83e8bbd6... (6149 words)

	The Slavic Ethnogenesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		All Slavs are descendants from the Proto-Slavic tribes.
		As the early Slavs were agriculturalists, their migration as this stage was not one of violent conquest by warriors, but of peaceful colonization by peasants moving about with the tents in family groups.
		The Slavs were to play a crucial role in European history, their kingdoms were to act as a Bulwark for the whole of Christendom and Europe.
	www.users.bigpond.net.au /agbdesign/slavic (4852 words)

	Perun Summary
		His actions were perceived by the senses: he was seen in the thunderbolt, he was heard in the crackling rattle of stones or the thunderous bellow of the bull or he-goat, and he was felt in the sharp touch of an ax blade.
		The cult of Perun among the Baltic Slavs is attested by the Byzantine historian Procopius in the sixth century CE.
		To Slavs, the mythological symbolism of a supreme heavenly god who battles with his underwordly enemy through storms and thunder was extremely important, and from Perun and Veles, this idea of cosmic battle was passed onto God and Devil following Christianization.
	www.bookrags.com /Perun (2416 words)

	Converted WP file 1viera
		In the case of the Eastern Slavs, this was partly a result of their expansion to the north and east, The process is facilitated when people are on the move, colonising new territories, encountering new challanging environments, circumstances and often hostile locals.
		And this is the case of the Eastern Slavs during their northern and eastern expansion of the migration period, as well as a result of later constant conflicts with the people of the steppes.
		Popowska-Taborska, H.,'Po%abszczyzna jako Pó%nocno-Zachodnia Peryferia S%owia%szczyzny' (The Polabian Slavs as a North-Western Periphery of the Slavdom), in J. Strzelczyk, ed., S%owia%szczyzna Po%abska (The Polabian Slavdom),(Pozna%, Poland: UAM, 1981), pp.
	www.ibiblio.org /sergei/Zaroff (12336 words)

	Welcome to Okana's Web - Polish and Slavic Paganism and Pagan Beliefs
		It is true, however, that from the dawn of history, among these groups the Slavs occupy a central and predominant position representing the vast majority of all peoples in the whole region.
		In addition to the Lithuanians in the center of the group, who were the most numerous, and to the Letts or Latvians in the north, the Balts also included the old Prussians who disappeared after the German conquest of the thirteenth century, losing even their name to the invaders.
		Out of the Western Slavs, only the ancestors of the Poles, who took their name from the tribe of the Polanie (field dwellers), remained in the original Slavic homeland in the Vistula and Oder basins.
	okana.org /halecki.html (1085 words)

	Slavonic languages
		In the 6th century AD the Slavs expanded to the Elbe River and the Adriatic Sea and across the Danube River to the Peloponnese (southern Greece).
		The history of the Balkan Slavs was closely connected with Byzantium, in contrast to that of the Lekhitic and Sorbian subgroups of the Western Slavs, which was connected with western European culture.
		An effort on the part of the Slavs to counteract the influence of the Western Christian church (which was associated with the German empire) was the motive behind the introduction of the Old Church Slavonic language into the liturgy in Great Moravia, the first Slavic national state.
	www.rkp-montreal.org /en/05slavoniclanguages.html (5789 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Slavs
		During his reign Slavs and Avars attacked the empire, and Italy was invaded by the Lombards under Alboin.
		A professor at the universities of Prague and Jena, Schleicher wrote studies of the Lithuanian language (1856-57), the German language (1860), and the language of the Polabian Slavs (1871).
		Later settled by Slavs, it became a bishopric in the 11th cent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Slavs&StartAt=11 (545 words)

	The Slavs and Their Neighbors
		In general, however, it was the eastern branch of the Slavs, first called Antes in the earliest sources and later known under the enigmatic name of Rus, which as a natural consequence of their geographical situation had already had the closest relations with the various Asiatic invaders of eastern Europe in the prehistoric period.
		The series of marches which were supposed to protect the German territory and serve as stepping stones of further expansion, started with the Northern march which was created toward the end of the ninth century at the expense of the Obotrites, the Slavic population of what was later called Mecklenbnrg.
		These Slavs, soon converted to the Christian faith, were under the leadership of Chrovatos whose name, probably Iranian, was taken by his people, later known as Croats, while other tribes of the same group received the name of Serbs, which according to some authorities would be derived from servus (slave).
	victorian.fortunecity.com /wooton/34/halecki/2.htm (4330 words)

	Wikinfo \| Polabian
		The Polabian language was a group of Slavic dialects spoken in present-day northern Germany: Mecklenburg, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, eastern parts of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein.
		There are known Polabian texts written in Hanover Wendland (Luechow-Dannenberg) in 17th and 18th centuries.
		The name derives from the name of Polabian Slavs, which in its turn derives from name of the Elbe river in Slavic languages: Labe in Czech language and Łaba in Polish language, see Wends.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Polabian (151 words)

	Wikipedia: Wends
		The Franks referred to most Slavs living between the Odra and Laba as either Wends or Sorbs, while in Slavic literature these people are called Polabian Slavs.
		The term Wends was used in connection to all Slavs inhabiting west of Poland and north of Bohemia - Polabians, Pomeranians and Sorbs.
		The term Wends was used formerly by Germans also in connection to Slavs in general.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/w/we/wends.html (343 words)

	Dark Ages
		Little else is known about these early Slavs, for writing was utterly unknown and all known knowledge had to be passed down through the generations orally.
		In the years following the eruption, the Norse raiders settled down, founded cities and towns and became the masters of the larger native Slavic population; governing their cities, towns and villages, protecting them from attack and developing a sophisticated code of law, the origins of which may be traced to many of the nearby civilizations.
		Those tribes inhabiting lands further to the south; the Esths, Livs, Letts, Borussians, Polabian Slavs, Poles and the minor Germanic Kingdoms, were also affected, as the abrupt change in climate could be felt in their domains as well and soon hundreds of thousands of invaders had amassed on their doorsteps.
	www.freewebs.com /chunkeymonkey13q/DarkAges.html (15081 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Additional information on Slavs: in an area extending along the Baltic coast west of Rugen Island to the Vistula River are the sea coast provinces of Pomerania (as per Arutiunov, Obodrite-Polabian was the extinct language of Pomerania).
		Polabians are Slavic people dwelling in the basin of the Elbe and on the Baltic coast of Germany; Slovaks are people living in eastern Czechoslovakia, and, as per Arutiunov, the Sorbians are a Slavic people occupying eastern Germany, near Dresden, who maintain a costume and speak two dialects: Upper Lausitz and Lower Lausitz.
		Slovenian [Obodrites, Polabian Slavs, Veletians, and Venedi are all extinct.
	www.drummingnet.com /alekseev/Lecture9.doc (11390 words)

	Sorbs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Historically, the Sorbs are the last remainder of the once-mighty Polabian Slavic peoples living in most of what is now eastern Germany until the high Middle Ages.
		Most Slavs in the area were Germanised or driven away during the German Drang nach Osten of the 12th and 13th centuries.
		The Sorbs have been a much-persecuted group of western Slavs, especially in Nazi Germany, which viewed Slavs as a people designed to be slaves for the Aryan race.
	88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Sorbs (492 words)

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		The Slavs who dwelled on the shores of the Baltic not only proved to be more than just a match for the Norsemen on the waters of the Baltic Sea, but also are known to have ventured outside of that acquen into the North Sea.
		And talking of the Slavs on the North Sea one must also add that some Slavs actually lived on the North Sea's shores, as partial settlement of the Polabian Slavs is know to have taken place in areas on the North Sea to the west of Hamburg.
		All the Western Slavs, whose Poles, Pomeranians, and Polabians are part of, just happen to live directly to the south of Scandinavians, so there should be nothing surprising for the Norsemen to refer to Western Slavs as "Southerners".
	wolnapolska.boom.ru /index-Wyzdraw.html (2358 words)

	University of Queensland <ADT> Public View
		The term Polabian Slavs is a generic name applied to the westernmost branch of the Western Slavs, now almost extinct.
		In Central Europe, with the exception of the Baltic Prussians and Lithuanians, some of the Polabian Slavs resisted Christianisation and remained stubbornly pagan until the middle of the twelfth century.
		In the course of history the Polabian Slavs came under increasing political pressure from the Franks and later from the Empire, in the period between the eighth and the twelfth centuries.
	adt.library.uq.edu.au /public/adt-QU20021106.193935/index.html (442 words)

	Summaries in English (main texts only)
		The uprising of the Polabian Slavs in 983, which halted the eastward expansion of the Ottonian Empire, resounded with an extensive echo particularly in writings by contemporary Saxon authors.
		A pertinent fragment of the life of St. Wojciech and a corresponding part of a letter written by Bruno to King Henry II, in which he admonished contemporary dukes for their lack of concern for converting heathens, are, as a rule, interpreted as apology of the missionary war.
		The essence of the neglect committed by Otto II was to consist in permitting a situation in which neighbouring pagan tribes, undisturbed by the Saxons, induced the already Christianised Slavs to opt for dissent, and on the absence of a suitable reaction after the outbreak of the revolt.
	www.semper.pl /kh/summ10.html (1140 words)

	Connection between Poles and Vandals
		This means that early medieval writers gave the name of Vandals to Avars.
		Very soon after that in chronicles the name "Vandal" started to mean "Slavs" (eg.
		In 12th century also Gerwazy from Tilbury, English writer in Otia imperialia wrote that citizens of Poland are called and are calling themselves Vandals.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/co/Connection_between_Poles_and_Vandals.html (500 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - The Sorbs/Lusatians, Wieletes and Obodrites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This allowed the Slavs and the Germanic settlers of the 11th and later centuries to coexist for a while.
		Polish historian Lowmianski estimated that all 'polabian' slavs numbered 320.000 souls by the year 1000.
		Considering the low urbanisation level among slavs and the actual need to 'expand' to support a growing population, I doubt there was much natural growth here till 1066 so the numbers (if correct) wouldn't be much different.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/printthread.php?t=185176 (3236 words)

	The Rus And The Polianians
		The Slavs of Ibn Khurdadhbih were the Slavic tribes who lived around the Lower Don and Donets, in an island of forested land amongst the steppe.
		In late classical times writers knew of three great branches of the Slavs: the Venedi who are ancesteral to the Czechs, Poles, and Polabian Slavs; the Antes who are the Russian or Eastern Slavs; and the Sclaveni who are represented today mostly in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria.
		The "Rus" are constantly referred to as a tribe of the Slavs, they are said to speak the Slavic language both directly and indirectly, and are said to have many swords which are items of trade.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/9253/rus.html (3738 words)

	E-Books : East Central Europe, A History of: 1: The Geographical and Ethnographical Background - Historical Text Archive
		The recorded history of the Slavs begins at a comparatively late moment, not before the sixth century A.D. By their earliest invasions of the Eastern Roman Empire, at the turn of the fifth century, they came for the first time into contact with the Greco-Roman world.
		In addition to the Lithuanians in the center of the group, who were most numerous, and to the Letts or Latvians in the north, the Balts also included the old Prussians who disappeared after the German conquest of the thirteenth century, losing even their name to the invaders.
		The historical role of all the Baltic peoples started much later than that of the Slavs, however, not before the tenth century A.D. It is another controversial problem as to what extent the Slavs themselves, after their separation from the BaIts, constituted an ethnic and linguistic community which might be called proto-Slavic.
	historicaltextarchive.com /books.php?op=viewbook&bookid=1&cid=1 (3273 words)

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