Re: [tied] Baltic Slav rebellion

The Slavs who rebelled, in the wake of Emperor Otto II's death, against the establishment of a series of German "marks" east of the Elbe (and the consequent Germanisation of that area) were the Polabian Veleti and Obodrites. The rebellion was quite successful in the sense that it delayed the progress of German colonisation by about two centuries. The Veleti, however, lost all political significance during the 11th c. as a result of internal conflicts and were absorbed by the Obodrites. The latter flourished in the early 12th century but their territory was soon conquered by Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, and became modern Mecklenburg.

Piotr

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From: Max Dashu

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Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 9:27 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Baltic Slav rebellion

Thanks, Sergei, for this very interesting account, which fills in quite a few blanks for me. I am especially interested in the rebellion you mention below, which I hadn't heard of before. Can you say more about this, or recommend sources on it? Thanks in advance. Max Dashu >the great rebellion of the Baltic Slavs in 983, which nearly eliminated >Christianity in the southern Baltic for a while. It need not >explanation that relations between, eg, the Danes and the Baltic >Slavs were far from friendly, and this is another reason why Vladimir >could bar trade routes for Vikings.