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The Drevani (German: Draväno-Polaben or Drevanen) were a tribe of Polabian Slavs settling on the Elbe river in the area of the present-day Lüchow-Dannenberg district of Lower Saxony, Germany.
They were a constituent tribe of the Obodrite confederacy. In the course of the 9th century their territory was conquered by the Carolingian Empire and incorporated into the Duchy of Saxony. According to the Royal Frankish Annals, Emperor Charlemagne had a fortress built at Höhbeck.
The lands where the Drevani lived is today also known as the Wendland, named after the Wends. The local Slavic language (Polabian) died out in the mid-18th century. The name Drevani means "people of woods/trees" in Polabian (from drevo "tree"). It has survived in the name of the Drawehn hills.
The Drevani (German: Draväno-Polaben or Drevanen) were a tribe of Polabian Slavs settling on the Elbe river in the area of the present-day Lüchow-Dannenberg...
confederation include: the Linonen near Lenzen, the Travnjane near the Trave, the Drevani in the Hanoverian Wendland. the Ukrani in Prenzlau. As allies of the Carolingian...
considered part of Engern, not Eastphalia) Drevani (a Slavic tribe) Chojna (sometimes considered part of Drevani) Osterwalde (Salzwedel) Gretinge (Hohne)...
the Linones (Linonen) near Lenzen, the Travnjane near the Trave, and the Drevani in the Hanoverian Wendland and the northern Altmark. The Veleti, also known...
its opposite coast. This dialect, because of its closer affinity to the Drevani language than to the Pomeranian area, should be classified as a West Lechitic...
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continued their culture. These were the Drevani Polabians of the Wendland east of the Lüneburg Heath, the Jabelheide Drevani of southern Mecklenburg, the Slovincians...
Lüchow-Dannenberg in the east. It is named after the Slavic tribe of the Drevani. In the German federal system of natural geographic regions, the Drawehn...
"Eastern Woods" in the Old Mainland Saxon view, west banks of the Elbe river Drevani = "Wood" or "Wood Tribe", they lived scattered in Oster Walde / Osterwalde...
Mainland Saxon tribe living in the same land and in close contact with the Drevani = "Wood" or "Wood Tribe", the Lipani and the Belesem or Byelozem = "White...
Osterwohle, after which it is probably named. Neighboring shires include Drevani, Chojna, Balsamgau, Nordthüringgau, Derlingau, and Bardengau. By the 12th...
or Gau Balcsem, modern Saxony-Anhalt Derlingau: east of Brunswick Gau Drevani or Drawehn: along the Elbe and Jeetzel rivers, southwest of Lüneburg Gau...
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