Drevlians
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The Drevlians or Derevlianians
Ethnonym
Their name is derived from Slavic drevo/древо or derevo/дерево, meaning "wood"[2] and "tree",[3] because they lived in the forests.[2] Their name may be rendered "the dwellers in the forest".[3] They possibly were mentioned as Forsderen-Liudi by Bavarian Geographer in the 9th century.[4] Nestor the Chronicler (1056–1114) mentioned that those Slavs who settled in open fields had been called Polyani (after the Slavic pole/поле, meaning "field"), and those in forest areas Drevlyani.[5]
Settlements
The Drevlians left many archaeological traces, such as agricultural settlements with semi-
History
The Drevlians initially fervently opposed the
After Oleg's death in 912 the Drevlians stopped paying tribute. The
The last contemporary mention of the Drevlians occurred in a chronicle of 1136, when Grand Prince
In literature
The Drevlians are depicted in works dedicated to Kniaz Igor and Kniaginia Olga, including:
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Bloody Wedding in Kiev,[6] 1866;
- Petro Haivoronskyі's The Kniahynia's Comb,[6] 2015
and also
- S. A. Korff (1911), Den drevljanske fursten Mal / S. A. Korff, Wikidata Q113396170
See also
- List of Medieval Slavic tribes
References
- ^ "Slavs". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. 1993. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-88033-310-8.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-107-65256-9.
- ISSN 0554-8217
- ^ Frank A. Kmietowicz (1976). Ancient Slavs. Worzalla Publishing Company. p. 54.
- ^ a b Sacher-Masoch, L. and Haivoronskyi, P., 2016, Bloody Wedding in Kyiv: Two Tales of Olha, Kniahynia of Kyivan Rus Archived 2016-08-16 at the Wayback Machine, Sova Books, Sydney (Engl. transl.)