Silesian tribes

Silesian tribes (pl: plemiona śląskie) – are the European tribes of West Slavs[1] that lived in the territories of Silesia. The territory they lived on became part of the Great Moravia in 875 (now mostly Czech Republic) and later, in 990, first Polish state created by duke Mieszko I and then expanded by king Boleslaw I at the beginning of the 11th century. They are usually treated as part of Polish tribes[2] and sometimes as part of Germanic tribes.[3] Two tribes among them are sometimes considered as Czech (Moravian) tribes.[4]

The Silesian tribes, together with the Polans, Masovians, Vistulans and Pomeranians are the most important Polish tribes.[5] These five tribes "shared fundamentally common culture and language and were considerably more closely related to one another than were the Germanic tribes."[6]

Before the 5th century, Silesia was probably inhabited by the Germanic Silingi. Tacitus in his description of Magna Germania mentions Suevi: Marsigni, Osi, Gothini, Burii in what later became Silesia and Burgundiones and Lygii at the Vistula.[7]

List of Silesian tribes

As recorded by Bavarian Geographer:

Polish names:

Other:

References

  1. ^ "Borderlands of Language in Europe" – Vaughan Cornish, Sifton, Praed, 1936; "Annales Silesiae" – Wrocławskie Towarzystwo Naukowe; PWN 2003; "The Dynamics of the Policies of Ethnic Cleansing in Silesia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" – Tomasz Kamusella 1999 [1]; "Historia Śląska" – Wydawnictwo Śląskie ABC [2]; "Śląsk w czasach słowiańskich" na podstawie prac Marka Szołtyska [3]; "Fale Migracyjne w historii Śląska" – Ruch Autonomii Śląska, 2003
  2. ^ Jerzy Strzelczyk [in:] The New Cambridge Medieval History, Cambridge University Press, 1999, p. 521-522 ISBN 0-521-36447-7 Google Books; Robert Machray, The Problem of Upper Silesia, G. Allen & Unwin ltd. 1945, p. 13 Google Books; Paul Wagret, Helga S. B. Harrison, Poland, Nagel, 1964, p. 231. Google Books
  3. ^ "Coming Home to Germany?" – David Rock, Stefan Wolff; 2002, ISBN 1-57181-729-8 p. 200 Google Books)
  4. ^ "Czeski Śląsk" – Montes Tarnovicensis, 05/2008
  5. ^ Raymond Breton, National Survival in Dependent Societies: Social Change in Canada and Poland, McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP, 1990, p. 106, ISBN 0-88629-127-5 Google Books; Charles William Previte-Orton, The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1962, V. II, p. 744, ISBN 0-521-09976-5 Google Books
  6. ^ 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 same conclusions in Mark Salter, Jonathan Bousfield, Poland, Rough Guides, 2002, p. 675, ISBN 1-85828-849-5 Google Books
  7. ^ A System of Ancient and Mediaeval Geography, Magna Germania P 216

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