Slavic revolt of 983

Territory of Lutici federation after 983, beyond the eastern border of the German kingdom (outlined in yellow)

In the Slavic revolt of 983, Polabian Slavs, Wends, Lutici and Obotrite tribes, that lived east of the Elbe River in modern north-east Germany overthrew an assumed Ottonian rule over the Slavic lands and rejected Christianization under Emperor Otto I.[1]

  1. ^ James Westfall Thompson (1916). "The German Church and the Conversion of the Baltic Slavs". The American Journal of Theology. 20 (2). Grin: 205–230. doi:10.1086/479673. JSTOR 3155462.

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