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Wends - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Wends of Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Learn more about "wends" ... Learn more about "wends" and related topics at Britannica.com ... APA Style wends. (2009). In Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.
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Serbin, Texas; an informal history of the Wends in Texas, their migration and settlements, a tale of hardship and endurance. ... THE WENDS IN TEXAS...
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1 Thus do the Wends first appear in the sources. Political and military mastery over the Wends was from the very first the main problem confronting the Franks along their Elbe River frontier, as it was for their German successors.
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The Wends are actually a Slavic people more closely related to the Czechs and the Poles than to the Germans. They have their own language which sounds more like Czech than German. The Wends migrated into what is now Germany about 500 A.D. They settled in an area called the Spreewald.
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The term has not historically enjoyed consistent usage — it is mostly employed specifically for one or two Slavic groups but in the past it was often used as an over-arching term for all Slavic people. ... The term Wends was used in history in the following meanings: # The Franks referred to most Slavs living...
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