Glomatians

The Glomacze, also Golomacze or Dolomici (Polish: Głomacze or Gołomacze, German: Daleminzier) - were a West Slavic Lechitic tribe of Polabian Slavs inhabiting areas in the middle Elbe (Łaba) valley. Other West Slavic tribes such as the Milceni settled east of them. About 850 the Bavarian Geographer located a Talaminzi (Dala-Daleminzi) settlement area east of the Sorbs. According to later chronicler Thietmar of Merseburg, the people called themselves Glomacze after a central cult site, a now dry lake near the present-day town of Lommatzsch.

The first known account about the Glomacze is from 805 when they were raided by the troops of

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