List of Slavic tribes

The list of Slavic tribes names tribes that are mentioned in written sources until around 1500. Modern ethnic groups are not taken into account.

Western Slavs

with first mentions

• Abodrites (789, Mecklenburg)
• Besunzane (9th century, Bohemia)
• Bethenzer (9th century, Mecklenburg)
• Bohemia (9th century)
• Brizanen (12th century, northern Brandenburg)
• Choden (14th century, Bohemia)
• Chorwading (9th century Bohemia)
• Daleminzier (9th century, Saxony)
• Dedosizen (9th century, Lower Silesia)
• Dossanen (946, northern Brandenburg)
• Dräwanen (11th century, Wendland, Lower Saxony)
• Heveller (9th century, Brandenburg)
• Golensizen (9th century, Upper Silesia)
• Goplanes (9th century, Greater Poland?)
• Kashubians (pommerels)
• Kessiner (Mecklenburg)
• Kujawen (Kujawia)
• Lendizen (9th century, eastern Poland)
• Linonen (9th century, northern Brandenburg)
• Liutizen (991, Western Pomerania)
• Lusitzi (9th century, Lausitz)
• Lutschanen (10th century, Bohemia)
• Moravians (9th century, Moravia)
• Mazovians (12th century, Mazovia)
• Milzener (9th century, Upper Lusatia)
• Moraciani (9th century, Saxony-Anhalt)
• Mürizer (Mecklenburg)
• Opolanen (9th century, Upper Silesia)
• Polaben (Mecklenburg)
• Polanen (1000, Greater Poland)
• Pomorans (1000, Pomerania, Pomeranian)
• Pschowanen (12th century, Bohemia)
• Ranen , Ruganen (10th c., Rügen)
• Redarian (10th century, Mecklenburg)
• Retschanen (northern Brandenburg)
• Slensanen (9th century, Silesia)
• Slovaks (Slovakia)
• Smeldinger (9th century, Mecklenburg)
• Sorbs (to 631, Saxony)
• Sprewanen (Brandenburg)
• Tollenser (Mecklenburg)
• Travnjane (14th century, Lübeck)
• Czechs (Bohemia, Moravia)
• Ukranen (Uckermark)
• Wagrier (Ostholstein)
• Warnower (Mecklenburg)
• Wilzen (9th century, Western Pomerania)
• Wislanen (9th century, Lesser Poland)
• Zamzizi (10th century, northern Brandenburg)
• Zirzipans (11th century, Western Pomerania)

Eastern Slavs

• Bushans
• You live
• Dregovich
• Drewljanen
• Kriwitschen
• Ilmen Slavs
• Poljanen
• Radimitschen
• Severians
• Tiwerzen
• Ulitschen
• Vyatich
• Volhynians

South Slavs

• Abodrites (9th century, Dacia)
• Branitschewzen (9th century, Serbia)
• Carniolensis
• Citaks
• Drugubites (7th - 13th centuries, Macedonia)
• Ezerites (10th-14th centuries, Peloponnese)
• Guduschanen (9th century, western Croatia)
• Karantanen (6th - 9th centuries, Carinthia, Styria, Slovenia)
• Croatians (since 9th century, Croatia)
• Liutizen (southern Montenegro, northern Albania)
• Melinger (10th-14th centuries, Peloponnese)
• Narentans (10th century, Pagania)
• Rhynchinen (7th - 8th centuries, Macedonia)
• Sagudates (Greek Macedonia)
• Sawriner (Northern Serbia, Southern Romania, Eastern Bulgaria, Western Greece)
• Serbs (Western Serbia, Northern Montenegro)
• Slovenes (Slovenia, Austria)
• Smoljanen (Southern Bulgaria, Northern Greece)
• Strymonites (7th century, East Macedonia, West Bulgaria)
• Timochans (9th century, Eastern Serbia, Western Bulgaria)
• Vajunites (Western Greece, Southern Albania)
• Welegesiten (Central Greece)
• Wersiten (Brsjaci - South Macedonia)
• Wilzen (Northern Croatia, Northern Serbia)
• Zagorceni (Western Greece)

Remarks

1. ^ Annales regni Francorum
2. ↑ Bavarian geographer
3. ^ De Administrando Imperio
4. ^ Diocese of Havelberg
5. ^ Adam of Bremen , Church history
6. ↑ Murizzi
7. ^ Vita Sancti Adalberti
8. ↑ Chronica Boemorum
9. ↑ Chronicle of Fredegar
10. ↑ Chronica Poloniae Maioris