Slensans

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The Slensanen (also Slenzanen , Czech Silingové , Polish Ślężanie ) were a Slavic ( Western Slavs ) tribe .

Beginnings

After the year 500 they settled with other Slavic tribes such as the Golensizen , Opolanen , Dedosizen , Trebowanen and Boboranen in the area of ​​central Silesia , after Germanic tribes such as the Silinger and other Vandals as well as the Lugians had withdrawn to the west in the course of the migration .

The Slensans lived around the Zobtenberg , which was sacred to them, and along the river Lohe in the area of Breslau .

Written mentions

They are first mentioned in writing in the 2nd half of the 9th century in the 2nd part of the Bavarian Geographer under the name Sleenzane as a tribe with 15 ( XV ) settlements.

In the boundary description of the diocese of Prague by Emperor Henry IV for the diocese of Prague from 1086, the tribe appears as Zlasane .

Political affiliations

From 880 (or earlier) the Slensans were under the sovereignty of the Great Moravian Empire , from 906 onwards to Bohemia .

Between 1000 and 1034 they came under the rule of Bolesław Chrobry of Poland .

The individual West Slavic ethnic groups and their area of ​​distribution between the 9th and 10th centuries.

With the Pentecostal Peace of Glatz in 1137 a permanent border was drawn between Silesia, Bohemia and Moravia .

Duchy of Silesia

After the division of the Polish kingdom in 1163, the independent Duchy of Silesia was established . Its constitutional connection to Poland expired with the death of the Polish senior duke Mieszko III. 1202, because the seniority principle, which has been in force for the whole of Poland since 1138, was abandoned.
As a result, Silesia gained political independence in addition to dynastic independence.
It led to the fact that the partial principalities of the original Duchy of Silesia and the Duchy of Opole , which were later created through inheritance divisions, handed over their territories as a fiefdom to the Crown of Bohemia from 1289 . The political confirmation of these events came in 1335 with the Treaty of Trenčín .

As early as the 11th century, the Slensans increasingly mixed with the other West Slavic tribes and then merged into the new regional society of Silesia .

Surname

It is debatable whether the name of Silesia is derived from the Germanic Silinger tribe or the Slavic tribe of the Slensans .

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