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Battle of Lenzen: Slavic forces (the Redarii and the Obotrites) are defeated by a Saxon army near the fortified stronghold of Lenzen in Brandenburg.
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Battle of Lenzen
Capture of a Slavic fortress by the Kingdom of Germany in 929
The Battle of Lenzen was a land battle between a Saxon army of the Kingdom of Germany and the armies of the Slavic Redarii and Linonen peoples, that took place on 4 September 929 near the fortified Linonen stronghold of Lenzen in Brandenburg, Germany. The Saxon army, commanded…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Slavs
Grouping of related Eurasian ethnicities
The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Northern Asia, though there is a large…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Veleti
Lehitic ethnic group that formed around the 6th century
The Veleti, also known as Veletians, Wilzi, Wielzians, and Wiltzes, were a group of medieval Lechitic tribes within the territory of Western Pomerania, related to Polabian Slavs. They had formed together the Confederation of the Veleti, also known as the Union of the Veleti, a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Obotrites
Confederation of West Slavic tribes in present-day northern Germany (8th century – 1167)
The Obotrites or Obodrites, also spelled Abodrites, were a confederation of medieval West Slavic tribes within the territory of modern Mecklenburg and Holstein in northern Germany. For decades, they were allies of Charlemagne in his wars against the Germanic Saxons and the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Duchy of Saxony
Medieval German state
The Duchy of Saxony was originally the area settled by the Saxons in the late Early Middle Ages, when they were subdued by Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars from 772 CE and incorporated into the Carolingian Empire (Francia) by 804. Upon the 843 Treaty of Verdun, Saxony was one…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Lenzen (Elbe)
Town in Brandenburg, Germany
Lenzen (Elbe) (German pronunciation: [ˈlɛntsn̩] ) is a small town in the district of Prignitz, in Brandenburg, northern Germany. The town lies to the north of the Löcknitz River, not far from where the Löcknitz flows into the Elbe. It is part of the Amt Lenzen-Elbtalaue.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Brandenburg
State in Germany
Brandenburg, officially the State of Brandenburg, is a state in northeastern Germany. Brandenburg borders Poland and the states of Berlin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony. It is the fifth-largest German state by area and the tenth-most populous,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)