Billung March

The Mark of the Bill Unger was a Margraviate of the East Frankish - German monarchy that should have existed 936-983.

Confines

The actual extent of the marrow of the Bill Unger is unknown. You should have lain between the Elbe and the Baltic Sea and essentially comprises the territory of the later Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania, so that they in the north to the Baltic Sea, to the east by the Duchy of Poland, on the south by the Saxon Ostmark and the west by the dukedom Saxony would have been next. However, Widukind of Corvey she knows as little as Helmold of Bosau.

History

The marrow was formed in the year 936, when Hermann Billung of King Otto I as princeps militiae was entrusted with the border guards of the German kingdom and dominion over the Redarier, Abodrites, Polabs, Wagrians and Zirzipanen.

After the Slavic uprising of 983, the Mark of the Bill Unger was abandoned by the Saxons. The events in this area are described mainly in the Chronica Slavorum of Helmold of Bosau.

• Historical Territory (Mecklenburg- Vorpommern)