The Wends were descended from a group of Slavic tribes that had developed a common language and, in the 10th Century, occupied much of central Europe. By the 19th Century, the Wends had been decimated by conquest and assimilation with other cultures until only a small area along the River Spree was inhabited by true Wends.
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The term Wends or Wendish (Old English: , Old Norse Vindr , German: , Danish: , Swedish: ) is used in Germanic languages for Slavs living near or within Germanic (later German) settlement areas ...
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The Texas Wends or Wends of Texas refers primarily to the 1854 emigration of a congregation of approximately 588 Sorbian/Wendish people under the leadership and pastoral care of John Kilian (Sorbi...
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The Wends of Texas represent a small Slavic group of people who have never had an independent nation and who have undergone a double assimilation 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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