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The Duleben (Russian Дуле́бы , Old Russian Дулѣби ) were a Slavic tribe in the northwest of today's Ukraine .
Settlement area
The Nestor Chronicle writes: The Duleben lived on the Bug, where the Wolhynians are today .
Czech, but also Russian and Ukrainian authors also assume a tribe of the Dudleben in the south of Bohemia around Doudleby , and suspect a connection between the two.
history
Constantine VII. Porphyrogennetos describes in his De Administrando Imperio that at the beginning of the 7th century the Byzantine Emperor Heraclios summoned the Duleben and the Chorwaten to defend the Avars in the Balkans. The Nestor Chronicle describes an attack by the Avars in the Duleben camp in this context.
In 907 Duleben take part in the procession of the Kiev prince Oleg to Constantinople .
No further information about the Dulebs has come down to us in historical texts. It is therefore assumed that around the middle of the 10th century the Dulebs became Volhynians or were ousted by them.
Archaeological evidence
From the 7th to the 10th century, the western part of the Luka Rajky culture was located on the upper Bug , archaeologists assume that the Dulebs can be attributed to this culture.
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literature
- WW Sedov: Древнерусская народность. Дулебы ( Old Russian peoples. Dulebs ). In: Вестник Российской академии наук , Vol. 73/7, 2003, pp. 594-609 online
- PN Tretyakov: Vostochnoslawjanskie plemena . Moscow 1953