Drevlians

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European territory inhabited by East Slavic tribes in 8th and 9th centuries

The Drevlians or Derevlianians

Dregovichs
.

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-

farming and handicrafts
.

History

Klavdiy Lebedev
(1852–1916)

The Drevlians initially fervently opposed the

Eastern Roman Empire
.

Olga's revenge for the assassination of her husband

After Oleg's death in 912 the Drevlians stopped paying tribute. The

Varangian warlord Sveneld made them pay tribute to himself. Oleg's successor Igor attempted to levy the tribute after Sveneld, but the Drevlians revolted and killed him in 945. Igor's widow Olga avenged her husband's death in an extremely harsh manner, killing Drevlian ambassadors and nobility, burning their capital of Iskorosten to the ground and leveling other towns. After having subjugated the Drevlians, Olga transformed their territories into a Kievan appanage
with the center in Vruchiy.

The last contemporary mention of the Drevlians occurred in a chronicle of 1136, when Grand Prince

Yaropolk Vladimirovich of Kiev gave their lands to the Church of the Tithes
.

In literature

The Drevlians are depicted in works dedicated to Kniaz Igor and Kniaginia Olga, including:

and also

  • S. A. Korff (1911), Den drevljanske fursten Mal / S. A. Korff,
    Wikidata Q113396170

See also

  • List of Medieval Slavic tribes

References

  1. ^ "Slavs". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. 1993. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
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  4. ^ Frank A. Kmietowicz (1976). Ancient Slavs. Worzalla Publishing Company. p. 54.
  5. ^ 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.)