Polish tribes

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Polish tribes

"Polish tribes" is a term used sometimes to describe the

Bolesław I
at the beginning of the 11th century.

In about 850 AD a list of peoples was written down by the

Masovians, who became known later and were written about by Nestor the Chronicler in his Primary Chronicle
(11th/12th century).

The most important tribes who were conquered by

Pomeranians.[1] These five tribes "shared fundamentally common culture and language and were considerably more closely related to one another than were the Germanic tribes."[2]

Ethnonym

The name "Poland" is derived from the most powerful of the tribes — the

Dnieper River in Eastern Europe
.

Religion

The Polish tribes were

Slavic mythology
exists between all Slavic branches.

Organization

The tribes were organized on the basis of kinship groups. A tribe's territory was divided into opoles, which constituted a group of neighboring settlements.

Most members of a particular tribe were yeoman peasants, although a small group of aristocrats (nobiles or potentiores) was usually present.

Tribes

The following is the list of Polish tribes that inhabited the lands of Poland in the early Middle Ages, at the beginning of the Polish state. They shared fundamentally common culture and language and together they formed what is now Polish ethnicity and the culture of Poland. This process is called ethnic consolidation in which several ethnic communities of kindred origin and cognate languages, merge into a single one.[4]

The following Slavic tribes are considered as Polish:

See also

References

  1. ISBN 0-88629-127-5 Google Books
  2. ^ John Blacking, Anna Czekanowska, Polish Folk Music: Slavonic Heritage - Polish Tradition - Contemporary Trends, Cambridge University Press, 2006, p. 3,
    ISBN 0-521-02797-7 Google Books
  3. ^ Gloger, Zygmunt. "Plemiona lechickie i ich ziemie".
  4. ISBN 311080770X, 9783110807707 Google Books

Further reading

Main article: Bibliography of the history of Poland

External links

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