Pschowanen
Pschowanen (Latin psouane ) were a West Slavic tribe or a dominion in the Bohemian Basin in today's Czech Republic .
location
The focal point was the Pšov Castle (in today's Mělník ) at the inflow of the Vltava into the Elbe .
Neighboring tribes were the Czechs in the west , the Chorwaten in the northeast and east , and the Litomerize in the south .
history
In the Christian legend from the end of the 10th century, the story of Saint Ludmilla of Bohemia (around 860) describes her origin from a Slavic province of Psou : ex provincia Sclavorum, que Psou antiquitus nuncupabatur . Her father Slavibor is named there as a prince.
Although the area after his death to the Bohemian Přemyslid falls for the year 1086 in the Chronica Boemorum of Bishop Cosmas of Prague (from the beginning of the 12th century) in a boundary description of the diocese of Prague the root of Pschowanen "Deinde ad: mentioned aquilonem hi sunt termini: Psouane , Crouati et altera Chrouati, Zlasane, Trebouane, Pobarane, Dedosize usque ad mediam silvam qua Milcianorum occurrunt termini ".
literature
- Dušan Třeštík, Počátky Přemyslovců. Vstup Čechů do dějin (530-935) , Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, Praha, 1997, ISBN 80-7106-138-7 , p. 144
- Lippert: Social history of Bohemia , 1908
Remarks
- ↑ Legend of Christians, Cap. 3, p. 24.