Wes (tribe)

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Finno-Ugric peoples and their neighbors in the early Middle Ages: The Wes are referred to here as Wepsen

The Wes (German also Wesen or Wessen ) were a Finno-Ugric tribe who settled in what is now northwestern Russia .

Settlement area

The Nestor Chronicle writes: The Wes sat on Lake Beloosero . Beloosero
Castle was the seat of a Varangian prince from 862 . Archaeological finds show a culture of round Kurganen in this area for the period between 950 and 1100 , which reached as far as the eastern Ladoga lake and south of the Onega lake .

history

According to the Nestor Chronicle , the Wes, together with the Tschuden , Ilmensee Slovenes and Kriwitschen, called on the Scandinavian Rus to rule over them in 862 . The Baltic Finnish Wes belong to the early tribes of the Russian Empire and are mentioned more often in Old Russian chronicles. In Beloosero is from 862 Prince Symeos , a brother of the Novgorod ruler Rjurik (Rurik).

According to archaeological findings, round burial mounds ( Kurgane ) with a diameter of 5 to 12 m and a height of 0.6 to 3 m have been built since around 950 . Objects of Scandinavian origin were also found in these graves.

For the period from the 13th century onwards, the Wes are no longer mentioned in written sources.

Today's Wepsen in the area around Lake Onega consider themselves to be descendants of the Wes.

literature

  • Birger Winsa: Finno-Ugric people in the nordic countries: Roots V, the roots of peoples and languages ​​of Northern Europe . Lumio förlag & skrivbyrå, Hedenäset 2005, ISBN 91-975102-5-4 (English, limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Kotschkurkina, Swetlana Ivanovna, Linewskij, Aleksandr Michajlowitsch: Kurgany letopisnoj wesi ( The Kurgane of the historical Wesi ). Petrozavodsk 1985
  • Kotschkurkina, Svetlana Ivanovna: Sokrowishcha drewnich wepsow ( The treasures of the old Wepsen ). Petrozavodsk 1990
  • Kotschkurkina, Swetlana Ivanovna: Belooserskaja Wes (po materialam poselenija Krutik IX-X fw.) ( The Beloosero-Wes (based on archaeological findings of the 9th-10th centuries) ), Petrozavodsk 1991

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