- The Wagri, Wagiri, or
Wagrians were a
tribe of
Polabian Slavs inhabiting Wagria, or
eastern Holstein in
northern Germany, from the
ninth to
twelfth centuries...
- predecessors. As
raiding was a
frequent practice among the Danes, Saxons, and
Wagrians, the
borderlands was a
hostile and
unsafe area to inhabit. In response...
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including the
islands of Fehmarn, Poel, Rügen,
Usedom and Wollin",
namely the
Wagrians,
Obodrites (or Abotrites), the Polabians, the
Liutizians or Wilzians, the...
- (districts of Plön and Ostholstein) was
given to the Obotrites,
namely the
Wagrians, and the
Saxon elite was
deported to
various areas of the empire. After...
-
German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
Oldenburg was the
chief town of the
Wagrians, one of the
Slavic peoples that
migrated as far west as the
river Elbe...
-
confederation were: the
Obotrites proper (Wismar Bay to Lake Schwerin); the
Wagrians (the
eastern Holstein as part of Saxony); the
Warnower (the
upper Warnow...
-
Niklot preemptively invaded Wagria in June 1147, and,
along with the
Wagrians,
decimated newly settled Fleming and
Frisian villages,
leading to the march...
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including on the
North Frisian Islands, and
Saxons (including
Germanized Wagrians and Wends), who
lived in the area
south of the
Danes and the Frisians....
- (Slavic) root of the name, Wagria,
meant not only the so-called, present-day
Wagrian peninsula, but the
entire region between the Kiel Fjord, the
middle reaches...
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taxation and
oppression of the
Saxon lords were
essentially driving the
Wagrians to the
Baltic Sea. The
Slavs retained their old
religious practices, such...
