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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
>
One practical question to Piotr. Could you give me some hints on how
Veleti and Obodrites are pronounced in English? I can't find them in
a dictionary.
Sergei