In the Early
Middle Ages there were two separate
Slavic tribes bearing the name of
Polans. Between the 6th and the 9th century,the Eastern Polens inhabited both sides of the Dnieper river from Liubech to Rodnia and also down the lower streams of the rivers Ros', Sula, Stuhna, Teteriv, Irpin', Desna and Pripyat. name derives from the Old East Slavic language word, polyana), meaning "field".
[1] This may have been because the Polans used to settle in the open fields. By the 9th century, the Polans were ruled by the Khazars paid tribute to them. The land of the Polans was conquered by Oleg of Novgorod during the 880's, and became the center, and are said to have been the driving force of the Rus statehood.
[2] According to chronicalized legends, The largest cities of the East Polans were Kiev, Pereyaslav, Rodnia, Vyshhorod, Belghorod (now Bilohorodka, on the Irpin river), and Kaniv. Polans as a tribe were last mentioned in a chronicle of 944.
[3]The West Polans were a Slavic tribe that lived along the shores of the Warta river during the 8th century.[4] They had managed to subdue most of the Slavic tribes between the Odra and Western Bug rivers and between the Carpathians and the Baltic Sea by the end of the 9th century. During the following century, they integrated the lands of Masovia, Kujawy and Great Poland. The tribal union that eventaully emerged, and led by the Piast dynasty, would become what is now Poland.[5]
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