Polish tribes
Polish tribes - a term used sometimes to describe the tribes of West Slavs that lived in the territories that became Polish from around the mid-7th century to the creation of Polish state by the Piast dynasty. The territory they lived on became a part of the first Polish state created by duke Mieszko I and expanded at the end of the 10th century, enlarged further by king Bolesław I at the beginning of the 11th century.
In about 850 AD a list of peoples was written down by the Bavarian Geographer. Absent on the list are Polans, Pomeranians and Masovians, who were mentioned later by Nestor the Chronicler in his Primary Chronicle (11th/12th century).
The most important Polish tribes are Polans, Masovians, Vistulans, Silesians and Pomeranians[1]. These five tribes "shared fundamentally common culture and language and were considerably more closely related to one another than were the Germanic tribes."[2]
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[edit] Name
The name is derived from the most important Polish tribe - the Polans. Their name, on the other hand, derives from the word pole - field. It was used also for the eastern Polans that lived in the region of the Dnieper River. Some of the Polans began to surface further west and settled in what was later known as Greater Poland, while the rest remained in the east and later on became part of the Kievan Rus.
[edit] List of Polish tribes
The following is the list of Polish and other conquered Slavic tribes that constituted the lands of Poland in the early Middle Ages, at the beginning of the Polish state. Some of them have remained a separate ethnicity while others have been assimilated into the culture of Poland.
- Polans
- Pomeranians
- Goplans
- Lędzianie
- Masovians
- Vistulans
- Silesian tribes (pl: plemiona śląskie) - are the European tribes of West Slavs[3]. They are usually treated as part of Polish tribes[4] and sometimes even as part of Germanic tribes[5]. Two tribes among them are sometimes considered as Czech (Moravian) tribes[6].
[edit] References
- ^ Raymond Breton, National Survival in Dependent Societies: Social Change in Canada and Poland, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1990, p. 106,ISBN 0886291275 Google Books
- ^ John Blacking, Anna Czekanowska, Polish Folk Music: Slavonic Heritage - Polish Tradition - Contemporary Trends, Cambridge University Press, 2006, p. 3, ISBN 0521027977 Google Books
- ^ "Borderlands of Language in Europe" - Vaughan Cornish, Sifton, Praed, 1936; "Annales Silesiae" - Wrocławskie Towarzystwo Naukowe; PWN 2003; "The Dynamics of the Policies of Ethnic Cleansing in Silesia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" - Tomasz Kamusella 1999 [1]; "Historia Śląska" - Wydawnictwo Śląskie ABC [2]; "Śląsk w czasach słowiańskich" na podstawie prac Marka Szołtyska [3]; "Fale Migracyjne w historii Śląska" - Ruch Autonomii Śląska, 2003
- ^ Jerzy Strzelczyk [in:] The New Cambridge Medieval History, Cambridge University Press, 1999, p. 521-522 ISBN 0521364477 Google Books; Robert Machray, The Problem of Upper Silesia, G. Allen & Unwin ltd. 1945, p. 13 Google Books; Paul Wagret, Helga S. B. Harrison, Poland, Nagel, 1964, p. 231. Google Books
- ^ "Coming Home to Germany?" - David Rock, Stefan Wolff; 2002, ISBN 1571817298 p. 200 Google Books)
- ^ "Czeski Śląsk" - Montes Tarnovicensis, 05/2008 [4]
[edit] See also
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