{"slug": "obotrites", "label": "Obotrites", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obotrites", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156108", "qid": "Q156108", "description": "ethnic group, Independent confederation of Polabian Slavic tribes", "entries": 10, "years": 10, "span": [789, 1147], "span_label": ["789 CE", "1147 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 8}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "charlemagne", "label": "Charlemagne", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "saxons", "label": "Saxons", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "schleswig-holstein", "label": "Schleswig-Holstein", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "elbe", "label": "Elbe", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "franks", "label": "Franks", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "military-alliance", "label": "Military alliance", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "carolingian-empire", "label": "Carolingian Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "danes", "label": "Danes", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "mecklenburg", "label": "Mecklenburg", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "holy-roman-empire", "label": "Holy Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "christianity", "label": "Christianity", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-germany", "label": "Kingdom of Germany", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 789, "year_label": "789 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Charlemagne crosses the Elbe River with a Frankish-Saxon army into Obotrite territory. He subdues the Wiltzes, and reaches the Baltic.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848283#Europe", "title": "789", "revid": 1340848283, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 795, "year_label": "795 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Saxon War: The Slav Obodrites, under their ruler Witzan, attack the northern Saxons in Liuni. He is killed in an ambush and succeeded by his son Drożko (Thrasco), who becomes a Carolingian dux. King Charlemagne leads a Frankish expeditionary force north from Mainz, and marches to the Elbe, where eastern Saxon rebels again surrender.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848647#Europe", "title": "795", "revid": 1340848647, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 798, "year_label": "798 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Bornhöved: King Charlemagne forms an alliance with the Obodrites. Together with Prince Drożko (Thrasco), he defeats the Nordalbian Saxons near the village of Bornhöved (modern-day Neumünster), obliging these 'northerners' to submit and give hostages against their future good behavior. In the coming years they are granted areas of present-day Hamburg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848766#Europe", "title": "798", "revid": 1340848766, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 801, "year_label": "801 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Charlemagne formally cedes Nordalbian territory (modern-day Schleswig-Holstein) to the pagan Obotrites (allies of the Carolingian Empire).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369675421#Europe", "title": "801", "revid": 1369675421, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 802, "year_label": "802 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Pagan Danes invade Obodrite-ruled Schleswig, to take over territory almost emptied by the forcible deportations of the Saxons by emperor Charlemagne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848783#Europe", "title": "802", "revid": 1340848783, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 808, "year_label": "808 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Godfred of the Danes forms an alliance with the Wiltzi and other Wendic tribes, against the pagan but pro-Frankish Abodrites. Godfred builds earthworks (Danevirke) across the isthmus of Schleswig-Holstein, separating Jutland from the northern extent of the Frankish Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848803#Europe", "title": "AD 808", "revid": 1340848803, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 929, "year_label": "929 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 4", "text": "September 4 – Battle of Lenzen: Slavic forces (the Redarii and the Obotrites) are defeated by a Saxon army near the fortified stronghold of Lenzen (modern Germany).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367671440#Europe", "title": "929", "revid": 1367671440, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 955, "year_label": "955 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 16", "text": "October 16 – Battle on the Raxa: Otto I, allied with the Rani tribe, defeats the Obotrite federation, led by Nako and his brother Stoigniew (probably at the Recknitz or Elde rivers) near Mecklenburg. The Elbe Slavs are forced to pay tribute, and accept a peace agreement.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341512718#Europe", "title": "955", "revid": 1341512718, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 983, "year_label": "983 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Great Slav Rising: The Polabian Slavs (Wends), mainly Lutici and Obotrite tribes living east of the Elbe River revolt against Christianity and their subjugation to the German (former East Frankish) realm of the Holy Roman Empire. They invade northern Germany, sacking the cities of Havelberg, Brandenburg and Hamburg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341908613#Europe", "title": "983", "revid": 1341908613, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1147, "year_label": "1147 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June", "text": "June – The Wendish Crusade: An expedition of Crusaders – composed of Germans, Saxons and Danes – expels the Obotrites from Wagria (Schleswig-Holstein). Two Danish fleets led by King Canute V in alliance with co-ruler Sweyn III, ravage the northern coast. The countryside of Mecklenburg and Pommerania is plundered and depopulated with much bloodshed, especially by German forces under Henry the Lion.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362163362#Europe", "title": "1147", "revid": 1362163362, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}]}