Lendices
The Lendizen , also Ljachen or Lachen (Latin Lendizi , Greek Lendsianoi , Old Russian Ljachi , Old Icelandic Laesir , Laesar , Ljachar , Polish Lędzianie ) were a tribe in the border area between the Western and Eastern Slavs in what is now Poland .
The name of the tribe is probably the origin of the name of Poland in Ukraine (colloquially Ляхи), Hungary (Lengyelek) and Lithuania (Lenka), similar to the name of Alemanni for German / Germany in France and Spain.
Geographical location
981 to be in the Nestorchronik the ljachischen castles Czerwień (Tscherven) and Przemyśl - the cherven cities called -. It is not clear whether other castles were included.
The Nestor Chronicle names the Svear , Rus , Tschuden and Ljachen tribes for the beginning of the world on the Baltic Sea . She writes elsewhere, "Slavs" would have on the Vistula established, this would have called Poles, this then Polans , Masovians , Pomeranen and Lusitzer . It is possible that by the end of the 10th century the term covered large parts of present-day Poland excluding Silesia and the area around Krakow . Lachy is still the term for Poland in Ukrainian today. In the 9th century, however, the lendices are mentioned alongside numerous other tribes in today's Poland.
history
The Bavarian geographer mentioned Lendizi in the 9th century with 98 civitates (Lendizi habent ciuitates XCVIII).
For the year 944 Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos and the Nestor Chronicle reported about a prince of the Lendizi named Bousebouze or Wladislaw, who led to Constantinople with the Kiev prince Oleg .
In 981, Prince Vladimir I of Kiev conquered the castles of Czerwień and Przemyśl. In 1018 these went to the Polish ruler Bolesław Chrobry . In 1031, when Yaroslav the Wise conquered the castle again, the castles were again referred to as "Lyachian".
Individual evidence
- ^ Theodore Murdock Andersson, Kari Ellen Gade Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157) . Cornell Univ. Pr., 2000, ISBN 0-801-43694-X , p. 471, op. Cit. "Saga of Harald (the tough) Sigurðsohn "
- ^ Andrzej Walicki: Dlaczego Polacy to "Lachy"? [Why are the Poles "laughing"?], February 5, 2018 (Polish)