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	Wends - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term Wends was used in connection to all Slavs inhabiting west of Poland and north of Bohemia — Polabians, Pomeranians and Sorbs.
		A notable settlement of Wends in Texas is the town of Serbin, in Lee County, where a church, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, stands as a typical example of Wendish architecture.
		In 13th century there was indeed a people called Wends or Vends living as far as in Northern Latvia around the city of Wenden and it is not known if they were indeed Slavs as their name suggests.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wends (497 words)

	Wends - Wikipedia
		Wends are a sub-group of the Sorbs, a Slavic people who moved into Central Europe during the Völkerwanderung, most likely in response to pressure by the westward movement of peoples like Huns, and Avars.
		Reportedly, some of their descendants, also called Wends or Lusation Sorbs, are still living in Lusatia today, where the language is maintained in the schools.
		Moreover, the Wends who wished to continue living in the Empire were compelled to worship the form of Lutheranism preferred by the Germans.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wends (321 words)

	WENDS FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Wends (German: Wenden, Latin: Venedi) is the English name for some Slavic_people from north-central Europe, particularly the Sorbs living in modern-day Germany.
		The term Wends was used in connection to all Slavs inhabiting west of Poland and north of Bohemia — Polabians, Pomeranians and Sorbs.
		Some of their descendants, also called Wends or Lusatian_Sorbs (''Lužički Srbi''), still live in Lusatia today, where the Sorbian_language is maintained in schools.
	www.witwib.com /index.php?s=wends (480 words)

	AllRefer.com - Wends (Peoples (except New World)) - Encyclopedia
		Wends or Sorbs, Slavic people (numbering about 60,000) of Brandenburg and Saxony, E Germany, in Lusatia.
		In the Middle Ages the term Wends was applied by the Germans to all the Slavs inhabiting the area between the Oder River in the east and the Elbe River and the Saale River in the west.
		A crusade against the pagan Wends was launched in 1147 under the leadership of Henry the Lion of Saxony and Albert the Bear of Brandenburg.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Wends.html (350 words)

	Projekat Rastko - Luzica / Project Rastko - Lusatia
		4 The Wends were agreed that "he who does not fear to deny a stranger bread is shameful, vile, and to be abominated by all."5 So ingrained was the ethic of hospitality that Wends would even welcome enemies into their own home, as in the case of Thessemar, an "influential man" in Wagria.
		The Wends, in common with other tribal cultures, considered "the one who is most liberal as the most manfu1."8 Hospitality was a source of fame and status that was almost a necessity.
		In the revolt of 1018 the priests of Oldenburg were tortured to death by the Wends, and equally gruesome tortures were performed on the bishop of Mecklenburg and his priests during the rebellion of 1066.
	www.rastko.org.yu /rastko-lu/istorija/eknox-destruction/eknox-destruction2.html (9664 words)

	Wends - TheBestLinks.com - Australia, Central Europe, Europe, German language, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Wends is a German name (also often used in English) for some Slavic people from north-central Europe.
		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.thebestlinks.com /Wends.html (432 words)

	About the Wends
		The Wends were descended from a group of Slavic tribes that had developed a common language and, in the 10th Century, occupied much of central Europe.
		By the 19th Century, the Wends had been decimated by conquest and assimilation with other cultures until only a small area along the River Spree was inhabited by true Wends.
		The Wendish migration to Texas was impelled, in part, by the Prussian insistence that the Wends (or Sorbs, as they called themselves) speak and use the German language, even to the extent of Germanizing their names.
	wendish.concordia.edu /html/about.htm (1364 words)

	Wends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Moreover, the Wends who wished to continue living in the Empire were compelled to worship in the form of Lutheranism.
		In the United States, the majority of Wends landed at first in Texas, where they became some of the earliest members of the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran church.
		I pray you to answer the questions that his wisdom and holiness; and he is a father.html">father of chivalry and you first." "Then, since that is your pleasure," said Tirant, "and the father and who was given the honor of this festive occasion?".
	www.termsdefined.net /we/wends.html (547 words)

	Who are the Wends? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Wends (pronounced Vends) are the smallest ethnic group in Europe.
		The Wends were granted their long-sought seat in Parliament, yet allowed to retain their own flag and language.
		Wend immigrants in America still mostly reside in small Texas communities between Austin and Houston.
	www.cochlear.org /sys-tmpl/wendish (231 words)

	The Sorbs or Wendish People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the Middle Ages, Wend was the German name for all West Slavs, however, and as a result it came to symbolize the Germanization of the Wends that began in the 9th century with the Carolingians and continued through the Weimar Republic and the Nazi period.
		The folkways of the Wends are tied closely to the church calendar, especially the major festivals of Easter and Christmas, and to the personal milestones of birth, death, and marriage that are also sanctified in the church.
		Source materials on the Texas Wends are to be found in the Concordia Historical Institute, St Louis, Mo., and the Texas District Archives of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod in Austin.
	members.aol.com /BeallComp/wends.htm (2605 words)

	Who are the Wends?
		The Wends were descended from a group of Slavic tribes which had developed a common language, and, in the tenth century, occupied much of central Europe.
		The Wends believed this action would dilute their pure Lutheran faith and, rather than accept this decree, they made plans to emigrate to the New World.
		Wends formed sub-colonies in such places as Austin, Houston, Warda, Fedor, Swiss Alp, Giddings, Port Arthur, Manheim, Copperas Cove, Vernon, Walburg, The Grove, Bishop, and the Rio Grande Valley.
	freepages.family.rootsweb.com /~dubeweb/whowends.html (1090 words)

	Wendish Texans
		The Wends of Texas represent a small Slavic group of people who have never had an independent nation and who have undergone a double assimilation in Texas.
		The only larger group of Wends ever to leave Europe was a congregation of Lutherans led by Johann Kilian.
		The Wends of Texas represent one of the strongest examples of cultural revival by later generations.
	www.texancultures.utsa.edu /publications/texansoneandall/wendish.htm (503 words)

	Wends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Wends are a Slavic people from north-central Europe.
		Wends are a sub-group of the Sorbs, a Slavic people who moved into Central Europe during the Völkerwanderung, most likely in response to pressure by the westward movement of warlike peoples such as the Huns and Avars.
		Some of their descendants, also called Wends or Lusatian Sorbs (Luzicki Srbi), still live in Lusatia today, where the Sorbian language is maintained in schools.
	www.theezine.net /w/wends.html (266 words)

	Sarmatian Review XV.2: Wilson
		The Wends, or Sorbs, of Germany are a Slavic group in what is now southeastern Germany, in the area called Lusatia (Lausitz), around the cities of Bautzen and Cottbus.
		Originally, the Wends had a rich oral folklore, but the large number of dialects and a lack of a written language were critical disadvantages, and there was pressure from the victorious German government in the direction of Germanization.
		In Germany today, the word 'Wends' is felt, at least by some linguists and historians, especially in eastern Germany, to have a pejorative ring, and the word 'Sorbs' is often used instead.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/495/wilson.html (2618 words)

	Projekat Rastko - Luzica / Project Rastko - Lusatia
		Their homeland, which is called Slavia in some sources,2 had been overrun completely by Otto I (936-973) and again by Conrad II (1024-1039), and partially by a number of emperors, kings and dukes.
		Kahl's work has been centered on religious questions, particularly on the contacts between German and Wends in the form of crusades and missions' and is the best example of the move away from moralizing on the subject of the Drive.
		39 His section on the Wends is relatively free of bias, but he too views the violence between Germans and Wends as avoidable, reprehensible, and largely the fault of greedy Saxons.
	www.rastko.org.yu /rastko-lu/istorija/eknox-destruction/eknox-destruction1.html (4713 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: WENDS
		The Wends (also known as Sorbs or Lusatian Serbs) are a Slavic people concentrated in East Germany near Bautzen and Cottbus in the upper Spree River valley, an area long known as Lusatia.
		During the Middle Ages the Wends survived the raids and massacres of German Eastland horsemen; especially during the Nazi years they were pressured to assimilate the German culture, and gradually they have adopted the German language and many customs, although they still retain a separate identity.
		Early Wends practiced many distinctive customs, of which perhaps the most noticeable to outsiders was the German Lutheran custom of wearing fl wedding dresses by Wendish brides to represent the grief and hardship of marriage.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/WW/plw1.html (1263 words)

	Friedrich II of Prussia (Volume 2) by Thomas Carlyle - Chapter I. - BRANNIBOR: HENRY THE FOWLER.
		In the Northern parts, these immigrating Sclaves were of the kind called Vandals, or Wends: they spread themselves as far west as Hamburg and the Ocean, south also far over the Elbe in some quarters; while other kinds of Sclaves were equally busy elsewhere.
		Wends latterly in a waning condition, much beaten upon by Charlemagne and others; but never yet beaten out.
		Henry's son and successor, if not himself, is reckoned to have founded the Cathedral and Bishopric of Brandenburg,--his Clergy and he always longing much for the conversion of these Wends and Huns; which indeed was, as the like still is, the one thing needful to rugged heathens of that kind.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Fred2/00000011.htm (2295 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Wends
		The Wends are partly a term by some held equivalent to Vandals through a latinized form of Wendland, and partly a German abbreviation (also often used in English) for some Slavic people from north-central Europe.
		The term has not historically enjoyed consistent usage, but is most employed specifically for one or two Slavic groups and as an over-arching term.
		For the Slavic interpretation, the term Wends was presumably used in the history in the following meanings:
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Wends (655 words)

	The Conversion and Destruction of the Wends
		Nearly all the physical traces of the Wends have disappeared, so that there is no prospect of ever reconstructing the whole of their social and economic edifice.
		So ingrained was the ethic of hospitality that Wends would even welcome enemies into their own home, as in the case of Thessemar, an "influential man" in Wagria.
		When he defeated the Wends again in 80O he made their land into a march, but he left them their own laws and leaders under the rule of a margrave.
	oit.boisestate.edu /sknox/thesis/chapt2.html (9615 words)

	Sorb People (Brandenburg and Saxony, Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The king of Sweden had the title King of the Wends until 1973 (...) when our present king succeeded to the throne and thought this part of the title was out of fashion.
		King of Denmark, of the Wends and Goths, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein, Stormarn, Dithsmarchen, Lauenburg and Oldenburg].
		In the Upper Lusatia (Oberlausitz) the group of the Catholic Sorbs, the Sorben or Serben (not to be confused with the South Slavic Serbs).
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de_sorbs.html (1521 words)

	The Melting Pot - Wendish
		By the 18th century, European Wends were the object of political and economic discrimination.
		During the 1840s the Wends were affected by widespread crop failures and the political unrest sweeping Europe.
		Later, several dozen Wends followed the Germans who had moved to Texas, but these were completely absorbed into Texas German settlements.
	www.texancultures.utsa.edu /meltingpot/htms/wendish/wendish.htm (686 words)

	Southwestern Archaeology - Messages
		B16-HD-THE WENDS OF TEXAS;The smallest ethnic group of all -BY-By Christopher Swan, Staff correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor -DL-Serbin, Texas-TX- This little historical fragment -- or one quite similar to it -- buried in an obscure tome on Texas folklore, caught Sylvia Grider's eye one afternoon while she was browsing.
		The original Wends who emigrated to Texas left their homeland in a tiny piece of what is now East Germany, near the Czech border, to escape oppression by their German neighbors.
		"Here the Wends purchased a league of land for 50 cents an acre." "What often happens to immigrants in new cultures who face bleak lives," Miss Grider comments, "is that the oral tradition of their past is replaced by hardship stories." And that certainly is the way it was for the Texas Wends.
	www.swanet.org /zarchives/gotcaliche/alldailyeditions/97may/189.html (2101 words)

	The Wends (580-1218 AD) (DBA III-1a) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Thereafter, the Wends faced steady pressure throughout the 10-12th centuries from Saxon, Thuringian, Frankish, and Flemish raiders, who seized the pastoral Wendish as slaves, and by colonists, who moved east to carve out new settlements in Wendish territory.
		Historically, the Wends were known for Viking-like raids along the Baltic coasts, transporting horses to increase their range in-land.
		As the German marches hemmed in their landward territory, the Wends turned increasingly to sea "piracy." When on the defensive, they tended to avoid pitched battles, preferred ambushes and hit and run attacks.
	www.fanaticus.org /dba/armies/III1a.html (1513 words)

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