• The epithet "Bavarian Geographer" (Latin: Geographus Bavarus) is the conventional name for the anonymous author of a short Latin medieval text containing...
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  • by Bavarian Geographer and possibly Baltic Indo-European Thafnezi / Athfenzi / (Y)athfengi? (possibly Yatvingians) Mentioned by Bavarian Geographer and...
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    including geography, historical tribes, and linguistics. In 845 the Bavarian Geographer made a list of West Slavic tribes who lived in the areas of modern-day...
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  • might have been named after the Lake Gopło; Kmietowicz believes the Bavarian Geographer (845) overheard it and recorded it (as Glopeani). Many remnants of...
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    River and southeast of the Danube River. They are mentioned by the Bavarian Geographer (9th century), Emperor Constantine VII (956–959), the Khazar ruler...
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    (Prussia), for which an earlier Brus- is found in the map of the Bavarian Geographer. In Tacitus' Germania, the Lugii Buri are mentioned living within...
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    the Middle Ages were first called Bruzi in the brief text of the Bavarian Geographer and have since been referred to as Old Prussians, who, beginning...
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    "inhabitants of Vistula"; the region is mentioned as Uuislane by the Bavarian Geographer, v Vislè and v Vislèh in the Vita Methodii, and Visleland by Alfred...
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  • Bug, in Ukraine, where they chose to settle down. According to the Bavarian Geographer, the Buzhans had 230 "cities" (fortresses). Some historians believe...
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  • They were first mentioned as "Prissani" with 70 civitas by the Bavarian Geographer, ca. 845. They are associated with the Pomeranians, and were based...
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  • Zeruiani was an unknown Slavic tribe mentioned by the 9th-century Bavarian Geographer (BG). It states that the Zeruiani "which is so great a realm that...
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    Runciman, from agul 'enclosure'. They were mentioned as Unlizi by the Bavarian Geographer, described as "populus multus" and having 418 gords-settlements....
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    realm" because of their common language. In Latin historiography the Bavarian Geographer (generally dated to the mid-9th century) attests that Lendizi habent...
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    of the earliest mention of the Slavs' original homeland is in the Bavarian Geographer circa 900, which associates the homeland of the Slavs with the Zeriuani...
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    generic name of the Slavs. In the mid-9th century the so-called Bavarian Geographer wrote that people named Zeriuani had so large kingdom that all Slavic...
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    Annales Regni Francorum in 822 AD. The tribe was located by the Bavarian Geographer between the tribe of the Bohemians and the tribe of the Bulgarians...
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    tribes, Sorbi/Surbi, are noted in the mid-9th-century work of the Bavarian Geographer. Having settled by the Elbe, Saale, Spree, and Neisse in the 6th...
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    cattle"), which supposedly stands in the name of Stadici described by Bavarian Geographer as "countless people" who had 516 settlements, while the neighbour...
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    fight the Bohemians, who were ruled by Lech. The late 9th-century Bavarian Geographer mentions them as Beheimare, having 15 civitates. Bořivoj was the...
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    century. In about 850 AD a list of peoples was written down by the Bavarian Geographer. Absent on the list are Lechitic-speaking Polans, Pomeranians and...
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    the 7th century onwards. The Hehfeldi as they were called by the Bavarian Geographer about 850 built their main fortification at Brenna (later to become...
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    names of many tribes are found on the list compiled by the anonymous Bavarian Geographer in the 9th century. In the 9th and 10th centuries the tribes gave...
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    Mecklenburg, thereby founding the Germanized House of Mecklenburg. The Bavarian Geographer, an anonymous medieval document compiled in Regensburg in 830, contains...
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    the government of Germany as official languages of the region. The Bavarian Geographer, an anonymous medieval document compiled in Regensburg in 830, contains...
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    Neletici-Nieletycy, Siusler-Susłowie among others. The mid-9th century Bavarian Geographer mentioned the Surbi having 50 civitates (Iuxta illos est regio, que...
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    the forest". They possibly were mentioned as Forsderen-Liudi by Bavarian Geographer in the 9th century. Nestor the Chronicler (1056–1114) mentioned that...
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  • They were first mentioned as "Velunzani" with 70 civitates by the Bavarian Geographer, ca. 845. Associated with both the Veleti (later Lutici) and the...
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  • Bavarian Geographer Dadosesani (Dziadoszanie), Bavarian Geographer Golenzizi (Golęszyce), Bavarian Geographer Opolini (Opolanie), Bavarian Geographer...
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    a Latin document written in the mid-9th century by the anonymous Bavarian Geographer. During this period, smaller tribal structures were disintegrating...
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  • has also been made with the Zeriuani mentioned by the 9th-century Bavarian Geographer. It states that the Zeriuani "which is so great a realm that from...
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