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    The Milceni or Milzeni (Czech: Milčané; German: Milzener; Polish: Milczanie) were a West Slavic tribe, who settled in the present-day Upper Lusatia region...
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    to cede the Milceni region (later Upper Lusatia) to Poland. In 1031 however, King Conrad II of Germany was able to reconquer the Milceni lands, which...
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    Pyritzans (Prissani) Czech–Slovak group Czechs Moravians Slovaks Sorbian group Milceni (Upper Sorbs) Lusatian Sorbs (Lower Sorbs) Lechitic group Polans Lendians...
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    as Milsko in contemporary chronicles, named after the local West Slavic Milceni tribe, later also called Land Budissin. Geomorphological Upper Lusatia...
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    the Ligians. From around 600 onwards, West Slavic tribes known as the Milceni and Lusici settled permanently in the region. In the 10th century, the...
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    only since the 10th century their ethnonym was transferred to the Luzici, Milceni and other tribes of Sukow-Dziedzice and Tornow group who supposedly were...
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    (Obotrites) with 53 civitates, the Surbi (Sorbs) with 50 civitates, the Milzane (Milceni) with 30 civitates, the Hehfeldi (Hevelli) with 14 civitates and so on...
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    contemporary Sorbs are descendants of the two largest Sorbian tribes, the Milceni (Upper) and Lusici [de] (Lower), and these tribes' respective dialects...
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    Polabian Slav tribes in the north and by others, such as the Sorbs and the Milceni, further south (see Sorbian March). The exact origin of the Sorbian language...
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    et ab ipsa Alemura usque in terram Milze recte intra Oddere – "to the Milceni lands" (part of the Imperial Margraviate of Meissen) et exinde ducente...
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    (mentioned above) in the north and by others, such as the Sorbs and the Milceni, further south (see Sorbian March). The Germans in the south used the term...
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    Lusatia Margraviate Bautzen Germans Sorbs Roman Catholic Lutheran Former Milceni lands of Meissen, finally incorporated by King John of Bohemia in 1319...
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    in the middle Elbe (Łaba) valley. Other West Slavic tribes such as the Milceni settled east of them. About 850 the Bavarian Geographer located a Talaminzi...
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    Henry II of Germany in the conflict over the March of Lusatia and the Milceni lands had attacked the forces of the Polish Duke Bolesław I Chrobry and...
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    Sources: [1][2] The first settlers arrived in this area in 700 AD. They were Milceni Slavs. Many artifacts from this old culture have been found in the Hoyerswerda...
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    bordered on the German March of Lusatia (later Lower Lusatia) and the former Milceni lands around Bautzen (later Upper Lusatia) with the boundary running along...
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    western part merged with the later Electorate of Saxony, while the eastern Milceni lands emerged as Upper Lusatia. Over the centuries, the margravial territory...
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    ("craccoa"). Between alemura, probably Olomouc and Upper Lusatia region of the Milceni (terra mileze)[a] a straightened border could include Silesia. The text...
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    Geronis, established in the conquered lands settled by the West Slavic Milceni tribes, reached to the left banks of the Queiß-Kwisa. After the partition...
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    Zgorzelec and Czech Zhořelec have the same derivation. The early Sorbian Milceni tribe were subjugated in 990 by the Margraviate of Meissen, a frontier...
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    in Merseburg in 1013. This time Bolesław kept eastern Lusatia and the Milceni lands around Bautzen as Imperial fiefs. He also received military aid from...
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    Bieżuńczanie tribe, one of the old Polish tribes, which together with the Sorbian Milceni tribe, with which it bordered in the west, was subjugated in 990 by the...
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  • (as Lothair II), appointed Conrad to Lusatia as well. He also ruled the Milceni lands around Bautzen (later known as Upper Lusatia), which had been re-acquired...
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    century, the Meissen margraves temporarily extended their territory into the Milceni lands up to the Kwisa (Queis) river and the border with the Silesian region...
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    30, 1002. While Duke Bolesław had occupied the March of Lusatia and the Milceni lands, the marriage brought the Polish Piasts and the Ekkardiner margraves...
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  • Lower Lusatia. Ancestors of Sorbs in Lower Lusatia. Milchane (Milčané) / Milceni / Milzeni, in Upper Lusatia, and in an area of far north Bohemia. Ancestors...
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    Peace of Bautzen in 1018, which left the eastern March of Lusatia and the Milceni lands (later Upper Lusatia) under Polish control. The former Bohemian fortress...
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  • 50. Lunsizi (Lusatians), 51. Dadosesani (Dziadoszanie), 52. Milzane (Milceni), 53. Besunzane (Bežunčani or Pšovans), 54. Uerizane (unknown), 55. Fraganeo...
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    Ottokar I of Bohemia in the course of the German Ostsiedlung in the former Milceni lands, when a motte-and-bailey castle was erected on the border with the...
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    Lechitic tribes began to settle Silesia, while Lusatia was settled by the Milceni and the Polabian Slavs and the Kłodzko Land was settled by Bohemians. In...
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