East Slavic tribes

thumb|A tentative map of the peoples of the Eastern Europe in the 9-10th centuries. Krivichs are marked right in the center. right|thumb|A miniature from Radziwiłł Chronicle|Radzivill Chronicle showing ancient tribe of Krivichs The Krivichs or Kryvichs (; , ) were a tribal union of Early East Slavs between the 6th and the 12th centuries. It is suggested that originally the Krivichi were native to the area around Pskov. They migrated to the mostly Finnic areas in the upper reaches of the Volga, Dnieper, Dvina, areas south of the lower reaches of river Velikaya and parts of the Neman basin.

Early Slavs people inhabiting parts of Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages

Eastern Slavic ethnic group

thumb|200px|European territory inhabited by East Slavic tribes in 8th and 9th century. The Severians, also Severyans, Siverians, or Siverianians (; ; ; ) were a tribe or tribal confederation of early East Slavs occupying areas to the east of the middle Dnieper River and southeast of the Danube River. They are mentioned by the Bavarian Geographer (9th century), Emperor Constantine VII (956–959), the Khazar ruler Joseph (c. 955), and in the Primary Chronicle (1113).

thumb|The Vyatichi tribes pay tribute to Sviatoslav I Igorevich|Prince Svyatoslav I Igorevich (966). Miniature from the [[Radziwiłł Letopis, late 15th century.]]

thumb|200px|European territory inhabited by East Slavic in 8th and 9th century. The Tivertsi (; ; or ), were a tribe of early East Slavs which lived in the lands near the Dniester, and probably the lower Danube, that is in modern-day western Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova and possibly in eastern Romania and the southern Odesa oblast of Ukraine. The Tivertsi were one of the tribes that formed the Ukrainian ethnicity, namely the sub-ethnic and historic region of Podolia. The Tivertsis' cultural inheritors, the Podolians, are a distinct group of Ukrainians.

historic ethnic group

thumb|Iron axe and a fire striker attributed to the Dregoviches. Also a variety of male and female costume accessories: belt buckles, bracelets, beads and other jewelry. [[State Historical Museum of Russia]] 250px|right|thumb|The Slavs in the 9th century thumb|200px|European territory inhabited by East Slavic tribes in 8th and 9th centuries.

thumb|right|The range of Slavic ceramics of the Penkovka culture|Prague-Penkovka culture marked in black, and presumed location of three Early Medieval tribes of Dulebes in Central and Eastern Europe, per V.V. Sedov (1979). thumb|The presumed location of Dulebes (green) in present-day Czech Republic during the 10th century per abandoned hypothesis about the Czech tribes. The Dulebes, Dulebs, Dudlebi or Dulibyh () were one of the tribal unions of Early Slavs between the 6th and the 10th centuries. According to medieval sources they lived in Western Volhynia, as well as southern parts of the Duc

thumb The Radimichs (also Radimichi) (, , and ) were an East Slavic tribe of the last several centuries of the 1st millennium, which inhabited upper east parts of the Dnieper down the Sozh and its tributaries. The name probably derives from the name of the forefather of the tribe - Radim. According to Russian chronicle tradition, "... but there were Radimichs from the Lechites family, who came and settled here and paid tribute to Rus, and the wagon was carried to the present day" (a wagon is a type of tax for the right to have one's own prince). However, in the scientific literature, there is

thumb|200px|European territory inhabited by East Slavic tribes in 8th and 9th century. The Uliches or Ugliches ( or ; or , or ; , or ) were a tribe of Early East Slavs who, between the eighth and the tenth centuries, inhabited (along with the Tivertsi) Bessarabia, and the territories along the Lower Dnieper, Bug River and the Black Sea littoral.

The Volhynians (, ) were an East Slavic tribe of the Early Middle Ages and the Principality of Volhynia in 987–1199.

300px|thumb|Distribution of Slavic tribes in the 9th century. The Polochan territory is located near the upper Western Dvina River. Polochans (, ) were a tribe of early East Slavs, who inhabited the area in the middle of the Western Dvina in the 9th century. Alternative meaning: inhabitants of Polotsk.

The Bolokhovians, Bolokhoveni or Bolokhovens (; Old Slavic: Болоховци, Bolokhovtsy) were a 13th-century ethnic group that resided in the vicinity of the principalities of Galicia, Volhynia and Kiev, in the territory known as the "" centered at the city of Bolokhov or Bolokhovo (not identified yet). Their ethnic identity is uncertain. Archeological evidence and the Hypatian Chronicle (which is the only primary source that documents their history) suggest that they were a Slavic people. Romanian scholars, basing on an interpretation of the ethnonym, identify them as Romanians (who were called Vl

The Berladnici were a supposed medieval people living along the northeastern Black Sea coast. While their ethnicity is unclear, it included runaways from Rus' who left those lands due to feudal oppression. Peasants as well as boyars dissatisfied with the rulers purportedly settled in the vicinity of the city of Bârlad as well as the river of the same name in eastern Romania, as well as on the lower Don River.

Theorized ethnic group

Sporoi () or Spori was according to Eastern Roman scholar Procopius (500–560) the old name of the Antes and Sclaveni, two Early Slavic branches. Procopius stated that the Sclaveni and Antes spoke the same language, but he did not trace their common origin back to the Veneti (as per Jordanes) but to a people he called "Sporoi". He derived the name from Greek ("to sow"), because "they populated the land with scattered settlements".