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cybalist@egroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> 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
>
And the only thing I should add is that there's another sign of some
connection (or 'mutual orientation' not only in religious, but also
in political spheres) between the Vladimir's Kievan Rus' and the
mentioned groups of the Baltic Slavs: at the time they conflicted
with Mieszko I (prince of Poland) in the West, Vladimir conflicted
with him in the East (Galicia).
Sergei