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Starting in the 6th century Slavic peoples from the east settled in the vacated area between the Elbe and Oder rivers. About 720 two Slavic tribes settled in the Berlin region. The Heveller (Slavic: Havolane) settled on the river Havel with their central settlement in Brennabor, which later has become the town of Brandenburg. Close to the river Spree in today's borough of Berlin Köpenick the Sprewanen (Slavic: Sprevjane) settled. About 750 the Havolane founded Spandow (today's Spandau) on the river Havel. This seems to be the close ...

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History of Berlin: Encyclopedia II - History of Berlin - Slavic East Germany

History of Berlin - Slavic East Germany

Starting in the 6th century Slavic peoples from the east settled in the vacated area between the Elbe and Oder rivers.

About 720 two Slavic tribes settled in the Berlin region. The Heveller (Slavic: Havolane) settled on the river Havel with their central settlement in Brennabor, which later has become the town of Brandenburg. Close to the river Spree in today's borough of Berlin Köpenick the Sprewanen (Slavic: Sprevjane) settled.

About 750 the Havolane founded Spandow (today's Spandau) on the river Havel. This seems to be the closest settlement to the area which is today known as Berlin.

Around 825 Spandau and Köpenick were protected with barriers. They were the major settlements and later towns in the area until the early 11th century.

In the early 9th century local Slavic tribes founded Berlin under a name which is recorded in a Latin document as "Berolina". The name may mean "a dam on a river". It was a small town with a stockade round, on a trade route linking southern Europe with the Baltic Sea.

In 948 Emperor Otto I the Great established German control over the now largely Slavic inhabitants of the area and founded the dioceses of Havelberg and Brandenburg. He died in 983.

In the great uprising in 983 the Slavs wiped out German control from the territory of present day Brandenburg. The monasteries were burned, priests and German officials killed or expelled. The Slavic tribes living east of Elbe remained independent and pagan for the next 150 years.

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