Ziemie polskie przed Piastami | 500-900 n.e.

At the end of the 9th century, the world of the Esthinians resembled that of their Slavic neighbors across the border. It was a world of political fragmentation and rivalry between small ethnic groups, sometimes led by warlords at the head of local dynasties. This chaotic and still enigmatic world, however, was heading towards an inevitable end. In distant Greater Poland, until then a region of secondary importance, in the basin of the Warta and its tributaries, the Obra and Prosna, a vibrant, indigenous dynasty was developing, one that would violently shake the Vistula region within just a few decades. Cover: Midjourney Sources: Labuda G., Ancient and Early Medieval Slavdom. Anthology of Source Texts, PTPN Publishing House and Sorus Publishing House, Poznań 1999. Studies: Buko A., Archaeology of Early Medieval Poland. Discoveries - Hypotheses - Interpretations, Trio Publishing House, Warsaw 2005. Buko A., The Dawn of the Polish State, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 2021. Kaczanowski P., Kozłowski J. K., The Earliest History of Polish Lands (until the 7th Century), Fogra Publishing House, Kraków 1998. Labuda G., Stieber Z., (eds.), Dictionary of Slavic Antiquities, Ossolineum, PAN Publishing House, Wrocław - Warsaw - Kraków - Gdańsk 1961-1996. Urbańczyk P., Before Poland Became Poland, Nicolaus Copernicus University Publishing House, Toruń 2015. Articles: M. Latałowa, Natural Traces of Settlement Changes between the Oder and Vistula Rivers in the 1st Millennium AD, in: Barbarian Tsunami: The Migration Period in the Oder and Vistula Basins, ed. A. Bursche, K. Kowalski, B. Rogalski, Warsaw - Szczecin 2017. B. Sz. Szmoniewski, Early-Slavic Culture, in: The Past Societies 5. 500 AD - 1000 AD, ed. P. Urbańczyk, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 2016. A. Bitner-Wróblewska, A. Rzeszotarska-Nowakiewicz, Baltic Communities Present Between 500 and 700 AD in Today’s Poland, in: Ibid. S. Moździoch, From a Tribe to a State, in: Ibid. T. Nowakiewicz, Baltic Communities Present in Today’s Polish Territory Between 700 and 1000 AD, in: Ibid. Soundtrack: https://audiojungle.net/item/dark-eth...    • Hydra   Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound Creative Commons Images Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (cropped) Early medieval stronghold in Szeligi Masovia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Early medieval stronghold in Chodlik https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (cropped) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (cropped) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (cropped) Silesian Walls Poland by Maciej Boryna https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Tatar Mound https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Alfred the Great, silver penny; struck 875–880 (obverse) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (cropped) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (cropped) Visualization of Truso Settlement https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Creative Licenses Commons: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... 0:00 Baltic Gold in Ravenna 12:00 Dawn of the Slavs 18:00 Prague Culture 38:00 Slavic Religion 48:00 Great Mounds 57:00 Tribes? 1:03:40 Lesser Poland and the Vistula people 1:12:10 Chodel Basin 1:19:00 Tatar Mound 1:23:40 Podebłocie 1:26:00 Pomerania 1:34:55 Balts 1:50:55...