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...
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The Novgorod Slavs, Ilmen Slavs (Russian: Ильменские словене, Il'menskiye slovene), or Slovenes (not to be confused with the South Slavic Slovenes) were...
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Svarozhits (section Polabian Slavs)
Perkune dievaite). Svarozhits first appears in a text concerning the Polabian Slavs. The Christian monk Bruno of Querfurt, in a letter to king Henry II...
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Slovakization East Slavs South Slavs Outline of Slavic history and culture Ilya Gavritukhin, Vladimir Petrukhin (2015). Yury Osipov (ed.). Slavs. Great Russian...
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Slavic paganism (redirect from Polabian religion)
practices of the Slavs before Christianisation, which occurred at various stages between the 8th and the 13th century. The South Slavs, who likely settled...
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List of Slavic pseudo-deities (section Polabian Slavs)
deemed actually to have been objects of worship among pagan Slavs. The pseudo-deities of the Slavs, like those of other ethnic groups, were created as a result...
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was spoken by the Polabian Slavs (German: Wenden) in present-day northeastern Germany around the Elbe, from which the term Polabian comes from. It was...
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Zhrets (section Polabian Slavs)
West Slavs it is attested only in Polish. Most information about the Slavic priesthood comes from Latin texts about the paganism of the Polabian Slavs. The...
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The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia;...
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Obotrites (category West Slavs)
territory of modern Mecklenburg and Holstein in northern Germany (see Polabian Slavs). For decades, they were allies of Charlemagne in his wars against the...
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