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Name: Confederacy of the Veleti

Type: Polity

Start: 741 AD

End: 798 AD

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The Veleti were an ethnic federation of Western Slavs, who in the 8th and 9th centuries resided in eastern Mecklenburg (Germany).

Establishment

  • January 741: The Veleti were an ethnic federation of Western Slavs, who resided in eastern Mecklenburg in the 8th and 9th centuries.

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    1. Events

  • January 796: The Obotrites established a confederation of medieval West Slavic tribes within the territory of modern Mecklenburg and Holstein in northern Germany.

    • Disestablishment

  • January 799: In the Battle of Bornhöved in 798 the Obodrites, led by Drożko, allied with the Franks, defeated the Nordalbingian Saxons.
  • January 799: Collapse of Veletian central rule.

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