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Pomeranians (tribe), the Glossary

The Pomeranians (Pomoranen; Pòmòrzónie; Pomorzanie), first mentioned as such in the 10th century, were a West Slavic tribe, which from the 5th to the 6th centuries had settled at the shore of the Baltic Sea between the mouths of the Oder and Vistula Rivers (the latter Farther Pomerania and Pomerelia).^[1]

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Early medieval Poland
West Slavic tribes

Annales Altahenses

The Annales Altahenses was an early medieval royal annals compiled in the Niederaltaich Abbey which contains records of the events of almost all years in the period between 708 and 1073.

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Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.

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Battle of Verchen

The Battle of Verchen (Schlacht bei Verchen) was a battle between Saxons and West Slavic Obotrites on 6 July 1164.

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Bolesław I the Brave

Bolesław I the Brave (17 June 1025), less often known as Bolesław the Great, was Duke of Poland from 992 to 1025, and the first King of Poland in 1025.

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Bolesław III Wrymouth

Bolesław III Wrymouth (Bolesław III Krzywousty; 20 August 1086 – 28 October 1138), also known as Boleslaus the Wry-mouthed, was the duke of Lesser Poland, Silesia and Sandomierz between 1102 and 1107 and over the whole of Poland between 1107 and 1138.

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Christianization

Christianization (or Christianisation) is a term for the specific type of change that occurs when someone or something has been or is being converted to Christianity.

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Christianization of Pomerania

Medieval Pomerania was converted from Slavic paganism to Christianity by Otto of Bamberg in 1124 and 1128 (Duchy of Pomerania), and in 1168 by Absalon (Principality of Rügen). Pomeranians (tribe) and Christianization of Pomerania are history of Pomerania.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.

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Duchy of Pomerania

The Duchy of Pomerania (Herzogtum Pommern; Księstwo pomorskie; Latin: Ducatus Pomeraniae) was a duchy in Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, ruled by dukes of the House of Pomerania (Griffins). Pomeranians (tribe) and duchy of Pomerania are history of Pomerania.

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Duchy of Saxony

The Duchy of Saxony (Hartogdom Sassen, Herzogtum Sachsen) was originally the area settled by the Saxons in the late Early Middle Ages, when they were subdued by Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars from 772 and incorporated into the Carolingian Empire (Francia) by 804.

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Early history of Pomerania

After the glaciers of the Ice Age in the Early Stone Age withdrew from the area, which since about 1000 AD is called Pomerania, in what are now northern Germany and Poland, they left a tundra.

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Farther Pomerania

Farther Pomerania, Hinder Pomerania, Rear Pomerania or Eastern Pomerania (Pomorze Tylne; Hinterpommern, Ostpommern), is a subregion of the historic region of Pomerania in north-western Poland, mostly within the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, while its easternmost parts are within the Pomeranian Voivodeship.

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Flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland during and after World War II

The flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland was the largest of a series of flights and expulsions of Germans in Europe during and after World War II.

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Germanic peoples

The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages.

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Germanisation

Germanisation, or Germanization, is the spread of the German language, people, and culture.

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Goths

The Goths (translit; Gothi, Gótthoi) were Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe.

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Hamburg culture

The Hamburg culture or Hamburgian (15,500-13,100 BP) was a Late Upper Paleolithic culture of reindeer hunters in northwestern Europe during the last part of the Weichsel Glaciation beginning during the Bölling interstadial.

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Henry the Lion

Henry the Lion (Heinrich der Löwe; 1129/1131 – 6 August 1195), also known as Henry III, Duke of Saxony (ruled 1142-1180) and Henry XII, Duke of Bavaria (ruled 1156-1180), was a member of the Welf dynasty.

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History of Poland during the Piast dynasty

The period of rule by the Piast dynasty between the 10th and 14th centuries is the first major stage of the history of the Polish state.

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Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.

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House of Griffin

The House of Griffin or Griffin dynasty (Greifen; Gryfici, Grif; Latin: Gryphes) was a dynasty ruling the Duchy of Pomerania from the 12th century until 1637.

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Jastorf culture

The Jastorf culture was an Iron Age material culture in what is now northern Germany and the southern Scandinavian Peninsula, spanning the 6th to 1st centuries BC, forming the southern part of the Pre-Roman Iron Age.

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Jomsborg

Jomsborg or Jómsborg (Jomsburg) was a semi-legendary Viking stronghold at the southern coast of the Baltic Sea (medieval Wendland, modern Pomerania), that existed between the 960s and 1043. Pomeranians (tribe) and Jomsborg are history of Pomerania.

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Kashubian language

Kashubian or Cassubian (kaszëbsczi jãzëk, język kaszubski) is a West Slavic language belonging to the Lechitic subgroup.

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Kashubian–Pomeranian Association

The Kashubian-Pomeranian Association (Kashubian: Kaszëbskò-Pòmòrsczé Zrzeszenié, Polish: Zrzeszenie Kaszubsko-Pomorskie) is a regional non-governmental organization of Kashubians, Kocievians and other people interested in the regional affairs of Kashubia and Pomerania in northern Poland.

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Kashubians

The Kashubians (Kaszëbi; Kaszubi; Kaschuben), also known as Cassubians or Kashubs, are a Lechitic (West Slavic) ethnic group native to the historical region of Pomerania, including its eastern part called Pomerelia, in north-central Poland. Pomeranians (tribe) and Kashubians are history of Pomerania and Lechites.

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Kołobrzeg

Kołobrzeg (Kòlbrzég; Kolberg) is a port and spa city in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in north-western Poland with about 47,000 inhabitants.

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Kocievians

The Kocievians (Polish: Kociewiacy), are a Lechitic (West Slavic) ethnocultural group indigenous to the present-day voivodeships of Pomerania and Kuyavia–Pomerania, in north-central Poland.

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Lechites

Lechites (Lechiten), also known as the Lechitic tribes (Lechitische Stämme), is a name given to certain West Slavic tribes who inhabited modern-day Poland and eastern Germany, and were speakers of the Lechitic languages. Pomeranians (tribe) and Lechites are early medieval Poland and west Slavic tribes.

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Lechitic languages

The Lechitic (or Lekhitic) languages are a language subgroup consisting of Polish and several other languages and dialects that were once spoken in the area that is now Poland and eastern Germany. Pomeranians (tribe) and Lechitic languages are Lechites.

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List of early Slavic peoples

This is a list of early Slavic peoples reported in Late Antiquity and in the Middle Ages, that is, before the year AD 1500.

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List of Polish monarchs

Poland was ruled at various times either by dukes and princes (10th to 14th centuries) or by kings (11th to 18th centuries).

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Low German

Low German is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands.

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Lutici

The Lutici or Liutizi (known by various spelling variants) were a federation of West Slavic Polabian tribes, who between the 10th and 12th centuries lived in what is now northeastern Germany.

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Mieszko I

Mieszko I (– 25 May 992) was Duke of Poland from 960 until his death in 992 and the founder of the first unified Polish state, the Civitas Schinesghe.

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Oder

The Oder (Czech, Lower Sorbian and) is a river in Central Europe.

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Ostsiedlung

Ostsiedlung is the term for the Early Medieval and High Medieval migration of ethnic Germans and Germanization of the areas populated by Slavic, Baltic and Finnic peoples, the most settled area was known as Germania Slavica.

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Otto of Bamberg

Otto of Bamberg (1060 or 1061 – 30 June 1139) was a German missionary and papal legate who converted much of medieval Pomerania to Christianity.

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Parsęta

Parsęta (Persante) is a river in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (Zachodniopomorskie) of north-western Poland, with a length of and a basin area of.

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Piast dynasty

The House of Piast was the first historical ruling dynasty of Poland.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Polish tribes

"Polish tribes" is a term used sometimes to describe the tribes of West Slavic Lechites that lived from around the mid-6th century in the territories that became Polish with the creation of the Polish state by the Piast dynasty. Pomeranians (tribe) and Polish tribes are early medieval Poland and west Slavic tribes.

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Pomeranian culture

The Pomeranian culture, also Pomeranian or Pomerelian Face Urn culture was an Iron Age culture with origins in parts of the area south of the Baltic Sea (which later became Pomerania, part of northern Germany/Poland), from the 7th century BC to the 3rd century BC, which eventually covered most of today's Poland. Pomeranians (tribe) and Pomeranian culture are history of Pomerania.

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Pomeranian language

The Pomeranian language (pomorszczyzna or język pomorski; Pomoranisch or die pomoranische Sprache) is in the Pomeranian group of Lechitic languages (grupa pomorska języków lechickich; die pomoranische Gruppe der lechischen Sprachen) within the West Slavic languages.

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Pomerelia

Pomerelia, also known as Eastern Pomerania, Vistula Pomerania, and also before World War II as Polish Pomerania, is a historical sub-region of Pomerania on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland. Pomeranians (tribe) and Pomerelia are history of Pomerania.

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Primary Chronicle

The Russian Primary Chronicle, commonly shortened to Primary Chronicle (translit, commonly transcribed Povest' vremennykh let (PVL)), is a chronicle of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Koszalin–Kołobrzeg

The Diocese of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg (Dioecesis Coslinensis-Colubregana) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction of diocese of the Catholic Church in northwestern Poland.

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Rugii

The Rugii, Rogi or Rugians (Rogoi), were a Roman-era Germanic people. Pomeranians (tribe) and Rugii are history of Pomerania and Lechites.

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Samborides

The Samborides or House of Sobiesław were a ruling dynasty in the historic region of Pomerelia.

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Slovincians

Slovincians, also known as Łeba Kashubians, is a near-extinct ethnic subgroup of the Kashubian people, who originated from the north western Kashubia, located in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, from the area around the lakes of Łebsko and Gardno.

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Standard German

Standard High German (SHG), less precisely Standard German or High German (Standardhochdeutsch, Standarddeutsch, Hochdeutsch or, in Switzerland, Schriftdeutsch), is the umbrella term for the standardized varieties of the German language, which are used in formal contexts and for communication between different dialect areas.

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Teutonic Order

The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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Tribe

The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group.

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Tuchola Forest

The Tuchola Forest, also known as Tuchola Pinewoods or Tuchola Conifer Woods, (the latter a literal translation of Bory Tucholskie; Tëchòlsczé Bòrë; Tuchler or Tucheler Heide) is a large forest complex near the town of Tuchola in northern Poland.

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Vistula

The Vistula (Wisła,, Weichsel) is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest in Europe, at in length.

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Wartislaw I, Duke of Pomerania

Wartislaw I (Warcisław I) (– August 9, 1135) was the first historical ruler of the Duchy of Pomerania and the founder of the Griffin Dynasty.

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West Slavic languages

The West Slavic languages are a subdivision of the Slavic language group.

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West Slavs

The West Slavs are Slavic peoples who speak the West Slavic languages.

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Western Pomerania

Historical Western Pomerania, also called Cispomerania, Fore Pomerania, Front Pomerania or Hither Pomerania (Vorpommern; Pomorze Przednie), is the western extremity of the historic region of Pomerania forming the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, located mostly in north-eastern Germany, with a small portion in north-western Poland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomeranians_(tribe)

Also known as Pomeranians (Slavic tribe), Pomoranians (Slavic tribe), Pomoranians (tribe), Pomorzanie, Slavic Pomeranians.

, Standard German, Teutonic Order, Tribe, Tuchola Forest, Vistula, Wartislaw I, Duke of Pomerania, West Slavic languages, West Slavs, Western Pomerania, Wichmann the Younger, Wielbark culture, Wolinians.

Pomeranians (tribe), the Glossary

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See also

Early medieval Poland

West Slavic tribes

References