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Polans (also Polanes, Polish Polanie) were a Slavic tribe inhabitating the shores of the Warta river in the 8th century. In the late 9th century the Polanie 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 10th century they managed to also integrate the lands of Masovia, Kujawy and Great Poland. The main centres of their state were Gniezno, PoznanPoznan (pronounce: Media:Poznan. ogg|['pzna]]], German Posen see also other names) is a city in west-central Poland with over 578,000 inhabitants (1999). Located by the Warta River, it is one of the oldest Polish cities, an important historical centre and and Ostrów Lednicki .

The tribal union led by the Piast dynasty soon turned into what is now PolandThe Republic of Poland a country in Central Europe, lies between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and Russia (in the form of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave) t.

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Slavs



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