The key to recognizing civilizational changes in the basin of the Vistula and Odra rivers in the Early Middle Ages: civitas (from the Bavarian Geographer to Thietmar's Chronicle

Abstract

The chapter traces the changes in the concept of civitas in the area where medieval Poland later originated, in written sources of the early Middle Ages as a starting point for learning about the world of tribes between the Baltic Sea and the Carpathians.

Keywords

• key
• recognizing
• civilizational
• changes
• basin
• Vistula
• Odra
• rivers
• Early
• Middle
• Ages
• civitas
• Bavarian
• Geographer
• Thietmars
• Chronicle