Polans (eastern)

The Polans ( ostslaw. Поляне ) or Poljanen were a ostslawischer tribe that lived in the Early Middle Ages in the north central Ukraine on both sides of the Dnieper.

The pole ( j ) anes are described by Nestor as a great and progressive strain. According to Nestor Chronicle, it was the pole ( j ) anes and their leaders Kyj, Kiy and Choriw and their sister Lybed who founded the city of Kiev to 480 AD.

The after 1000 known name Pol ( j ) anes derives from the Slavic word pole, field ' and refers to their more open habitat ( level, field) (see Poland, Polans ). In contrast, came the name of the northern resident Drewlanen who inhabited the dense forests of Polesia of Drewo 'tree' from.

Anes The pole ( j) were one of the main components of the Kievan Rus and later have been merged into the modern East Slavic peoples. A time later, when the eastern Poljanen were no longer mentioned, came to the year 1000 the name of the western Polans to be ancestors of the Poles.