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- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Subclass of
- Lechites
- Has part
- Lutici
- Languages spoken
- Polabian
- Native language
- Polabian
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- Category:Polabian Slavs
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- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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- Polabian Slavs
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Encyclopedic overview
The areas inhabited by Slavs in the early Middle Ages on a German map showing the course of the Limes Sorabicus – the border between the Germans and the Slavs.
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 along the Elbe river in what is today eastern Germany. The approximate territory stretched from the Baltic Sea in the north, the river Saale and the Limes Saxoniae in the west, the Ore Mountains and the Western Sudetes in the south, and medieval Poland in the east.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Polabian Slavs” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.